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News: Mozilla rushes out second Firefox patch this month
News: Sharp planning major LCD, solar plant in Japan
News: Google Analytics in data blackout since Saturday
News: Merger costs dog Alcatel-Lucent in Q2
News: Web-based development platform goes open source
News: SF Wi-Fi wait grows
News: Symantec's 'Dark Vision' mines carder sites
News: Microsoft comments support reports of new Zunes
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Mozilla rushes out second Firefox patch this month
Mozilla Corp. has patched a pair of nasty flaws in its Firefox browser, two weeks after security researchers first started posting code that showed how the flaws could be exploited in attacks.

Sharp planning major LCD, solar plant in Japan
Sharp Corp. is to build an LCD (liquid crystal display) manufacturing plant in west Japan that is likely to be the most advanced of its kind when it begins production.

Google Analytics in data blackout since Saturday
Google Inc.'s Analytics service stopped delivering data to users on Saturday, another in a series of recent performance and availability problems affecting this popular Web site traffic-monitoring service.

Merger costs dog Alcatel-Lucent in Q2
Merger costs, flat sales and a strong euro contributed to a second-quarter net loss at Alcatel-Lucent SA.

Web-based development platform goes open source
Australian software company Once Technologies has released what it claims is the first browser-based Web 2.0 development platform as an open source project.

SF Wi-Fi wait grows
The next crucial votes on San Francisco's municipal Wi-Fi proposal will be delayed until next month while chosen contractor EarthLink Inc. becomes increasingly skittish about building wireless networks for cities.

Symantec's 'Dark Vision' mines carder sites
Researchers at Symantec Corp. have developed a system that mines underground Web sites and chat rooms for sensitive information that is being sold.

Microsoft comments support reports of new Zunes
Microsoft Corp. hasn't divulged detailed plans for the next release of its Zune music player, but a company executive last week offered hints that seem to support reports that a flash memory-based Zune and 80-gigabyte device could be in the works.


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