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11 December 2008

heise online news 11/12/2008


heise online news 11/12/2008
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JetBrains Meta Programming System aids the creation of domain-specific languages

Software vendor JetBrains has presented the beta version of a new development environment that allows users to create their own programming languages and then create programs in them

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Amarok 2.0 audio player for Linux released

After a two year development period, the programming team behind the popular KDE audio player have released Amarok version 2.0. As it's a complete rewrite for the new KDE 4 desktop, many of the functions from the previous version are absent

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Chrome is ready for prime-time, says Google exec

Google's Chrome web browser will hit version 1.0 next month, probably in order to facilitate OEM bundling deals

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Alfresco and Joomla present CMIS interface

Alfresco and Joomlatools have presented an interface based on the standard for Content Management Interoperability Services. Alfresco:Joomla! allows users to access the Alfresco CMS via Joomla

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Black Duck takes on Open Source Myths

Black Duck Software have analysed their database of 170,000 open source projects to "bust some myths" about open source

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Sugar Labs joins the Software Freedom Conservancy

Sugar Labs moves under the supporting umbrella of the Software Freedom Conservancy

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Email client Thunderbird 3 Beta 1 available

The new version of the email program adds a host of detailed improvements, such as background IMAP message downloading, tabs in the inbox and integration with external address books

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Sun closes "network.com" grid computing service to new customers

Sun has placed a holding page on the front of its network.com utility computing site, but the company is planning to relaunch it with a larger range of new services and facilities

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Security vulnerability in GNOME desktop VNC client

The Vinagre VNC client contains a format string vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers operating manipulated VNC servers to inject malicious code onto users' systems

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Jaspersoft updates its free Business Intelligence Suite

Version 3.1 of the open source BI suite adds new features - particularly for visualisation.

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VLC Media Player binaries updated to fix vulnerability

The VideoLAN project release VLC 0.9.8a binaries for Windows and Mac OS X, closing a previously reported vulnerability

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Open Handset Alliance gets 14 new members

The Open Handset Alliance has just announced 14 new members, including Sony Ericsson, Vodafone, Toshiba, ARM and Garmin

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Third Zero Day exploit appears

Zero day exploits, like buses, come in threes, and a third exploit, this time of Wordpad, has turned up after Patch Tuesday

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IWF lift Wikipedia ban

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has removed Wikipedia from its filter list after reconsidering the ban caused by an image appearing in an article about the Scorpions Virgin Killer album

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Two new zero-day exploits dent Microsoft's Patch Tuesday

Several Windows components, the Windows Vista search feature, Word, Excel, Internet Explorer and Visual Basic are updated, but the updates are overshadowed by two zero-day exploits for IE7 and SQL Server 2000

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