Todd R. Weiss

Mozilla’s new Firefox 16 Web browser was abruptly removed from the company’s downloads page on Oct. 10 after a serious security vulnerability was discovered a day after its release. The download removal was announced by Michael Coates, director of security assurance for Mozilla, in a post on the Mozilla Security Blog. “Mozilla is aware of […]

Google’s Street View image collection is again expanding its coverage of the world, starting with beautiful and detailed new photographic images of faraway and exotic locales, including Singapore, Taiwan and Macau. The new images make up the largest one-time update so far for Street View, which now doubles the size of the collection and updates […]

Google is unveiling two new enterprise search appliances that will help businesses find needed information more easily amid the huge stores of data that businesses create. The new Google Search Appliance Version 7.0 (GSA 7.0) boxes are the latest in a line of enterprise search products that Google has been offering for more than 10 […]

Jono Bacon, the community manager for Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux, believes in open-source software, but even more, he believes in the ability of open-source communities to help move code forward to drive success for enterprises. By getting their developers more involved in open-source communities, Bacon believes that enterprises will reap far more than they sow by […]

Google is working closely with Samsung to build and market a 10.1-inch, high-end Android Nexus tablet that will be co-branded and sold to consumers, according to published reports. “The 10.1-inch tablet will boast a pixel density that is higher than Apple’s third-generation iPad,” Richard Shim, an analyst at NPD DisplaySearch, told CNET in an Oct. […]

SpaceX’s CRS-1 cargo resupply spacecraft, loaded with fresh materials for astronauts in the International Space Station high above Earth, got off to a successful start Oct. 7 as the vehicle launched from Florida and headed for an Oct. 10 rendezvous with its destination. “We are right where we need to be at this stage in […]

Google is now making its Street Views images library viewable using mobile browsers, adding a big improvement for mobile users who rely on online maps, whether they use Apple’s iOS 6 or Google’s Android. The move, which certainly will assist many Apple iOS 6 users who have been disappointed by the new Apple Maps service […]

Google is again looking at more ways to trim costs in its Motorola Mobility subsidiary, less than two months after the company announced an initial round of 4,000 Motorola layoffs in August. In an Oct. 4 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Google reported that it has “continued to refine its planned restructuring […]

Paying customers of Google Apps just got a big new benefit: Google is now offering phone and email support when users access Google Apps through Google’s Chrome Web browser. “The Chrome browser helps businesses get onto the Web securely and quickly—and today, we’re adding phone and email support for Chrome for Google Apps customers,” wrote […]

A patent-infringement lawsuit filed by Google’s Motorola Mobility unit against Apple in August before the U.S. International Trade Commission has been dropped without comment, according to a published report. “Motorola Mobility reserved the right to refile claims against the iPhone maker, and said there had been no agreement between the two companies,” according to an […]