LinuxSecurity.com: "Extensible Markup Language (XML), Web services, and service-oriented architecture (SOA) are the latest craze in the software development world. These buzzwords burn particularly bright in large enterprises with hundreds or thousands of systems that were developed independently. If these

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in FreeType's Printer Font Binary (PFB) font-file format parser. If a user were to load a carefully crafted font file with a program linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash or potentially

LinuxSecurity.com: Some vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel: Buffer overflow in format descriptor parsing in the uvc_parse_format function in drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_driver.c in uvcvideo in the video4linux (V4L) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26.1 has unknown impact

Chocolate teapot put on standby.The spread of CAPTCHA-breaking tools has resulted in a sudden surge in the use of blogging sites such as Google's Blogspot to host spam adverts, security vendor MessageLabs has reported.

Remote working proving to be big driver.Two-thirds of UK businesses are either currently using cloud-based applications or have already made the investment and will be rolling it out in the next year, according to recent research from Citrix.

Second time in three months."Over the next couple of months we'll be rolling out another infrastructure update to the Windows Update agent (client code)," said an unidentified Microsoft employee on the Windows Update team's official blog. "This update makes it

Way out for troubled electronics company.Japanese electronics giant Panasonic is set to buy Sanyo Electric, according to he Nikkei business daily.

Although Cisco stays schtum about planned edge routerCisco is expected to announce a new service provider edge router later this month that's likely to succeed its ageing 7600 series Ethernet platforms, according to an analyst's report.

Not tough on hacking or on the the causes of hacking.Cyber crime has increased because it's easy get involved and offenders are rarely caught or punished, says the Corporate IT Forum.

Vista more secure, XP still an issue.The era of operating system vulnerability is slowly drawing to a close, with more than nine out of ten published software vulnerabilities now appearing in applications, Microsoft's latest half-yearly report has suggested.

May the Force be with them.Salesforce is set to launch a site, Force.com, that couldl enable its customers to run their own websites on Salesforce's cloud infrastructure.

Flaw patched.Users of the G1 Android phone have started to receive a software update that fixes the flaw that was discovered a week ago.

But investor Oracel is left well aloneOn-demand ERP vendor NetSuite is launching a new scheme to lure high-paying SAP R/3 customers. Under the deal, NetSuite will charge an SAP R/3 customer 50 percent of whatever their R/3 maintenance costs are

Parallels shows how to cut back on desktop costsVirtual desktop company Parallels has launched a desktop calculator that it claimed will make it easier for user organisations to ascertain the cost savings involved in adopting a virtual desktop infrastructure.The company

Opera: Multiple vulnerabilities

The Slacker G2 MP3 player gives you unlimited free music - as long as you have a WiFi connection to download with.

The latest flurry of turnaround plans for Motorola is being met with about as much enthusiasm as previous attempts to revive the company's foundering mobile-phone business: not much.During an Oct. 30 conference call discussing the third-quarter results that included falling