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 [...]
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is one of the most popular products on CNET Download.com, with 61 million downloads. On Thursday, AVG publisher Grisoft plans to introduce the full version of AVG Anti-Virus 8.0. This upgrade will feature significant changes to the program, integrating the previously stand-alone tools of AVG Anti-Spyware, AVG Anti-Rootkit, and recent Grisoft [...]
Microsoft will shortly make available the test version of Internet Explorer 8, which is set for final release in the first half of this year. The website ActiveWin has published the contents of a beta invitation that said Microsoft is nearing a launch date for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, which will be available for [...]
Microsoft on Tuesday released its February 2008 security bulletin, which includes eleven bulletins, six of which are deemed Critical by Microsoft, while five are deemed Important. One bulletin, suggested last in the advance notice posted last Thursday, failed to be released today. A majority of the critical patches affect Microsoft Office, two critical patches [...]
Microsoft has formally released Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) to manufacturers though it won’t become available to customers until March. The first clients to get their hands on SP1 will be Microsoft’s volume licensing customers.
Windows Vista SP1 apparently incorporates the feedback Microsoft has recieved from customers since the launch of Vista. The release is [...]
Microsoft has released a toolkit to let businesses block service pack updates for Windows XP, Vista and Server 2003. Although service packs — particularly in the case of Vista — are keenly awaited by many users, some businesses prefer to test the packs before upgrading to assure compatibility with existing hardware and applications.
The Windows Service [...]
