Firefox 3 vulnerability found. A mere 5 hours after the browser was released, Tipping Point verified the bug, ranked its severity as “high,” and alerted Mozilla. Responding to press reports that an office of the Chinese government was probing into Microsoft’s business practices, China denies the matter, saying instead that particular department does not even handle market monopoly cases. The race by system vendors to add solid-state technology to servers is heating up as Hewlett-Packard joins with Fusion-io to inject servers with flash storage technology that HP claims can speed performance by as much as 40 percent for some applications. Red Hat boosts virtualization for the enterprise with a new management platform and embeddable hypervisor that, it hopes, will get large companies thinking about operating systems and virtualization in the same sense.And Sustainable IT author Ted Samson wonders Are green IT premiums worth the cost? Companies that opt for greener hardware reap energy savings, longer lifecycles, and other benefits that more than make up for heftier up-front price tags. And customers aren’t the only ones with something to gain. Software DevelopmentTechnology Industry