mail client

On October 2, Microsoft released a Hotmail application into the Android Market. It was mentioned today during the Hotmail event, but it was extraordinarily low key for Microsoft, and not actually shown at all.

With the recent Microsoft/Android licensing and assorted drama, it’s not hard to see why Microsoft would keep such an application on the down low.

Here’s what you need to know:As Applications go, there’s nothing fancy about it when it installs.

Everyone who cares about security will remember the Debian Openssl disaster in 2008.

The debian developers had patched their version of openssl to fix compiler warnings. This resulted in a broken random number generator that made all keys generated by Debian systems predictable.

One would think that Debian developers are more careful with patching “bugs” in security tools since that day.

Originally an experimental branch of the Mozilla project, a new web browser was launched on November 9, 2004: Firefox 1.0.

Kabatology: "ThunderBrowse is a Mozilla Thunderbird plug-in that integrates Web surfing directly into Mozilla’s e-mail client by adding a simple URL bar to Thunderbird’s email preview panel."