Adobe’s chief executive has said web-based applications will take over from traditional desktop apps in a decade. Bruce Chizen warned that it would take that long for the industry to learn how to monetise online software.
“The desktop is a powerful, powerful machine in which to run applications. Broadband, as quick as it gets, is still going to have some limitations in the short term,” said Chizen at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
Chizen said desktop software is still a customer preference but that this would change over time, Reuters reports. When asked if the change would come within five or 10 years, he said it would almost certainly be closer to the latter. Read the rest of this entry »
Instantbird is the newest project from the Mozilla folks, and it’s a multi-client chat program that allows you to connect to several of the mainstream instant messaging services such as AOL, MSN, and Yahoo!. The project is still in early beta (version .1 beta), but the adventurous user can strike out and attempt to compile a copy of their own. That’s right, I said compile. Read the rest of this entry »
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in both Opera and Firefox, but don’t worry, an upgrade will take care of them.
According to Secunia, an update to Opera 9.24 will be needed to solve the three known issues affecting all prior versions. First of all, Opera may launch external email or newsgroup clients incorrectly, thus allowing the execution of arbitrary commands when visiting malicious sites. Still, this flaw won’t affect users unless they had already configured an external email or newsgroup client. Read the rest of this entry »
