The Mozilla Foundation has released to the world the Firefox browser and Thunderbird mail client and the mass of other open source programs. By developing and promoting their projects, the organization can always count on a large developer community volunteers. And just to think about them prepared ranging substantially larger project called Drumbeat. It involves nothing less than how to create "a better Internet."

According to the information the FBI was given each day takes a magnifying glass huge number of people suspected of terrorist activity. The "Washington Post" wrote the day before the service Secrecy News that between March 2008 and March 2009, the U.S. Secret Service reported a daily average of 1600 suspicious to the police anti-terrorism record. According to the act, which the FBI sent in September, the Senate justice committee, put these people in the database has been supported by sufficient evidence.

The company ESET has released a list of hazards that often infect users' computers in October this year. The first three items took risks, which invariably led to this year's rankings, and only in October were the cause of almost 24% of all detected infections.

Cyber criminals use high interest test version of the Google wave. In-mailing invitations promising access to applications and the ability to seek profits from the sale of the program, and thus try to take the distribution of malicious programs. Attack primarily at risk are people who wish to get into the Google wave.

Yahoo! transferred to the foundation the Apache Software Foundation open source version of the firmware server service (server traffic). High-performance server for processing in the cloud (cloud computing) first goes to the Apache Incubator, a kind of hatchery projects, in which open source initiatives are reviewed before final approval as an Apache project.

Google Group has already published some time ago, open source and free tool Google Prototype Wave Federation Server that allows you start the wave of users on servers. The software is based on Java and can now connect to the server Wave sandbox, which is used to test sandbox. But is not communicating with the illustrative version of the Wave (Preview) tested by a limited number of users.

During a conference for developers Innovate 2009 PayPal introduced PayPal next development platform X and converted new API, as well as a special set of tools for making the payments from the mobile applications. In July, PayPal announced that access Adaptive API Payments to other operators. This tool allows developers to integrate PayPal system to their own applications independent of whether you want to use social networking or mobile phones.

Sun released the Java 6 Update 17, which among other fixes several security bugs. These include various types of buffer overflow vulnerabilities and exceeded the scope of integers, provoked by an appropriately crafted audio and video files. Thanks to a Java applet or Java Web Start programs may have higher access privileges to the system, and then infect it.

Only the operating system makes a useful electronic machine, which can act on the games and programs. And so it opens a browser window to the Internet, allowing viewing messages or social networking sites. Since the mid-eighties, wearable personal computer has replaced the powerful machine, browser and operating system are under the control of virtually one company - Microsoft.

Red Bend Software sues Google for patent infringement. The cause of the dispute is the code contained in the mechanism of Courgette, which uses Google's open source developed an algorithm that reduces the size of transmitted data during the update Chrome. According to Red Bend Software published in July mechanism Courgette code violates the patent 6,546,552 granted to the company in 2003, the method of generation of compact difference between the old program and its new version (A method for generating a compact difference result between an old program and a new program). Red Bend makes software for mobile operators that allows them to transfer the compressed update cells. According to industry analysts Ovum company has 64 percent market share in providing the firmware FOTA (Firmware Over The Air).The patent dispute relating to Google's Courgette