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Google is working hard on the next Iteration of Android and from now it is making ready the market to accept after 6 months eagerly! Android 2.x will show a majoy update over the current Android and Google has already named it “Froyo”. That is short for “ Frozen Yogurt” to follow the past Android’s revisions like Android 1.6 called “Donut" and 2.0 named "Eclair." There is no information about the new version. Electronista has mentioned that “ 2.1 adds animated backgrounds and...

A flaw in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) was discovered shortly before the holiday weekend, and after a few days of nothing from Redmond, the software giant has issued an alert that mostly downplays the problem. Researcher Soroush Dalili published information on the vulnerability [PDF Here], which centers on how IIS parses filenames that have a semi-colon or colon in them. For example, “malicious.asp;.jpg” is executed as an ASP file on the server Dalili explained in the...

It looks like the rumors that were leaked earlier regarding a Google branded Chrome OS netbook were indeed true. Google is planning to release atleast two sub $300 netbooks that will be powered by Chrome OS. These machines will sport 10.1 inches screen and will be powered by NVIDIA Tegra 2 platform. They’ll also feature 64 GB SSD, 2GB RAM, webcam, USB ports, GPS, WiFi, 3G and Bluetooth connectivity to go with it. Multitouch screens with GPS are also planned for high end models. These...

Facebook has been testing the alpha version of their new Facebook Connect your library for a few months. New library should be for developers to simplify the process of implementation of Facebook Connect. Day Facebook announced "basic support for XFBML and advanced data layer to optimize FQL queries." While David Recordon Facebook developers demoed this in Washington DC last week the developer garage, new library should make things much easier. Please note that the latest Connect Facebook...