Microsoft has said it is delaying the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 because of a newly uncovered glitch.

The software maker said there is a “compatibility issue” between the XP service pack and Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System, a retail chain management program for SMEs. Microsoft advised those running Microsoft Dynamics RMS to not [...]

Microsoftissued eight security fixes for its software in its regular Patch Tuesday update. Five of the eight patches, which fixed 10 security vulnerabilities, were rated as critical, Microsoft’s most severe rating. The affected software ranged from the Windows operating system to Microsoft Office. Meanwhile, the remaining three patches were rated as important, fixing flaws in [...]

Mozilla released its fifth beta version of Firefox 3 for Windows and the Mac on Wednesday, bringing a handful of improvements in ease of use to the open-source Web browser.
Overall, Firefox 3 beta 5 includes 750 changes from the previous beta, focusing on enhanced stability, Web site compatibility, and platform and user-interface improvements.
In [...]

Adobe Systems released a new server today for putting restrictions on content delivered from its Adobe Flash Media Server. Called Adobe Flash Media Rights Management Server, the software is aimed at TV and movie producers who want more fine-grained control over how users view videos. A content producer could let a user view a [...]

Google has released a new Windows-only app that syncs your Google Calendar data to and from your Microsoft Outlook calendar. The new two-way syncing in Google Calendar Sync, should be welcome news for business users and anyone else tied to Outlook.It will be handy for those with Windows Mobile devices, since there’s now an [...]

The fourth beta of the Firefox 3.0 browser was released Monday and includes more than 900 enhancements over the previous beta, Mozilla announced. The creator of the open source browser said the new beta includes improvements to performance and memory usage, fixes for stability and platform-specific enhancements.
Some of the enhancements include a new download manager [...]

Microsoft’s Silverlight browser plug-in will be bringing videos and other rich media to Nokia smartphones later this year. They are to announce that Microsoft will write a version of Silverlight for Nokia’s Series 60 (S60) smartphone software that runs on Symbian OS. The software, which will be available later this year, will also run on [...]