Apple fixes serious QuickTime flaws

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News: Apple fixes serious QuickTime flaws
News: Nokia adds Skype to N800 tablet
News: Microsoft OOXML spec 'dangerously flawed'
News: Suspense mounts for San Francisco Wi-Fi plan
News: HP designing cheaper servers for Asia
News: 3Com pins hopes on China's low labor costs
News: Motorola sees slowdown in mobile sales
News: Vendors push quad-core desktops on wary users
News: Study: US, Japan have best IT environments
News: Oracle 11g for Linux to debut in August
News: Lawmakers: New wireless rules needed
News: Synchronica evades iPhone corporate e-mail barrier
Q&A: The future of the Web as seen by its creator
ITWhirled: Paris welcomes World Cup ... of video games


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Apple fixes serious QuickTime flaws
With the 7.2 update, users can now view videos on the full screen with the QuickTime player, but the software also contains a number of critical security fixes. In total, Apple has addressed eight security vulnerabilities with the release, which was made public on Wednesday.


Nokia adds Skype to N800 tablet
Nokia Corp. introduced Skype Internet-calling software for its N800 Wi-Fi tablet on Wednesday, providing another alternative to using a cell phone, while a debate in the U.S. over what networks such devices may be able to use in the future heated up.


Microsoft OOXML spec 'dangerously flawed'
Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format specification is fatally flawed where it comes to spreadsheets, with many functions filled with careless errors, according to a critic.


Suspense mounts for San Francisco Wi-Fi plan
Two important votes concerning San Francisco's plan for citywide Wi-Fi that were set for this week have been pushed back, delaying what may be life-or-death decisions on the controversial network.


HP designing cheaper servers for Asia
Hewlett-Packard Co. introduced an entry-level rack server in India on Thursday, part of its strategy to design lower-cost servers specifically for Asian countries.


3Com pins hopes on China's low labor costs
Networking equipment vendor 3Com Corp. is counting on low labor costs in China to help the company earn better margins on its products and compete against rivals like Cisco Systems Inc., the company's chief executive officer said Wednesday.


Motorola sees slowdown in mobile sales
Amid increasing competition in a fickle cell phone market, Motorola Inc. expects to report a loss for its mobile devices business in 2007 and now estimates that second quarter sales will be lower than expected.


Vendors push quad-core desktops on wary users
PC vendors are launching more and more computers with dual-core and quad-core processors, promising users that the expensive machines can juggle more applications at work or play better games at home.


Study: US, Japan have best IT environments
The U.S. and Japan have the top national environments for their IT industries to grow and flourish, including intellectual-property protections and IT infrastructure, according to a study released by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) Wednesday.


Oracle 11g for Linux to debut in August
While Wednesday marked the official unveiling of Oracle Corp.'s 11g database and a look at its new features, pricing and availability information was pretty thin on the ground. All the vendor would confirm is that the Linux version of 11g will ship this quarter, probably in August.


Lawmakers: New wireless rules needed
U.S. consumers should be allowed to take phones along with them when they switch wireless carriers, and spectrum to be auctioned through the U.S. Federal Communications Commission should include rules requiring the winning bidders to sell access to competitors at wholesale rates, some U.S. lawmakers said Wednesday.


Synchronica evades iPhone corporate e-mail barrier
Synchronica has updated its Mobile Gateway 3.0 middleware to let iPhone users synchronize email with Microsoft Exchange, the company said.


Q&A

The future of the Web as seen by its creator
According to Webster's Online Dictionary semantic means "the relationships between symbols and what they represent." Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the World Wide Web in 1989 at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, has used the term to christen the Internet of the future.

In this exclusive interview, he explains his vision of the future Semantic Web, which he says will be much more powerful than anything we have seen before.


ITWHIRLED

Paris welcomes World Cup ... of video games
Video games are moving into the mainstream, and perhaps there's no better indication than the Electronic Sports World Cup final, held in Paris this past weekend. More than 750 players -- both men and women -- competed for $200,000 in prizes in CounterStrike, Quake, World of Warcraft, Pro Evolution Soccer. 5,000 people were expected to turn out to watch the games live, for whatever "live" might mean in this context.