More than 1 in 10 Mozilla bug finders turn down cash reward

From InfoWorld: The open source Mozilla project has been offering cash bounties for security bugs for six years now, but often bug finders simply turn down the cash.

Between 10 percent and 15 percent of the serious security bugs reported since Mozilla launched its bug bounty program...

Droid X to Get Froyo in September, EVO 4G Leaked ROM Fix Available

From DailyTech: Earlier this week, analysts announced that Android OS is now the smartphone market leader, despite critics charges that the ubiquitous operating system is too fragmented for consumers to stick with it. This fragmentation is evident in today's Android news.

First, the...

Acer Debuts Dualboot Android/XP Netbook at $300

From Tom's Hardware: Dual-booting netbooks aren’t new. In fact, we've seen quite a few of Linux/Windows ultra portables over the last couple of years. However, with so few Android/Windows netbooks around, the idea has never really gotten old for us and Acer is offering a price that's...

WSJ: iPhone with Wi-Fi lands in China next week

From CNET News.com: China Unicom will start selling Apple's iPhone with Wi-Fi capability next week, according to a report Thursday in The Wall Street Journal.

The report cites an unnamed China Unicom official.

The iPhone went on sale in China in October, but with 3G cellular...

Microsoft sets stage for IE9 beta

From InfoWorld: Microsoft has updated its bare-bones preview of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) for the last time, saying that the next release would be a beta build.

Although Microsoft hasn't named a release date for IE9's beta, the six-to-eight week stretch between each Platform Preview...

Google Wave Is Dead: Now What?

From PC World: While very few of you may be shedding tears over the demise of Google Wave, or even knew what it was, we probably haven't seen the last of this service. The search giant says the technology behind its ill-fated collaboration tool will live on in new products that have...

Logitech tips new G-Series PC gaming peripherals

From CNET News.com: Logitech's G-Series gets three new member this month, by way of a new mouse, a new keyboard, and a new gaming headset. None of them is cheap. The most affordable product, the Gaming Mouse G700, coming in lowest at $99. On the other side of the price bracket, the...

Intel has broad smartphone strategy

From CNET News.com: Intel plans to offer a broad selection of silicon technologies for smartphones, as it seeks to grab a part of German chipmaker Infineon.

Intel is on a mission: the world's largest chipmaker is virtually absent in one of the hottest digital device markets. And...

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