Adobe Systems has released an emergency security update to fix 17 vulnerabilities in its Reader and Acrobat applications, including two critical bugs that are being exploited by hackers in the wild.
The vulnerabilities were first reported by Adobe on 4 June, along with another critical vulnerability in its Flash player, which was patched within a few days.
The security patch for Acrobat and Reader had been scheduled for release on 13 June, but was moved forward by the company because the vulnerabilities addressed were being exploited by hackers to install malware onto end users …

Users of Google Chrome on Linux, Mac and Windows machines were automatically upgraded Thursday to a new browser version that addresses several security bugs and features a fully integrated Flash multimedia player for the first time. Google Vice President of Engineering Linus Upson believes browser users will benefit in several different ways from Chrome’s integration of Adobe Systems’ Flash technology for the web.
“When users download Chrome, they will also receive the latest version of Adobe Flash Player as well as automatically receive updates related to Flash Player using Google Chrome’s auto-update mechanism,” …

Google has remotely removed two free apps from several hundred Android phones because the apps misrepresented their purpose and thus violated Android developer policies, according to a company spokesman.
This marks the first time Google has used the Remote Application Removal Feature that allows the company to delete apps for security reasons that have been installed through Android Market.
The apps were proof-of-concept programs designed to test the feasibility of distributing a program that could later be used to take control of the device in an attack, according to Jon Oberheide, the …

A little over a year ago, we released an early preview of Google Voice, our web-based platform for managing your communications. We introduced one number to ring all your phones, voicemail that works like email, free calls and text messages to the U.S. and Canada, low-priced international calls and more—the only catch was you had to request and receive an invite to try it out. Today, after lots of testing and tweaking, we’re excited to open up Google Voice to the public, no invitation required.
Over the past year, we’ve introduced a mobile …

Microsoft has announced that its refresh of Windows Live Essentials, putting the updated services into public beta.
Windows Live Essentials includes free programs from Microsoft for photos, movies, instant messaging, e‑mail, blogging, family safety, and more. Get them all in one download and get more done with Windows.
With Essentials, you get Messenger, Photo Gallery, Mail, Movie Maker, Writer, Family Safety, and Toolbar, plus Microsoft Office OutlookConnector, Office Live Add-in, and Microsoft Silverlight.
Download it at the Microsoft Windows Live Essentials website.

Thousands of organizations deploy Google Apps every day, and a challenge for some large businesses has been migrating employees on multiple domains. Until now, companies that ran into this issue could either set up other domains as domain aliases or set up different Google Apps accounts for each domain, neither of which was an ideal solution. Now there’s a better way: multi-domain support in Google Apps.
Multi-domain support is a new admin control that allows organizations with two or more domains on Google Apps to manage them from a single control …

Canonical is preparing a version of the Ubuntu OS for tablet computers as the company looks to extend its presence in the mobile world.
Canonical tablets with the Ubuntu OS are projected to be available in early 2011; there has been no information on any of the OEM hardware that Canonical will be using.
The tablet OS will be based on Ubuntu’s upcoming version 10.10, which is currently code-named Maverick Meerkat. This version is expected to be released within a matter of months for the Desktop, Servers and Netbooks.
The new Ubuntu based …

Microsoft has released information that a service pack will be coming both to Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008, this was announced yesterday at the TechEd conference in New Orleans.
The up-coming service pack is planned to have tweaks to security, performance, and reliability for the eight-month-old Windows 7, including boosts for Remote Desktop Services and for Hyper-V, Microsoft’s virtualization platform.
While the new features for Windows Server 2008 R2 benefit Windows 7 by providing a richer VDI experience, SP1 will not contain any new features that are specific to Windows 7 …

The Safari web browser is the main web browser for the Apple Mac operating systems and the iPhone/iPad OS. Apple is set to announce the next version of Safari at the World Wide Developer Conference which starts today, June 7th 2010.
The next version of the browser is rumoured to have better support for HTML 5 and an increase in JavaScript speed of nearly 25 per cent compared to previous releases. Also anticipated are support for Microsoft’s Bing search engine, DNS pre-fetching, a new geolocation feature called and a Safari Reader.
Apple …

WordPress 3.0 RC2 is now available for download; this means that final version could be released any day now. This release will mark a new milestone in WordPress history, with several exciting new features including: multiple sites, custom menus, custom post types and a new default theme.
So what is WordPress?
WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not …