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Google launches beta version of its open source browser
– Google is launching a beta version of its own Web browser on
Tuesday in more than 100 countries, the company announced Monday in
a blog posting. The open-source browser, called Chrome, first appeared
on an unofficial Google blog in the form of a comic book. "As you may
have read in the blogosphere, we hit 'send' a bit early on a comic
book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome," the
company said in the official announcement that appeared late Monday
afternoon after the Internet began buzzing about the comic-book site.
The blog posting was by Sundar Pichai, vice president of product
management, and Linus Upson, engineering director.
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Sun Upgrades Desktop Virtual Machine, Gains Traction On Macs
– Sun has released the second version of its xVM VirtualBox open source
desktop virtualization software and claims it is finding traction for
its use among Apple Macintosh users.
VirtualBox enables a developer to develop code on a Mac, a Windows,
Linux or Solaris machine and then run it in a virtual machine
that mimics its target environment. Sun acquired VirtualBox as
open source code when it bought Innotek GmbH, a German desktop
virtualization firm, in February.
The code is available for download at www.virtualbox.org and
is gaining ground as an alternative to commercial products,
such as Parallels' Parallels Desktop for the Mac or VMware's
Fusion, said Steve Wilson, VP of xVM in Sun's software group.
"VirtualBox has deep integration with the Mac operating
system's approach to networking," Wilson said. "We've seen
increasing large traction among Mac users," he added.
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E-mail notice was sent 5minutes prior to Delhi explosions
– An e-mail claiming responsibility for the bomb blasts in Delhi on
Saturday was sent five minutes prior to the actual explosions, media
organizations said. The e-mail, sent by a poster claiming to be from
the Indian Mujahideen, said that Delhi was about to be hit with blasts,
and the militant organization would strike other locations in India.
The e-mail, which was sent to news organizations in India including
Zee News, was sent from a Yahoo e-mail account that was traced back
to a Mumbai address. More bombs were being defused, according to
media reports.
India has recently witnessed a spate of serial bomb blasts that has put the country
and IT industry in a state of alert. The Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for
the earlier Ahmedabad blasts five minutes prior to the 21 serial bomb blasts that rocked
the city. The e-mail address was ultimately tracked down to a hacked Wi-Fi account of
Kenneth Haywood, a U.S. executive working for a firm in Mumbai. Feeling the heat of
being at the center of an intense investigation by India's authorities, Haywood fled
for the U.S. and returned recently after his name was cleared.
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Wireless LAN standard to cut power use
– The upcoming 802.11v standard will lower power consumption
in wireless LANs, according to Matthew Gast, principal engineer
at Trapeze Networks.
Features include a Wireless Network Management Sleep Mode, improvement
on base 802.11 power savings and longer power-off times for 802.11 radios.
Quantifying power savings is hard, because it depends on application characteristics,
according to Gast, who talked about the standard during a panel discussion at New York trade show on Friday.
"Applications that can sleep for extensive periods of time, such as a Wi-Fi phone that is on-hook most of the time, will see the greatest savings," he said via e-mail.
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Microsoft amassing high-performance server software attack
– Microsoft has built a strategy around the planned early-November
release of its high-performance computing server that it hopes will be
the catalyst to deliver massive computing power for future applications.
The strategy encompasses Microsoft applying its typical mantra of "simplifying
computing" to the costly and often complex high-performance computing world
in the form of its Windows HPC Server 2008 surrounded by Microsoft's collection
of applications, management wares, development tools, and independent software
vendor community.
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