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  • Apple sits on critical Mac bug for 7 months (and counting)

    Unix flaw fixed in OpenBSD, not OS X

    Researchers have disclosed a critical vulnerability in the latest version of Mac OS X that they say Apple has sat on for almost seven months without fixing. The buffer overflow flaw could be exploited by attackers to remotely execute malicious code, and virtually all Apple devices - including Mac computers and servers, iPhones …

    Security 12 Jan 00:14

  • Microsoft Office 2007 migration aches foreshadow 2010

    Pain now, pain later

    It has been predicted Microsoft's Office 2010 will cause migration headaches, but for some, the pain is already here. Customers speaking with The Reg are experiencing major delays in their move from Office 2003 to 2007, more than three years after Microsoft released the latest version of its suite. Problems include having to …

    Channel Register 12 Jan 00:36

  • Google leaks small biz stats to random people

    Traffic data snafu blamed on 'human error'

    Google has inadvertently leaked web traffic data for multiple small businesses to random third-parties across the web. On January 7, web marketing consultant David Dalka received an email from Google that included traffic stats from its Local Business Center. This is a portal where small businesses can add themselves to Google …

    Small Biz 12 Jan 07:01

  • Say hello to Maxell-branded hard drives

    Are you sitting comfortably?

    Hitachi Maxell is turning itself into an external hard drive supplier with a GEN branded line of products. Maxell is best known for supplying batteries and storage media. It's now extending its brand to cover USB-connected hard drives for the SOHO and consumer markets. The loss-making Maxell company was a partially-owned …

    Storage 12 Jan 07:02

  • Twitter hunts app-making, security-boosting techies

    Can you apply in less than 140 characters?

    Twitter is looking to hire engineers that will enable it to develop revenue-generating services and improve its security. The popular micro-blogging site is advertising for 27 positions which, if filed, would expand its headcount by approximately 20 per cent. Engineering and software developer functions account for around 20 …

    Security 12 Jan 07:02

  • Microsoft offers Oracle-phobes MySQL migration tool

    Data play

    In the past, Microsoft has worked hard to improve the Window performance of open-source database MySQL, hoping to stop the deployment drain from Windows to Linux. But now, Microsoft has released early software to help bring MySQL users into the closed-source company's database fold. The offer means Microsoft is joining other …

    Applications 12 Jan 07:02

  • TVonics DTR-HV250 DVR

    Review Freeview+ recorder for yer folks

    British Freeview box maker TVonics currently eschews the dark arts of HDTV or satellite content and seems content to plough its own furrow providing well made and easy to use Freeview and Freeview+ devices. This equipment is aimed more at the man in the street or tech fanatic's mum, than tech fanatics themselves. Easy does it …

    Reg Hardware 12 Jan 08:02

  • Brown offers free laptops to deprived UK schoolkids

    Home Access scheme gets national rollout

    Free laptops with broadband access will be dished out to more than a quarter of a million UK households to help kids from cash-strapped families do better in exams, said Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday. "We want every family to become a broadband family, and we want every home linked to a school. For those finding it …

    PCs & Chips 12 Jan 08:02

  • Naked scans: Net cries nude-o-geddon

    If gov says 'pants to terrorism', will you feel the breeze?

    The proliferation of airport body scanners will spark a flurry of low-grade porn, internet conspiracy theorists claimed last week. But officials at Manchester Airport, where full body scanning is already due to be tested, have been quick to dismiss this as urban myth. Who to ignore? A number of websites have suggested it is a …

    Policing 12 Jan 09:02

  • Small biz sees signs of recession ending

    Can you tell what it is yet?

    Small business group the British Chamber of Commerce sees some signs of the recession ending, but warns the recovery is still a fragile beast. The group's quarterly survey found some improvements, especially in manufacturing, but warned that progress was weaker than it was in the third quarter of 2009. The BCC believes the UK …

    Small Biz 12 Jan 09:05

  • Delivering and deploying software for virtualisation

    Lab Developers, now it’s your turn

    To date, much of the outside attention on virtualisation has fallen on the infrastructure side of the equation – that is, what’s the impact of adding such a software layer to physical machines etc. etc. But, as we discussed in our recent webcast, as the thinking moves beyond the pilot phase for virtualisation, then the spotlight …

    Virtualisation Lab 12 Jan 10:16

  • Emulex posts higher than expected results...

    ...on the P&L and in the lab

    Emulex has announced preliminary results almost 20 per cent higher than expected just as testers confirmed its FCoE adapter goes three times as fast as QLogic's. Preliminary results for Emulex's second fiscal 2010 quarter show net revenues of $107m - $108m, significantly higher than the guidance of $88m - $92m. It gets Emulex …

    Storage 12 Jan 10:23

  • Nokia gets giggy with it

    Gig Finder app shows you to the shows

    Nokia's Beta Labs has released "Gig Finder", an application for S60 users that works out where you are and what music is playing locally. The application runs on 5th-edition devices and provides for searching by genre, artist, venue and so forth - the results being filtered for local venues along with links to purchase tickets …

    Mobile 12 Jan 10:24

  • Supersonic stealth jumpjet in first hover-system flight test

    Vid Brit pilot fires up Rolls-Royce lift kit

    The world's first supersonic stealth jumpjet, the F-35B, has belatedly begun flight tests of its vertical-thrust technology - much of which is from Blighty. The radical plane is intended to replace the famous Harrier in the services of many nations, including the UK. Here's a vid of the test aircraft trying out its downward- …

    Science 12 Jan 10:28

  • Twitter hack group hits Baidu.com

    Chinese search engine giant in DNS hijack drama

    The same group that used a DNS attack to hijack Twitter last month has defaced the home page of Chinese search engine Baidu. Surfers visiting Baidu site on Monday night were confronted by the message "This site has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army", together with an image of the Iranian flag. Early speculation suggests the …

    Enterprise Security 12 Jan 10:33

  • Orange denies exec's Apple tablet 'confirmation'

    Comments taken out of context, truth lost in translation

    Orange France has denied reports that a company executive admitted the existence of Apple’s much-rumoured iPad tablet. In a recent interview – available here - Stephane Richard, Orange France's deputy CEO, responded to questions about Apple tablet. Many observers took his words as confirmation that the device exists and will …

    Reg Hardware 12 Jan 10:51

  • Consumer Electronics Show Complete Coverage

    CES 2010 All the stories, all the tech

    Didn't get to this year's Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show? Here are the key stories. CES on Video Latest Asus Eee Keyboard desktop demo'd Demo'd: how to turn an iPhone into a universal remote Plastic Logic shows executive e-book reader Beamz shines light on laser-strummed musical instrument Kodak intros 3D remote …

    Reg Hardware 12 Jan 10:52

  • US airport body scanners can store and export images

    Uproar likely over threat of blurry customs pr0n

    Full body scanners at US airports can transmit digital strip search images of people, contrary to US Transportation Security Authority assurances. The TSA has maintained that such scanners cannot store or transmit scanned body images of people, stating that "the machines have zero storage capability." A TSA release stated …

    Policing 12 Jan 11:06

  • Gambling boss gets three years

    US ignores geography

    David Carruthers, the former chief executive of Betonsports, was sentenced to 33 months' prison time last week. Carruthers, a British citizen, was arrested in Dallas in 2006 while changing planes on his way to Costa Rica, where the business was based. His arrest pre-dated the passage of US laws to ban online gambling - tacked …

    Financial News 12 Jan 11:15

  • Record labels seek DMCA-style UK takedowns

    Exclusive Shoot first, check later

    Record label trade association the BPI wants sweeping changes to UK online copyright practice in 11th hour amendments to the Digital Britain bill. The amendments would grant copyright holders injunctions against websites and service providers similar to the US DMCA act - but with no 'safe harbour' provision to verify whether …

    Music and Media 12 Jan 11:16

  • SuperSpeed USB roll-out raises steam

    CES 2010 Official device tally hits 17 - plenty more to come

    The USB Implementers Forum - the organisation that oversees the bus standard - has said 17 products now have the right to come emblazoned with its SuperSpeed USB - aka USB 3.0 - logo. The list includes two motherboards from Asus and Gigabyte, plus laptops from HP and Fujitsu; adaptors from Ratoc and SIIG; and external storage …

    Reg Hardware 12 Jan 11:25

  • Nexus One bits and bobs cost $174

    iSuppli does the calcs

    Google's Nexus One smartphone costs $530 to buy online. The company could be making a handsome profit. iSuppli, the semiconductor industry analyst firm, reckons the Nexus One is a $174 (£107/€120) collection of bits, chips and aluminium. The handset has a total Bill of Materials (BoM) cost of $174.15, according to the iSuppli …

    Reg Hardware 12 Jan 11:34

  • Freesat BBC iPlayer trial coverage widened

    Now available to all Humax Freesat set-top box owners

    The BBC has extended its iPlayer-on-Freesat trial to more punters by publishing the "secret code" they need to try out the service. That said, since the code appeared on the internet last month, it's hasn't really been a secret for some time. The code, 5483, has to be punched in after entering the BBC's red button digital …

    Reg Hardware 12 Jan 11:42

  • Volkswagen unfolds coupé concept

    Leccy Tech Demos hybrid future at Detroit Motor Show

    Hot on the heels of Peugeot's SR1, Volkswagen has whipped the dust sheets off its own hybrid coupé concept at this year’s Detroit Motor Show. VW's New Compact Coupé is only a concept, for now Called, simply, the New Compact Coupé (NCC), VW’s concept car is another interpretation of the basic hybrid technology that the firm …

    Reg Hardware 12 Jan 12:01

  • Orange chief engulfed by Apple Tablet feeding frenzy

    Actually just said he'd read a magazine about it...

    Is this a record? With just four innocuous words at the tail end of a French TV interview yesterday morning, France Telecom number two Stephane Richard triggered a blogosphere-fanboi Apple Tablet feeding frenzy. He had said the launch of the beast was imminent, claimed an excitable French source, while Techcrunch, confirming the …

    Mobile 12 Jan 12:02

  • Apple vanishes multi-touch ancestor

    Will Cupertino be doing its own Qwerty work?

    Fingerworks.com has finally disappeared, five years after Apple bought the company and integrated multi-touch into the iPhone, hopefully paving the way for a new kind of keyboard. Fingerworks manufactured multi-touch keyboards for those with more money than sense*, enabling the use of gestures and multi-touch interaction with …

    Mobile 12 Jan 12:05

  • AOL sets itself mountain to climb with 1,400 layoffs

    Wrinkly web outfit axes offices in Sweden and Spain

    AOL began a series of job cuts yesterday, after it failed to convince 2,500 of its employees to take voluntary redundancy at the firm, which was spun out of Time Warner late last year. The limping web outfit announced plans to axe jobs in November 2009. Since then, only 1,100 of its workers have taken voluntary redundancy, …

    Music and Media 12 Jan 12:12

  • Avatar renders this earthly life meaningless

    Can't go to Pandora? Kill yourself!

    James Cameron's 3D sci-fi romp Avatar appears to have deeply affected some cinemagoers who've found that life on Earth doesn't measure up to the prospect of living on utopian world Pandora. CNN reports that net forums are awash with dark musings on the impossibility of visiting the virtual planet, with those most deeply …

    Music and Media 12 Jan 12:13

  • Acer announces 'Arrandale' laptops

    3D-ready model included

    Acer has introduced a pair of new notebooks each equipped with an array of Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 processor options and the new HM55 chipset. The two machines are the Aspire 5740, a 15.6in model, and its 17.3in sibling, the 7740. The 5740 and 7740 use the Intel GMA graphics built into the various processors they come with. …

    Reg Hardware 12 Jan 12:27

  • Computacenter says profits 'materially' ahead of forecasts

    As Morse signals confidence

    Computacenter said its profits for 2009 will be well ahead of expectations, as it saw services grow in the last quarter and hardware buyers rush to beat the government's VAT increase. The reselling giant said profits before tax and exceptionals should come in "materially ahead of consensus expectations" of £48.4m. Exceptionals …

    Channel Register 12 Jan 12:33

  • 2010: The year PC prices go up

    Component shortages means end of cheap PCs - for now

    PC prices have fallen - or at least stayed the same - for many years now, but some analysts believe this year will see them become more expensive. The reason is increasing prices for components as a result of overly pessimistic manufacturers cutting back production during the downturn. The long lead time for building complex …

    PCs & Chips 12 Jan 12:45

  • Roll up, roll up for the great Reg survey

    Reg Reader Survey Help us find out who you are

    Have you got that New Year feeling? Not sure who you are anymore? Uncertain what you want out of life? We can help - but you need to help us first. With more than ten years of these online shenanigans under our belt, you’d think we might have got fat and lazy. But no. Every day we struggle to find new and innovative angles to …

    Tech Panel 12 Jan 12:46

  • US Matrix-style cyberwar firing range goes to Phase II

    Duplicate internet for gov war-malware trials

    US plans to develop a virtual network world - to be populated by mirror computers and inhabited by myriad software sim-people "replicants", and used as a firing range in which to develop the art of cyber warfare - have moved ahead. The so-called "National Cyber Range" project will now move forward to Phase II, and a brace of …

    Government 12 Jan 12:54

  • Home Office misses Brussels' Phorm deadline

    Guess who could pay

    The government missed its deadline to respond to European allegations arising from the Phorm controversy that UK internet users are not protected against commercial wiretapping. The European Commission last year set a deadline of 29 December for Whitehall to reply to its reasoned legal opinion that UK privacy laws are not up …

    Telecoms 12 Jan 12:55

  • Nokia Booklet 3G

    Review Mobile maker's netbook debut

    Given its unparalleled success in the mobile phone market, it was only a matter of time before Nokia tried its hand at creating a laptop. The Finnish manufacturer isn’t keen on its Booklet 3G being called a netbook, though. Instead, ‘mini laptop’ is the preferred term. But with features such as 10.1in screen and Intel Atom …

    Reg Hardware 12 Jan 13:02

  • Frustrated bug hunters to expose a flaw a day for a month

    Fed up about getting exploited about exploits

    A Russian security firm has pledged to release details of previously undisclosed flaws in enterprise applications it has discovered every day for the remainder of January. Intevydis intends to publish advisories on zero-day vulnerabilities in products such as Zeus Web Server, MySQL, Lotus Domino and Informix and Novell …

    Enterprise Security 12 Jan 13:29

  • Browsers could host a (simple) database

    APIs for offline data access

    APIs are being developed to enable a browser and browser-based applications to ingest and store database records over the net for offline database access. In an apparently paradoxical development, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is developing sets of APIs to enable browser-integrated applications, such as e-mail clients …

    Storage 12 Jan 13:39

  • Latest Asus Eee Keyboard desktop demo'd

    CES 2010 on Video Multi-touch panel included

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    Reg Hardware 12 Jan 13:55

  • Data breach howlers to get up to £500,000 fine

    Ministry of Justice awaits Parliamentary approval

    The Information Commissioner's Office is threatening to slap penalties of up to half a million pounds on data controllers who are found guilty of serious breaches of the Data Protection Act. According to a statement on the Ministry of Justice's website, the government is pushing for Parliamentary approval of its Civil Monetary …

    Law 12 Jan 13:58

  • Canada quashes Yes Men hoax with phishing claim

    Too many boys crying wolf

    Those online pranksters known as The Yes Men may be called many things for their spoofing antics - satirists, provocateurs, major-league assholes - but phishers they're not. Ah, but that's exactly the excuse Canada's department of the environment used to shut down two of the organization's parody website's created last month …

    Law 12 Jan 14:02

  • Spider-Man 4 washed down plughole

    Maguire and Raimi exit project

    Columbia Pictures has cancelled Spider-Man 4 and will now develop "a younger, cheaper installment of the superhero franchise", without the assistance of Tobey Maguire or director Sam Raimi. The movie was scheduled for a 2011 release, but the studio last week put it on indefinite hold due to "script problems", Variety explains …

    Entertainment 12 Jan 14:03

  • European court pulls plugs on terror stop and search

    Another clumsy fail for the Home Office

    The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the UK police's use of stop and search powers granted under terrorism legislation is illegal. The case was brought by two people who were stopped and searched under the Terrorism Act of 2000 while on their way to an arms fair. The law grants police the power to search anyone …

    Policing 12 Jan 14:40

  • Star Trek to boldly go (again)

    Stardate 2012 for sequel undocking

    Paramount has announced that the sequel to JJ Abrams' successful reboot of the Star Trek franchise will hit cinemas on 29 June 2012. Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman will return to script the as-yet-untitled follow-up, while Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof once again shares production credits with Abrams. Abrams has not yet …

    Entertainment 12 Jan 14:44

  • Judge blames RealNetworks for DVD-ripping ban

    Snuffs antitrust claims against Hollywood

    A US district judge has rejected RealNetworks' argument that Hollywood studios illegally joined forces to block the sale of its DVD-duplicating software, RealDVD. On Friday, judge Marilyn Patel in California dismissed Real's antitrust claims, saying the preliminary injunction against distributing the DVD copying software still …

    Music and Media 12 Jan 15:02

  • Android and WinMo updates going head-to-head

    Smarter smartphones inbound?

    The rivalry between Android and Windows Mobile looks set to heighten, with Google and Microsoft both poised to release updates for their mobile operating systems. Android 2.0 – aka Éclair – only recently began filtering through onto mobile devices. Its successor, version 2.1, has now been uncovered, thanks to the release of a …

    Reg Hardware 12 Jan 15:15

  • Google flaps free flag in white space database race

    Competing to catalogue unused spectrum suddenly trickier

    Nine companies are bidding to run the US white space database, but only Google plans to give access away for free - which should ensure the race doesn't last long. The FCC plans for exploiting white space - unused TV spectrum - require the creation of a database showing which frequencies are available and where. Nine companies …

    Mobile 12 Jan 15:19

  • DARPA cuts back on Cray super project

    Say goodbye to $60m

    As the market was getting ready to open this morning Cray told Wall Street that the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which funds all kinds of advanced systems and networks, is scaling back its contract for a future petaflops-scale supercomputing system being designed by Cray under DARPA's High Productivity Computing …

    HPC 12 Jan 15:21

  • Women to 'chest drive' Bulgarian airbags

    'Simulated breast prosthesis' - sport before you import

    Women considering going under the knife to boost their assets are being offered the chance to "chest drive"* implants before committing to surgery. The Hospital Group explains that prior to popping in a pair of top-of-the-range Natrelle breast implants, its surgeons deploy the Biodynamics® Breast Analysis System, which …

    Bootnotes 12 Jan 15:24

  • Google releases Nexus One SDK

    Now, if they can just sort out the rest of it

    The Android variant found on Google's Nexus One handset now has an SDK, answering one of the criticisms aimed at the search giant's foray into hardware. The Android 2.1 SDK includes APIs for creating animated wallpapers, as well as some additional telephony functions and a couple of improvements to interaction with the WebKit …

    Mobile 12 Jan 15:26

  • Honda beats rivals to hybrid coupé launch

    Leccy Tech Take that, Peugeot and VW

    Peugeot and Volkswagen each demoed concept hybrid coupés recently, but Honda has trumped both with a soon-to-launch model of its own. Honda's hybrid CR-Z coupé: will arrive in Blighty this summer First seen last year and formally unveiled at the ongoing Detroit Motor Show, Honda’s CR-Z - it stands for Compact Renaissance …

    Reg Hardware 12 Jan 15:51

  • IT infrastructure: what really matters?

    Mini Poll Building a definitive picture for mid-sized companies

    It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day… and a new year for IT strategies to be set, budgets to be fixed and plans to be rolled out. The current rhetoric would suggest it’s all about cost – and for many organizations it may be. But each business is different, both in terms of the problems it is trying to solve, and the objectives it’s …

    Infrastructure Workshop 12 Jan 16:11

  • Is it art or is it pr0n? Australia decides it's ALL filth

    Won't someone think of the pictures of children?

    Australian painters and photographers may soon need to watch their step, as an overhaul of child pornography laws in New South Wales looks set to remove the defence of "artistic merit" from the statute books. The issue arose when Police raided an exhibition of works by Melbourne artist Bill Henson in May 2008. They were …

    Law 12 Jan 16:25

  • Phoenix to rise from Martian ashes frost?

    NASA checking for signs of life from Red Planet lander

    NASA will from 18 January check for signs of life from its Phoenix Mars Lander, which wrapped up its successful Red Planet arctic mission back in November 2008 and was pronounced probably dead. However, there's still a slim chance it has survived the harsh winter conditions which see "atmospheric carbon dioxide freeze onto the …

    Space 12 Jan 16:27

  • Making big ones out of small ones: RNA networks

    Memory aggregation

    Giving users more flexibility in how they configure systems to attack various workloads was a big thread running through SC09 last year. At the show, we took at look at three different companies who are, in one way or another, providing large system images. (Click to see our posts on ScaleMP, 3Leaf, and SGI.) One company we …

    HPC Blog 12 Jan 18:02

  • Police cuff citizens for videotaping arrests

    Film a cop, go to jail

    Since the police beating of motorist Rodney King in 1991, men in blue have looked warily at the civilian videotaping of arrests and other police activities. Some cops are so opposed to the practice, they've begun arresting the amateur videographers and charging them criminally. According to this article published by the New …

    Crime 12 Jan 18:27

  • Sun, Fujitsu juice entry Sparc box

    Yes, Sun still sells servers

    Sun Microsystems and its Sparc chip and server partner, Fujitsu, have have upgraded the entry Sparc Enterprise M3000 rack server with a peppier Sparc64-VII chip. The M3000 was not part of the original rollout of midrange and high-end Sparc Enterprise servers that the two companies brought to market in April 2007 with dual-core …

    Servers 12 Jan 18:47

  • Open-source BI specialist gets in-memory boost

    Jaspersoft bundles up for the enterprise

    Open-source business intelligence company JasperSoft is boosting itself into high-end data warehousing and data marts. The company has announced version 3.7 of its BI suite, which enhances querying of in-memory data. In-memory can be used to quickly serve up frequently accessed data. It's seen as an alternative to disk-based …

    Applications 12 Jan 19:28

  • Nokia opens Ovi Store for N900s

    One Maemo 5 update away

    Nokia N900 users who have updated their OS can now access the mobile Ovi Store from their smartphones. The opening of the store was announced Tuesday by the Finnish phonemaker, which recommends that you check out the live video broadcast app Qik and lyrics-searcher TuneWiki. To access the store, you'll need to perform the over …

    Mobile 12 Jan 19:31

  • 'God help our smartphones,' vicar prays

    Plough Monday ploughed under

    A London clergyman has brought a medieval ceremony of the Church of England into the 21st century by blessing his flock's smartphones, laptops, and iPods. The Revd Canon David Parrott of The City's 17th-century St Lawrence Jewry church told The Times that he wanted to update the ancient tradition of Plough Monday, when farmers …

    Mobile 12 Jan 19:34

  • South Korea sets up cyberwarfare unit to repel NORK hackers

    M*A*S*H with hackers instead of medics

    South Korea has launched a cyberwarfare command centre designed to fight against possible hacking attacks blamed on North Korea and China. The division boasts a reported 200 techies, who will be tasked with tackling a reported 95,000 hacking attacks the country's military networks face every day. North Korea was blamed for a …

    Security 12 Jan 20:46

  • Google unveils GDrive that's 'not the GDrive'

    Storage for any file on Google Docs

    Google says it's not the fabled GDrive. But the company will soon roll out an update to Google Docs - its web-based file editor - that lets users upload and store files of any type. In a Tuesday morning blog post, Google Docs project manager Vijay Bangaru said the update would appear on existing accounts "over the next few …

    Applications 12 Jan 21:47

  • Next-gen iPhone rumored for April

    When is 4G not 4G?

    The next iPhone will appear as soon as April and will include a host of upgrades that include a dual-core processor, improved graphics, video chat, an OLED display, plus - and this one is hard to believe - a removable battery. Or so say two reports out of Korea on Tuesday, one from The Korea Times and the other from Telecoms …

    Mobile 12 Jan 22:19

  • Hackers pluck 8,300 customer logins from bank server

    New variation on an old theme scheme

    Hackers have stolen the login credentials for more than 8,300 customers of small New York bank after breaching its security and accessing a server that hosted its online banking system. The intrusion at Suffolk County National Bank happened over a six-day period that started on November 18, according to a release (PDF) issued …

    Crime 12 Jan 22:29

  • Apache mulls end to 1.3 and 2.0 web server releases

    Lack of developer interest

    The Apache Software Foundation may formally end development of the long-in-tooth 1.3 and 2.0 branches of its Apache HTTP Server to focus support on the 2.2.xx branch. Apache is the most popular HTTP server software in use on the web, with numerous machines still running branches 1.3 and 2.0. However, developer interest for the …

    Software 12 Jan 22:37