The Glider

Category: Widely Deployed Software

Affected:

• Mozilla Firefox prior to 10.0
• Mozilla Firefox 3.6.x prior to 3.6.26

Micron CEO Steve Appleton died in a small plane crash in Boise. The Idaho-based semiconductor company is a significant player in the hardware space. - Micron Technology chairman and CEO Steve Appleton apparently died in a plane crash at the Boise airport Feb. 3. He was 51 years old, and had served as CEO of the company for more than 20 years. According to the Associated Press, he was the only one in the fixed-wing plane, which an airport sp...

Companies need to think about educating users about security, the threats and the risks alongside traditional data-leak protection. - CANCUN, MEXICO Companies invest in security to protect their networks and data. But sometimes, they are not thinking about the human side of the security equation, Kaspersky Lab researchers told attendees at the company's security conference. The “Humans are the weakest link” presentation on ...

At the HIMSS12 conference in Las Vegas, telehealth vendor Consult A Doctor will introduce new cloud-based virtual exam models that hospitals and clinics can implement and customize to suit their requirements. - Telehealth provider Consult A Doctor plans to debut two new additions to its remote-care platform at the HIMSS12 health care IT conference from Feb. 20-24 in Las Vegas to allow hospitals and clinics to customize subscriptions for cloud-based virtual visits. Consult A Doctor is a cloud-based pl...

Granite, the latest acceleration technology from Riverbed Technology, is designed to speed up storage across the WAN and drive the consolidation of data centers. - Well-known for its application acceleration products, Riverbed Technology delves into the next logical phase of speeding up traffic across WANs with its new accelerator technology, called Granite. Simply put, Riverbed's Granite does for WAN storage, what Riverbed's Steelhead does for application...

Verizon's deal with three cable companies will turn competitors into partners, which could hurt consumers, according to U.S. Sen. Al Franken. The FCC has agreed to hold a hearing. - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has once again been asked to protect the rights of smartphone-toting consumers from big-business spectrum deals. Following AT amp;T's nine-month process of trying to convince the FCC that allowing it to purchase T-Mobile would benefit Americans, it's n...

Google takes the covers off Bouncer, an automated scanning service that checks new and existing apps on Android Market for malware. - Malicious hackers trying to circulate malware-tainted applications on Android Market are going to find Google's Bouncer at the door, preventing undesirable apps from getting in and kicking out troublemakers. Bouncer has been monitoring the Android Market for several months already, and Google ...

Google's Android OS finished 2011 with 47.3 percent U.S. smartphone market share, according to comScore. No. 2 Apple iOS garnered 29.6 percent share, thanks to the iPhone 4S. - Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android smartphone market share topped 47.3 percent, closing 2011 nearly 18 percentage points higher than No. 2 Apple's iOS in the United States, according to comScore. While Android's share rose from 46.9 percent in November, it is iOS that finished the year on a stro...

Vocalabs reports AT&T beat Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile in customer satisfaction, while a J.D. Powers study found Verizon to be tops, with the others following at a distance. - AT amp;T, which rated lowest of the four major carriers in a recent J.D. Powers and Associates customer care survey, would like to direct your attention to an also-recent Vocalabs National Customer Service Survey (NCSS), in which it came out on top. In the face of satisfaction declines among its co...

If Apples incredibly strong iPad sales during the fourth quarter told industry observers anything, its that the companys tablet was far and away the most-desired slate of 2011. Part of that might be due to the fact that the tablet didnt face much serious competition. But its also due to the quality consumers and even some enterprise users found in the device. But 2012 is a new year with a host of opportunities for every tablet maker. Every major firm, from Apple and Samsung to RIM and Amazon, has a chance at becoming the top tablet maker of the year. However, theyll need to achieve that by delivering all the features that consumers and enterprise customers are looking for in their tablets. Theyll also need to promote the products effectively to make sure the world knows about the features and components that can make their models real contenders. This eWEEK slide show examines some of the key factors that will determine 2012s tablet king. And unfortunately for Apples competitors, it appears the iPad has a long head start. - ...