Wednesday, December 12, 2007

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Mozilla Corp. said it will ship the next preview of the open-source browser before the end of the year. 11-Dec-2007

Microsoft today released the first major update to Office 2007, focusing on collecting existing fixes. 11-Dec-2007

Ask.com today announced a new feature called AskEraser that deletes a user's search activity data from the company's servers. 11-Dec-2007

Astaro is extending its secure VPN support to the Apple iPhone. 11-Dec-2007

French designer Philippe Starck has proclaimed Amazon.com's Kindle e-book reader "almost modern" but "a bit sad." 11-Dec-2007

Cutting costs is a top priority at Hewlett-Packard, with business processes, products, and shared services targeted, says CEO and President Mark Hurd. 11-Dec-2007

Two people have been sentenced for their part in a massive phishing operation busted up by Italian police in July. 11-Dec-2007

Is zero-percent financing really a good deal? What should you look out for? Read our report before signing up for any special HDTV promotions. 11-Dec-2007

Freeverse has released Commander-Europe at War, a new turn-based strategy game set in World War II. 11-Dec-2007

Inexpensive URAM (user-RAM) is now being used in mobile TV chip sets. 11-Dec-2007

Denver International Airport switched its public Wi-Fi offering from paid to free advertising-supported. 11-Dec-2007

Sandisk will sell the Sansa digital music player, mobile phone cards, and USB flash drives in Vietnam. 11-Dec-2007

Controversal site lets security researchers submit vulnerabilities for auction, but says it sells to benign buyers only. 11-Dec-2007

A free-speech group is calling for a complaint to the World Trade Organization, arguing that Chinese censorship hampers U.S. Internet companies. 11-Dec-2007

South Korean officials have launched a corruption probe targeting the Samsung Group, the country's largest conglomerate. 11-Dec-2007

Many partners in Facebook's Beacon are unwilling to address the privacy controversy surrounding the ad program, preferring to wait it out. 11-Dec-2007

Researchers uncovered an attack targeting 'open-recursive' DNS servers that controls where phishing victims go on the Internet. 11-Dec-2007