heise online news 09/12/2008

heise online news 09/12/2008 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news Web app SugarCRM links in the rest of the social web Open source CRM app offers new modules and API to link in information from other sites, including social networks such as LinkedIn › Read article     Open World Forum presents open source roadmap until 2020 The "2020 FLOSS Roadmap", a manifesto compiled by an international group of authors, explores the challenges and opportunities for free software in the coming twelve years › Read article     Blocking row over Scorpions cover escalates The Guardian newspaper claims Amazon could be blocked in the UK over Christmas for carrying images from a Scorpions album cover deemed as "child pornography" › Read article     Mozilla pulls anti-phishing feature from Firefox 2 The last version of Firefox 2 to be released before it is discontinued will not contain the anti-phishing feature; Google has asked Mozilla to remove it › Read article     Evolving DNS malware A variation of an old trojan has been found in the wild that installs a rouge DHCP server on local networks. This subverts DNS lookups to point to malicious servers, even for uninfected machines › Read article     Giving the gift of connectivity Seekbroadband.com has an original Christmas present idea - a pay-as-you-go mobile broadband dongle › Read article     Hibernate Search 3.1.0 introduced The new version of the Hibernate persistence framework's search engine is designed to provide better performance and increased stability › Read article     TheCloudPlayer, an open sourced music player for the web A new open source, browser based music player delivers music from SoundCloud. It has a sleekly styled UI and uses Google AppEngine behind the scenes › Read article     PHP 5.2.7 withdrawn PHP 5.2.7 is removed from distribution and the developers recommend going back to PHP 5.2.6 › Read article     Wikipedia blocks UK ISP censorship filters The anti child pornography measures used by a number of UK ISPs, combined with Wikipedia's own anti-vandalism measures, resulted in a complete loss of access to Wikipedia for some users › Read article     Google updates Android tools An update to the Android SDK blocks applications using Java reflection from probing private and protected methods › Read article     Jetty moving to the Eclipse Foundation? Could the Eclipse Foundation be the new home for the Java based Jetty web server and servlet container? A proposal by Jetty's creator suggests it could › Read article     This newsletter is sent to in a multipart format. If you want to read it as plain text, you will have to change the display mode of your e-mail program. You are receiving heise online news because you subscribed at our website. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, you can cancel your subscription at http://www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/news. For more news from the world of technology, subscribe to our other newsletters: Newsletter heise open source: All the latest about Free and Open Source software from heise online, including news, features, analysis and case studies. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/open Newsletter heise Security: IT security news and alerts to keep your systems secure, with features giving an in-depth look at the world of IT security. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/security Newsletter heise networks features: In-depth articles, tools and techniques for networking and communications. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/networks Legal notice Publishers: Christian Heise, Ansgar Heise, Christian Persson Editor-in-chief: Jonathan Bennett All rights reserved. Any copies or dissemination on any medium, either in part of whole, requires the written consent of the publisher. Copyright (c) 2008 Heise Media UK Ltd.