MS Opens Source Code To Inspire Trust
News Linux and other Unix-like systems had a major flaw in the WU-FTP server, a popular program for hosting files for downloading. The component -- some thousands of lines of source code -- is the basic foundation of the security proposed in Microsoft's...
[June 26, 2002, 11:10]
Indian OpenOffice Rollout Picks Up Pace
News The organisation initially planned to distribute around 3.5 million copies of each CD, but it claims that demand for the CD has been less than expected as people are often sharing the CD or downloading the software instead.
[November 17, 2005, 16:00]
Sun Aims At Peer-to-peer Search With Acquisition
News In the peer-to-peer world, any machine could upload or download information to or from another, as opposed to the more rigidly hierarchical model of individual computers downloading information from dedicated Web servers.
[March 7, 2001, 9:42]
Morpheus Shuts Out Users
News According to Download.com, which keeps a count of people downloading the software, Morpheus has been downloaded more than 51 million times. In a statement, StreamCast blamed Kazaa, another file-swapping company that had provided the basic software...
[February 27, 2002, 12:09]
SuSE Seeks Developers
News Where Fedora is available chiefly by downloading multiple large CD images, Novell plans to distribute SuSE Linux CDs in magazines, at trade shows and meetings, and possibly by sending them to those who just ask.
[August 3, 2005, 8:55]
Open Source Foundation Of Universal Mobile Torrents
Blog As UMTs evolve, all handsets that employ them will be at increased risk of downloading malicious content. Open Source Foundation of Universal Mobile Torrents Though mobile torrents face a few unique barriers of entry, the migration towards open...
[November 29, 2007, 10:40]
Firefox Gnaws Further Into IE's Lead
News This time around, the company said many people are not only downloading Firefox, they're sticking with it and using it. Mozilla, an open source software foundation formed by Netscape, launched Firefox 1.0 in November, after recording more than 8...
[January 24, 2005, 8:35]
Opera Adds BitTorrent Functionality
News BitTorrent has been on our radar for some while, and when we looked at the protocol, we found [it] was a very good way of downloading files," said Christen Krogh, Opera vice president of engineering. Rather than drawing files solely from one source...
[July 8, 2005, 9:45]
