Inspired by this year’s april fools day joke from Opera, [Jason] has made facial gesture recognition actually work. While this may seem like a silly project, it could seriously help some people out. This could be a great accessibility tool for people with motor control limitations.He states that it has some problems right now, most […]

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Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 continue to dominate the enterprise desktop browser market, but Mozilla Firefox is being adopted more readily by the enterprise, according to a new research paper by Forrester. Google Chrome and Apple Safari have also gained some market share as enterprise users look to Web-based tools to provide a broader range of functionality. -
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Internet Explorer 6 and 7 is still in heavy use by the enterprise, but Mozilla
Firefox has been steadily gaining share in the desktop browser market, according
to a new paper by research firm Forrester.
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Chrome and Apple
Safari have also seen adoption by busin…

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Source: eWeek

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Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday confirmed it has submitted a formal response to European Union charges that tying the Internet Explorer browser to its Windows operating system violates antitrust rules.
The Redmond, Wash.-based company can also seek a hearing before EU officials move toward a final decision that can fine a company up to 10 percent of annual global revenue or order it to change the way it does business.
EU regulators allege that adding Internet Explorer to Microsoft’s ubiquitous desktop software was an “artificial distribution advantage which other Web browsers are unable to match.”
Internet Explorer is the world’s most widely used Web browser, overshadowing Mozilla’s Firefox, Google Inc.’s Chrome and Apple Inc.’s Safari.
Microsoft did not issue an official statement on its response to the charges but did say in January — when the EU filed the charge sheet — that it was committed to conducting its business in full compliance with European law.
The commission’s investigation into Microsoft’s Web-surfing software began a year ago, after the Norwegian browser-maker Opera Software ASA filed a complaint, arguing that Microsoft hurt competitors not only by bundling the software, in effect giving away the browser, but also by not following accepted Web standards.
That meant programmers who built Web pages would have to tweak their codes for different browsers. In many cases, they simply designed pages that worked with market-leading Internet Explorer but showed up garbled on competing browsers.
Microsoft has touted its latest browser, Internet Explorer 8, as being fully compliant with Web standards.
At the time of the complaint, Opera said it was asking EU regulators to either force Microsoft to market a version of Windows without the browser, or to include other browsers with Windows.

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Source: CIO Today

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We’ve scoured most of Mozilla’s catalog to find Firefox extensions that simply should not exist. Click through to see our gallery of misses.

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Source: C|Net news.com

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Google commissioned 11 short films about its Chrome browser, ranging from exceedingly slick and excellently-soundtracked (below) to cool stop-action films. They’re all very well-done and variously informative and adorable. [Google Chrome via TechCrunch]

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Kaspersky Online Scanner KAVWebScan.DLL ActiveX Control Format String Vulnerability

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Source: Security Focus

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We are inching closer to a resolution to the European Commission’s latest antitrust complaint against Microsoft. The software giant has submitted its response to the Commission’s current inquiry into whether the bundling of Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system violates antitrust laws.
The European Union’s probe was launched in January 2008 in response to allegations by Norwegian browser maker Opera that IE’s bundling with Windows hurt competition in the browser space. Beyond browser tie-in, the EU is also looking into IE standards compliance as well as a complaint by the European Committee for Interoperable Systems over Office 2007 and the .NET Framework.
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Source: Ars Technica

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Autodesk IDrop remote code execution Active-X related exploit.

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Source: Packet Storm

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Mozilla Corp. late Monday released Firefox 3.5 Beta 4, the latest development preview of the company’s next browser, which has been delayed several times and now is tentatively slated to ship before the end of June.
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Source: IT World

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-765-1 April 28, 2009 firefox-3.0, xulrunner-1.9 vulnerabilities CVE-2009-1313 A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.04 This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. …

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Source: Full Disclosure

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