Top 5 Optimizers technical rumors

We understand that this is not entirely software news, but it involves one of the biggest players on the software market and should be mentioned especially with the holiday’s time. Google, always being innovative and original, has made a present to the world by donating 20 million USD to the charity organizations. It was motivated by the fact that with the economy in such state, charity organizations have had one of the worst years. “Our present to you – is a present to them” as the company itself said.

With this said, I too will be happy to wish you all Marry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Over the past week, hackers have exploited flaws in popular open-source advertising software to place malicious code on advertisements on several famous Web sites. Using a pair of bugs in the OpenX advertising software the attackers logged in to advertising servers and placed malicious code on ads being served on the sites. Web based attacks are a favorite way for cyber-criminals to install their malicious software and this latest round of hacks shows how ad server networks can become useful conduits for attack. However OpenX said that it was aware of “no major vulnerabilities associated with the current version of the software in either its downloaded or hosted forms,”, but we still recommend to keep an eye out for updates.

A small Missouri design company that includes a word “Bing” in its name filed the case to the St. Louis circuit court this week, accusing Microsoft for branding its search engine with the same word, alleging trademark infringement and unfair competition. The design company, which offers computer-related illustrations and other services, has used the name Bing since 2000, and is now seeking damages including corrective advertising paid for by Microsoft to eliminate confusion between the brands. However Microsoft denies possible relation with the trademark: “We believe this suit to be without merit and we do not believe there is any confusion in the marketplace with regard to the complainant’s offerings and Microsoft’s Bing product,” the spokesman said.

Eset antivirus company announced the beginning of beta-testing of their new products designed for Mac OS X and Linux which will go live in the beginning of 2010. New software is based on the fourth generation of ESET NOD32 antivirus core, using ThreatSense technology allowing to identify even the newest viruses no yet in the virus signature databases. The company will be adding the list of the Mac OS X and Linux harmful programs to their threats lists to be able to cope with all the problems their useres might be meeting. Mac OS X version currently supports Mac OS X 10.5.x (Leopard) andMac OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard), while Linux version runs on RedHat, Debian, Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora, Mandrivaand some others. You can get the full list on the download page if you decide to check it out.

Rumors have it that the acquisition-happy search giant has acquired Gizmo5, a Skype-like VoIP startup. Google has payed $30 million in cash for Gizmo5, which offers a software app that allows you to make free phone calls to other Gizmo users, as well as inexpensive calls to landlines and cell phones. It also supports SMS and instant messaging. Although it has not been officially announced, many industry watchers say it is a done deal. And combined with what Google already has in VoIP direction, it may result in something much more powerful then Skype. So how might consumers benefit from this? We can only guess for now, but with the Google tendancy to stir up trouble in established tech markets (just ask the GPS makers about it) we might soon expirience something new and yet unseen.