Smaller Demo conference still packs a punch

		March 7, 2009

	A downsized Demo is still a good one Participation at this season's Demo conference was slightly smaller, at just 39 companies, but that doesn't mean the quality was any lower. Most of the new products and services had well-founded business models, and real-life utility. For instance, this year's show brought new Netbooks that have detachable touch-screen displays, new ways to save Web bookmarks across multiple machines, tools for discovering cool Web content, and even new ways to find a date with people who live nearby. That doesn't mean there weren't a few clunkers though. You can catch up on all of Webware's Demo coverage here.  The best and worst of Demo 09  At Demo, it's all about content discovery  Demo preview: Five launches to watch for Josh Lowensohn Associate Editor, Webware.com New on Webware.com Facebook readies new user pages, filtering tools Posted by Josh Lowensohn This week Facebook unveiled changes to its home page that give users much tighter controls over the ever increasing flow of information. Beginning next week, users will get access to a new set of filters that can change the type of content that's shown--as it happens. The company also announced changes to its pages service, which turn things like fan pages into something closer to a user profile.  Read more  Foxmarks becomes Xmarks, does site discovery Posted by Rafe Needleman Foxmarks, the browser bookmark utility, is now known as just Xmarks. The Xmarks plug-in shows you sites similar to the one you're on, based on what other users have bookmarked and where they've filed those bookmarks. The plug-in also gives you additional information in search results, letting you see site popularity and user ratings on your search hits. All roads also, optionally, point the user to the Xmarks site, which has more reviews of and data about sites, and a wiki-like directory of sites.  Read more  Flickr video goes HD, tells time Posted by Josh Lowensohn This week Flickr introduced high-definition video to its service. For now it's limited to paying Pro members only, but Flickr is also allowing its free users to upload two standard-definition videos a month. Along with the bump to HD, Flickr also introduced a clock made up of user videos. It tells you what time it is, as well as showing you videos that are coded with the time of day they were shot.  Read more  Yahoo's Inquisitor search comes to iPhone Posted by Josh Lowensohn On Thursday Yahoo released a mobile version of its Inquisitor search tool for the iPhone. This application is ridiculously fast. Search results stream in without chugging down the iPhone's processor, or slowing down your keystrokes. More importantly, it lets you start typing in a query less than four seconds after launching it, which in my testing was about two seconds faster than Google's voice-powered search app.  Read more  Hulu content returns to Boxee in a different form Posted by Caroline McCarthy Media-center start-up Boxee, which aggregates Web video for television set-top boxes, has launched a new version that restores access to video hub Hulu. The NBC Universal-News Corp. joint venture had pulled its content from Boxee after content partners took issue with it. But it's not really the same: Boxee has brought back Hulu by extending its support for RSS feeds, and is pulling the video content in that way.  Read more  Webware productivity updates Google expands offline calendar to more users Posted by Stephen Shankland Google Calendar users can now manage their schedule even when offline. The feature is available by clicking the "Offline Beta" link in the upper right side of the page. As with offline Gmail, the service uses Google's Gears software to store a copy of the calendar data on a person's computer so it can be accessed while the network is down. Unlike the Gmail version, however, new items can't be created or modified while offline.  Read more  Zoho upgrades Web word processor with good UI Posted by Rafe Needleman Zoho has improved its online word processor, Writer, with a revised user interface and a few new useful features. The interface change is a have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too experiment. The new "MenuTab" UI gives you drop-down choices from the top level of the menu, but you can also press on a top-level menu choice to display an icon bar with identical options. The icon bar is nothing like Microsoft Office 2007's tab bar, but it does work.  Read more    Related Newsletters Stay informed on the tech topics that matter to you most CNET offers a wide variety of newsletters on everything from tech industry news to the latest games and gear. Browse the entire list now. Manage newsletters More Webware  Webware RSS feed  The Webware 100  About Webware.com
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The H news 07/03/2009

The H news 07/03/2009 www.h-online.com Overview of the news from the past 24 hours The H Security news Firefox: most vulnerabilities, but quickly patched Secunia has published its security report for 2008, saying that 115 vulnerabilities were eliminated from Firefox in 2008: more than those found in Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera put together › Read article     Twitter spoofing fix fails in UK and Germany Twitter's claim to have fixed the spoofing vulnerability is found to be untrue in the UK and Germany › Read article     Twitter closes SMS spoofing hole - Updated Twitter has closed a security hole which left accounts open to being hijacked via SMS spoofing › Read article     Vulnerabilities in TYPO3 extensions The TYPO3 developers have reported on three extensions with security vulnerabilities, one of which has now been removed from the TYPO3 extension repository › Read article     Patch Tuesday: Microsoft to close three security vulnerabilities Microsoft has announced that it will release three security updates, one of them critical, on Tuesday the 10th of March › Read article     The H Open Source news Roadmap for OpenSUSE The OpenSUSE project manager has proposed a roadmap for the future versions of OpenSUSE › Read article     Firefox: most vulnerabilities, but quickly patched Secunia has published its security report for 2008, saying that 115 vulnerabilities were eliminated from Firefox in 2008: more than those found in Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera put together › Read article     Free implementation of the VMware cluster file system New open source software enables read access to VMFS volumes created by VMware ESX › Read article     Vulnerabilities in TYPO3 extensions The TYPO3 developers have reported on three extensions with security vulnerabilities, one of which has now been removed from the TYPO3 extension repository › Read article     Kernel Log: Morton questions acceptance of Xen Dom0 code; file systems for SSDs New Xen Dom0 patches are issued, but Andrew Morton asks critically whether accepting extended Xen support into the kernel still makes sense. Theodore Tso spells out in his blog all manner of detail about Ext file systems and SSDs › 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 The H news because you subscribed at our website. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, you can cancel your subscription at http://www.h-online.com/newsletter/manage/news. For more news from the world of technology, subscribe to our other newsletters: Newsletter The H Open Source: All the latest about Free and Open Source software from The H, including news, features, analysis and case studies. www.h-online.com/newsletter/manage/open Newsletter The H 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.h-online.com/newsletter/manage/security Legal notice Publishers: Christian Heise, Ansgar Heise, Christian Persson Editor-in-chief: Dj Walker-Morgan All rights reserved. Any copies or dissemination on any medium, either in part of whole, requires the written consent of the publisher. Copyright (c) 2009 Heise Media UK Ltd.

qa beat draft 1 up, can be used if unchanged

As I always forget to mark it complete on sunday, I'll note that the qa
beat for this week's FWN is now up:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Beats/QualityAssurance

from this point on it's considered usable - I may update it tomorrow or
saturday, or I may not, but if not it can be used as-is.

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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0325 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 seamonkey - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:0325

seamonkey security update for CentOS 4 x86_64:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0325.html

The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to
the mirrors:

x86_64:
updates/x86_64/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-38.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm
updates/x86_64/RPMS/seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-38.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm
updates/x86_64/RPMS/seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-38.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm
updates/x86_64/RPMS/seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-38.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm
updates/x86_64/RPMS/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-38.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm
updates/x86_64/RPMS/seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-38.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm

source:
updates/SRPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-38.el4.centos.src.rpm

You may update your CentOS-3 x86_64 installations by running the command:

yum update seamonkey

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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0325 Critical CentOS 4 i386 seamonkey - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:0325

seamonkey security update for CentOS 4 i386:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0325.html

The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to
the mirrors:

i386:
updates/i386/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-38.el4.centos.i386.rpm
updates/i386/RPMS/seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-38.el4.centos.i386.rpm
updates/i386/RPMS/seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-38.el4.centos.i386.rpm
updates/i386/RPMS/seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-38.el4.centos.i386.rpm
updates/i386/RPMS/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-38.el4.centos.i386.rpm
updates/i386/RPMS/seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-38.el4.centos.i386.rpm

source:
updates/SRPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-38.el4.centos.src.rpm

You may update your CentOS-4 i386 installations by running the command:

yum update seamonkey\*

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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0315 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 firefox - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:0315

firefox security update for CentOS 4 x86_64:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0315.html

The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to
the mirrors:

x86_64:
updates/x86_64/RPMS/firefox-3.0.7-1.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm
updates/x86_64/RPMS/firefox-debuginfo-3.0.7-1.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm

source:
updates/SRPMS/*.src.rpm

You may update your CentOS-3 x86_64 installations by running the command:

yum update firefox

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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0315 Critical CentOS 4 i386 firefox - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:0315

firefox security update for CentOS 4 i386:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0315.html

The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to
the mirrors:

i386:
updates/i386/RPMS/firefox-3.0.7-1.el4.centos.i386.rpm

source:
updates/SRPMS/*.src.rpm

You may update your CentOS-4 i386 installations by running the command:

yum update firefox

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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0313 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) wireshark - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0313

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0313.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

s390:
updates/s390/RPMS/wireshark-1.0.6-EL3.3.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/wireshark-gnome-1.0.6-EL3.3.s390.rpm

s390x:
updates/s390x/RPMS/wireshark-1.0.6-EL3.3.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/wireshark-gnome-1.0.6-EL3.3.s390x.rpm

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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0340 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) libpng - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0340

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0340.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

s390:
updates/s390/RPMS/libpng-1.2.2-29.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/libpng-devel-1.2.2-29.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/libpng10-1.0.13-20.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/libpng10-devel-1.0.13-20.s390.rpm

s390x:
updates/s390x/RPMS/libpng-1.2.2-29.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/libpng-devel-1.2.2-29.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/libpng10-1.0.13-20.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/libpng10-devel-1.0.13-20.s390x.rpm

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[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0325 Critical CentOS 3 s390(x) seamonkey - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0325

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0325.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

s390:
updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.s390.rpm

s390x:
updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.34.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm

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