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6 Easy Ways to Secure Your Hotspot Sessions

Are you increasingly using public Wi-Fi hotspots? If you are, you're in good company, as many more people use public Wi-Fi for work and play. Airports, coffee shops, hotel lobbies, conference centers and many more types of locations are Wi-Fi enabled. Many hotspot hotspot users, though, don't take the right steps to secure their sessions. In this post, you'll find six tips and applications--including both open source and freeware offerings--that you can use to lock down your sessions.


Has Microsoft Suddenly Awakened to Open Source?

Is open source finally making sense to Microsoft? Jeremy LaCroix sees a number of reasons to believe so. He notes that within only six months, the company has contributed 20,000 lines of code to the Linux community, given away countless copies of Windows 7, launched its CodePlex foundation, and announced that it is opening up the .PST data format behind Microsoft Outlook. I think it will be a long time before Microsoft fully wakes up to the benefits of open source, but some divisions hear the call, and more will over time.


Why Aren't Mozilla and Opera Vocal About Microsoft's EU Settlement Offer?

This week, the European Commission announced its preliminary satisfaction with a settlement offer proposed by Microsoft that would end an antitrust battle that has been simmering for over 10 years. Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith posted a response that said: We welcome today?s announcement by the European Commission to move forward with formal market testing of Microsoft?s proposal relating to web browser choice in Europe. We also welcome the opportunity to take the next step in the process regarding our proposal to promote interoperability with a broad range of our products.?

As Smith alludes to, a big part of the proposed settlement has to do with Microsoft including a browser ballot window in Internet Explorer that lists a broad array of browsers and allows users to choose which one to use. Opponents of that proposal, including Mozilla and Opera, have criticized the fact that the ballot screen is found within Internet Explorer, which is still bundled with Windows, and the fact that any alternative browser must be downloaded, which many users will be too lazy to do. So why are Mozilla and Opera being so reticent in the wake of the European announcement?



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An open source energy future? Energy Secretary Stephen Chu has seen our energy future and says it?s open source.

Internet Explorer market share plummeting--or is it? Did it drop more precipitously in June than people think?

Ultimate Firefox productivity tips, for geeks. Using keywords, and keyboard shortcuts.

Apple wary of Ogg Theora: No agreement yet on HTML 5 video standard. Firefox 3.5 and Chrome already support the new video tag of the HTML 5 specification.

A comparison of open source search engines. Here are benchmark tests for Lucene, Xapian, zettair, sqlite, and sphinx.



Microsoft Has 10 Grand For You if You're Willing to Use Internet Explorer

We've written extensively about the declining market share of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, which is being challenged from every angle by open source browsers such as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Firefox is already the number one browser in Europe, is vastly more extensible than Internet Explorer, and is out in an excellent new Release Candidate version 3.5. ?The European Commission is also pressuring Microsoft on its distribution practices for its browser.

How desperate is Microsoft to woo users to its Internet Explorer version 8 browser? Mozilla Chair Mitchell Baker points out in a blog post that Microsoft is now offering $10,000 in prize money buried somewhere on the Internet which you can only find if you use Internet Explorer. Come on Microsoft, Internet Explorer needs a lot more than this marketing campaign to shore up its prospects.



Microsoft to Remove the IE Browser from Windows 7 PCs in Europe

We've made the point many times that most of the innovation in Internet browsers is coming from the open source players, particularly Firefox. That trend has continued to drive Firefox's market share up, and it sits at over 22 percent market share right now. At the same time, Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser has continued to lose share, at well under 70 percent and dropping now. Nowhere are these trends more pronounced than in Europe, where Firefox now has dominant market share over Internet Explorer. That's why, as CNet reports, it's big news that Microsoft plans to remove Internet Explorer from the versions of Windows 7 that it will ship in Europe. The big beneficiary here is very likely to be Firefox.


Jetpack FAQ, and the Promising Path Ahead for Firefox Extensions

Recently, we covered Mozilla's Jetpack. It's an API designed to make building extensions for Firefox easier and faster. It doesn't require extensions to be written in XUL, and allows developers to use standard technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Essentially, anyone who can build a web site can build Firefox extensions with it, and it's gotten quite a bit of notice for its potential to greatly increase the already large number of Firefox extension developers. According to an update from Mozilla, there is already very strong interest in Jetpack, and a new Jetpack FAQ.


Browser Chiefs Aiming Squarely At Web Apps

Is innovation in browsers where it should be? We've reported before on how most of the innovation is going on in open source browsers, as Microsoft's Internet Explorer continues to lose market share. This week, at two separate conferences, officials from Google and Mozilla have weighed in on how browsers need to improve. Notably, they primarily agree, and their focus doesn't seem matched by Microsoft with Internet Explorer.


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Microsoft's IE is losing 10 percent market share every two years. Meanwhile, Mozilla's open source Firefox browser gains 10 percentage points every two years.

VLC Media Player 1.0.0 RC1 emerges. The first release candidate has emerged for Linux and Windows, featuring frame-by-frame playback, on-the-fly recording, and many new codecs.

Open source shrugs at EU liability plans. What should we make of the European Commission's (EC) proposal to make software sellers liable for problems in their code?

An under-$200 netbook. The Gecko EduBook runs Linux, has an 8.9-inch display, and can run on either 8 AA batteries, or can be recharged.

Qt opens source code repositories. Developers can now help contribute code and more to Qt, which underlies many popular mobile applications.



Mozilla Doesn't Like the Way Windows 7 Boosts Internet Explorer

We've reported before on the declining market share that Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser is experiencing as it competes with innovative open source browsers, particularly Firefox. That's been complemented by a very aggressive effort from the European Commission to force Microsoft to offer more choices in browsers on its Windows operating system. The biggest news of all on the Microsoft front at the moment is its upcoming Windows 7 operating system, slated to ship later this year. It's been getting good reviews, and is predicted by some to rejuvenate the company after the shaky ride that Windows Vista has had. Now, though, Mozilla chairperson Mitchell Baker is charging that Windows 7 gives Microsoft unfair advantages in the browser battles.


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