by Jonathan Seff Mar 10, 2009
Adobe on Tuesday fixed a critical security vulnerability in its Acrobat 9 and Reader 9 applications, which the company said "would cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system." The bug was first reported in late February, and affects Adobe Reader 7 and 8, and Acrobat 7 and 8, as well. Adobe plans to make updates available for those earlier software versions by March 18. In addition to the security hole, the updates also address issues with 3-D, forms, hosted services, portfolios, and document security and digital signatures.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Korea Fair Trade Commission rules against Intel
Guilty of bullying AMD
By Sylvie Barak, 10 March 2009
THE AMERICAN ANTITRUST Institute has taken a crash course in Korean, translating chunks of a 133 page ruling which says Intel abused its market dominance through the use of rebates, bullying customers into choosing its chips over rival AMD's. Apparently the Korea Fair Trade Commission has found Intel guilty as charged for "unfairly excluding competitive enterprisers" and harming customer interests using rebates in a carrot and stick approach to steer business away from Intel's only (and much smaller) competitor, AMD, in violation of the Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act. Intel apparently used the dirty trick of selling its wares at "unreasonably low prices" and buying goods or services at unreasonably high prices in order to have its way, something so uncharacteristic (*cough*, NOT) it has us reeling in shock and disbelief. Samsung was one of the firms named in the suit as having been bullied into choosing Intel CPUs over AMD's back in 2002. Apparently, Intel "continuously requested" Samsung stop buying from its competitors, and when the word "please" didn't work, Intel decided to get abusive, significantly reducing its volume of rebates to the electronics giant in the first and second quarter of 2002. Intel then asked again. With a little ‘aggressive' tone on the "please" no doubt.
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By Sylvie Barak, 10 March 2009
THE AMERICAN ANTITRUST Institute has taken a crash course in Korean, translating chunks of a 133 page ruling which says Intel abused its market dominance through the use of rebates, bullying customers into choosing its chips over rival AMD's. Apparently the Korea Fair Trade Commission has found Intel guilty as charged for "unfairly excluding competitive enterprisers" and harming customer interests using rebates in a carrot and stick approach to steer business away from Intel's only (and much smaller) competitor, AMD, in violation of the Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act. Intel apparently used the dirty trick of selling its wares at "unreasonably low prices" and buying goods or services at unreasonably high prices in order to have its way, something so uncharacteristic (*cough*, NOT) it has us reeling in shock and disbelief. Samsung was one of the firms named in the suit as having been bullied into choosing Intel CPUs over AMD's back in 2002. Apparently, Intel "continuously requested" Samsung stop buying from its competitors, and when the word "please" didn't work, Intel decided to get abusive, significantly reducing its volume of rebates to the electronics giant in the first and second quarter of 2002. Intel then asked again. With a little ‘aggressive' tone on the "please" no doubt.
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IE 8: End of the Road for Internet Explorer?
Dropping IE in favor of a newer rendering engine may be not be as easy as it seems.
By Randall C. Kennedy, Mar 10, 2009
IE8 is the last version of the Internet Explorer Web browser. At least, that's what I'm hearing through the grapevine. It seems that Microsoft is preparing to throw in the towel on its Internet Explorer engine once and for all. And just what will be its replacement? I'm getting conflicting stories on that one. Some are still claiming that Microsoft will go with WebKit, which, thanks to the popularity of Apple's Safari browser and also Google's Chrome, is rapidly becoming a de facto standard for all non-IE and non-Firefox implementations. Others insist that that the whole WebKit story is merely a feint and that Microsoft will in fact be adopting a brand-new engine coming out of its Microsoft Research division. Dubbed "Gazelle," this new engine will supposedly be more secure than Firefox or even Chrome, making copious use of sandboxing to keep its myriad plug-ins isolated and the overall browser process model protected.
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By Randall C. Kennedy, Mar 10, 2009
IE8 is the last version of the Internet Explorer Web browser. At least, that's what I'm hearing through the grapevine. It seems that Microsoft is preparing to throw in the towel on its Internet Explorer engine once and for all. And just what will be its replacement? I'm getting conflicting stories on that one. Some are still claiming that Microsoft will go with WebKit, which, thanks to the popularity of Apple's Safari browser and also Google's Chrome, is rapidly becoming a de facto standard for all non-IE and non-Firefox implementations. Others insist that that the whole WebKit story is merely a feint and that Microsoft will in fact be adopting a brand-new engine coming out of its Microsoft Research division. Dubbed "Gazelle," this new engine will supposedly be more secure than Firefox or even Chrome, making copious use of sandboxing to keep its myriad plug-ins isolated and the overall browser process model protected.
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