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[Source:  http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/Google_Open_Sources_websecurity_scanner-nid-66489-cid-2.html ] Google continue to contribute to the open source community and has now launched open-source web-security scanner called Skipfish that is designed to allow people to scan web applications for security holes. The tool scans a web application for flaws including "tricky scenarios" such as blind SQL or XML injection, Google developer Michal Zalewski said in the Skipfish wiki, according to ZDNet.  Zalewski wrote that there are already a number of both commercial and open-source scanning tools available, including Nikto and Nessus, and recommended that people use the tool that suits them. However, he added that Skipfish is high performance, with over 500 requests per second against internet targets, and over 2,000 requests per second on LANs, depending on the capabilities of the server being tested. Skipfish prepares a sitemap annotated with interactive crawl results...

[Source: http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/iPhone_developers_to_write_Android_apps-nid-66480.html?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Subscriber ] Over 70 percent of iPhone developers are planning to also write for Android in the next six months, which may give Android an unambiguous lead in mobile app development among those tracked through the mobile ad service, according to AdMob.  The study which is done by Ad Mob also found that Symbian and webOS developers are the most likely to consider their apps at least somewhat successful and write more apps, but Symbian is also one of the least-liked by the developers themselves; RIM's BlackBerry OS and J2ME are the only others to face more hostile reactions from app designers. Android and iPhone are virtually tied for being the most likely to at least partly please developers. Till now no explanation is given for the new lean towards Android, but the existence of a genuinely popular device like the Mot...

[Source: http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/Organizations_embracing_Windows_7-nid-66426.html?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Subscriber ] As part of an ongoing research series on Windows operating system (OS) adoption, the latest Dell KACE global survey shows 87 percent of IT professionals surveyed now plan to deploy Windows 7. While concerns for software compatibility and migration costs remain high, this is a dramatic increase from a similar study released in April 2009, which revealed the majority of IT staff had no plans to upgrade existing systems to Windows 7 in the next year. This year's study attributes increased confidence in performance, security and stability to the overwhelming change of heart. Further demonstrating affinity for the new OS, almost half the 900 respondents said they plan to deploy Windows 7 before the anticipated summer release of its first Service Pack (SP1). And for the first time since KACE initiated this research in...

[Source: http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/Windows_Phone_7_Series_do_not_support_Flash_-nid-66398.html?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Subscriber ] Newly launched Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 Series won't support Adobe's Flash multimedia Web graphics software, nor will it allow users to perform simple cut-and-paste procedures on applications and messages. The company said that it did not feel it worth delaying the launch of Windows Phone 7 to include features it doesn't believe are deal breakers. The company is hoping to get Windows Phone 7 devices into the market in time for the 2010 holiday season. According to the various reports, the company is planning to add support for Flash and cut-and-paste in later updates to the Windows Phone 7 OS. Regarding this issue, Adobe developer Relations Manager Mike Chambers said, "One thing I wanted to clarify as it may have been lost in some of the other news is that Adobe and Microsoft a...