According to the Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team Blog, five products were updated yesterday by Adobe. Those products include Shockwave Player, Flash Media Server, Flash Player, Photoshop CS5, and RoboHelp. With four critical severity ratings and one important severity, it is important to read the security bulletins for any products on your network. … [Read more...]
Cry Baby Android [comic]
This Joy of Tech comic picks on Android a little bit following Google's whining about software patents. … [Read more...]
Google Takes on Software Patents In Its Latest Blog Post
NPR has covered software patents and the topic is in the news daily. Proving that point today, Google wrote about software patents and the current on-going patent wars that are plaguing the Google Android system in When patents attack Android. Google is airing out the dirty laundry and spilling the beans that Microsoft and Apple, after forming a group to outbid Google for … [Read more...]
Launched Today, Adobe Edge is a WYSIWYG for Animated HTML5
Adobe isn't abandoning Adobe Flash any time soon but that doesn't mean they can't grab hold of the next big thing either, which in this case would be HTML 5. From the Adobe Labs, they're providing Adobe Edge in its preview form until it launches a full product later on. Adobe® Edge is a new web motion and interaction design tool that allows designers to bring animated content … [Read more...]
Java 7.0 Now Available For Download
Oracle has announced that Java 7 is available for download. This is mostly news for developers because the new Java 7 features obviously aren't implemented in code that you're likely to encounter for a while. There are some new networking and security features listed briefly but the bigger new features seem to be aimed toward developers. Java SE 7 delivers: Language changes … [Read more...]