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Firefox Furnishes Further Flaw Fixes

Mozilla released a new version of its Firefox Web browser Monday which includes fixes for two vulnerabilities disclosed by Secunia, an Internet security firm, earlier this month. The two flaws, which involved conflicts with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, kicked off a round of finger pointing as both...

Laptop Project Builds Support, Software Options

The One Laptop Per Child Project, an effort spearheaded by MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte aimed at delivering functional, educational laptop computers to children in developing nations, is looking to wealthier nations to buy its computers for those in need. The project, which looks to rely on ine...

Happy Past Year for Open-Source Community

As revelers wish each other happy New Year this weekend, members of the open-source community will be reveling in events from the past year -- a year that saw their movement make significant strides in strengthening its position on the technology landscape. "This year we saw a lot of CIOs and a lot ...

Is Microsoft Mellowing Toward Open Source?

A recent blog posting by a Microsoft project manager spawned a blizzard of discussion on one of the Internet's major tech forums and generated speculation that Microsoft may be ready to improve its relations with the open-source community. Josh Ledgard, a program manager for Microsoft's Visual Studi...

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