Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google announced that latest stable version 6.0 is of its Chrome browser is now available. The first stable Windows version of Chrome was first released on December 11, 2008. Several months earlier, Google released a large portion of Chrome's source code, including its V8 JavaScript engine, as an open source project entitled [...]
Houston (ip-192.com): Hynix Semiconductor Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. agreed to develop a new kind of universal memory dubbed “ReRam” or Resistive Random Access Memory to eventually replace DRAM or dynamic random access memory and flash memory. ReRam is based on a technology known as memory resistor, or memristor, that consists of passive two-terminal circuit elements [...]
Cambridge (ip-192.com): A "dislike" button is the latest scam that targets Facebook users. If they download the program, they unknowingly open a backdoor that enables a rogue application to access their profile page and private information stored on Facebook. The application is advertised with the message "Download the official dislike button now." When users click [...]
Redwood Shores (ip-192.com): Oracle seems to plan to end the OpenSolaris project, according to an internal memo. "All of Oracle’s efforts on binary distributions of Solaris technology will be focused on Solaris 11," the memo says. "We will not release any other binary distributions, such as nightly or bi-weekly builds of Solaris binaries, or an [...]
Redwood Shores (ip-192.com): In a lawsuit filed against Google, Oracle claims that the Android operating system infringes Oracles patents and copyrights related to Java. The Java platform provides a system for developing application software and deploying it in a cross-platform environment. Java was acquired in 2009 by Oracle as part of the $5.6 billion Sun [...]
San Francisco (ip-192.com): A new Open Compliance Program (OPC) unveiled by the Linux Foundation should help developers to ensure compliance and due diligence. The software includes an assessment checklist, software tools to monitor open source software usage, and specialized training programs. "As Linux has proliferated up and down the product supply chain, so has the [...]
