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Mozilla on Monday posted Firefox 3 Beta 1, a developer preview release of the popular open source Web browser.
The latest iteration of the browser relies on the new Gecko 1.9 Web rendering engine, which is designed to enhance performance and stability, among other things. The latest version also includes a variety of improved security features, such as the ability to click on the site favicon (the graphic displayed in the URL address bar) to show site ownership information.

Firefox 3 Beta 1 also includes malware protection. But the effectiveness of using a blacklist to identify sites that distribute malware remains to be seen, given that new malware sites appear and disappear on a daily basis specifically to avoid blacklisting.

Other Firefox security features may prove more useful, like Web Page Forgery Protection, clearer SSL Error messages when invalid SSL certificates are found, automatic plug-in checking that can disable insecure plug-in updates, integration with anti-virus programs, and compliance with Microsoft Vista's Parental Control settings.

Firefox 3 Beta 1 introduces a number of ease of use enhancements. There's improved password management and add-on installation. There also a new download manager that lets you resume downloads interrupted by a crash or loss of connectivity.

"You're gonna find that it's not only fast, nimble, and featureful, but such an advance from Firefox 2 that you won't want to go back," said Mozilla's community quality advocate Asa Dotzler in a blog post on Monday.

Despite the warning that the software is being made available for testing purposes only -- to find flaws beyond the ones already known -- reviewers have been critical of Firefox 3's security.

Responding to a report last week that 80% of the bugs found in Firefox 3 would remain unrepaired by the time the software is officially released, Dotzler said in a blog post, "That claim is simply [not true]. We've already fixed over 11,000 bugs and features in Firefox 3 and now we're discussing how to handle the remaining 700 issues we wanted to get fixed for Firefox 3."

The browser's release notes offer similar assurance. "Over 300 individual memory leaks have been plugged, and a new XPCOM cycle collector completely eliminates many more," the release notes say. "Developers are continuing to work on optimizing memory use (by releasing cached objects more quickly) and reducing fragmentation."

Version 3.0 was first demonstrated at the Black Hat security show in Las Vegas, back in August.

AMD Springs Spider On Market

Advanced Micro Devices launched a package of microprocessors and graphics chips on Monday dubbed Spider, in a bid to grab a bigger swath of the high-end PC market.

Along with a microprocessor that serves as a PC's core calculating engine, Spider includes graphics technology for serving up the advanced graphics beloved by gamers and a chipset that ties those elements together and connects them to other resources such as the main memory.

Spider is a step towards AMD's goal of putting high-end graphics capabilities on a single slice of silicon with its processors, a project AMD has dubbed Fusion. The problem, observers say, is that AMD is still lagging Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) in microprocessors, while trying to recoup lost market share in the graphics market.

"I see a continued struggle for AMD through the next few years," said Roger Kay, president, Endpoint Technologies Associates. "They can survive, they can even thrive, but it won't be a situation where they'll have a technology edge on Intel for any appreciable period of time."

AMD needs hits, badly. The company's shares have sagged 40% so far this year as it worked to integrate graphics specialist ATI—which AMD purchased for $5.4 billion last October— while fending off tough competition from Intel in microprocessors. By contrast, shares of Intel and ATI rival Nvidia are up more than 20% over the same period.

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Google Android

The Android platform is a software stack for mobile devices including an operating system, middleware and key applications. Developers can create applications for the platform using the Android SDK. Applications are written using the Java programming language and run on Dalvik, a custom virtual machine designed for embedded use which runs on top of a Linux kernel.

If you want to know how to develop applications for Android, you're in the right place. This site provides a variety of documentation that will help you learn about Android and develop mobile applications for the platform.

An early look at the the Android SDK is also available. It includes sample projects with source code, development tools, an emulator, and of course all the libraries you'll need to build an Android application.

Advanced Micro Sells Stake to Abu Dhabi's Mubadala

Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the world's second-largest maker of computer microprocessors, sold an 8.1 percent stake to an investment company owned by the Abu Dhabi government for $622 million.

Mubadala Development Co. paid $12.70 a share for the 49 million new shares, Advanced Micro said in a statement today. The company filed documents with regulators yesterday in the U.S. to sell as much as $700 million in new stock.

Middle Eastern funds such as Mubadala are snapping up stocks around the globe as governments in the region invest the windfall revenue from surging oil prices. So-called sovereign wealth funds, through which governments buy equities and other assets, will grow to $7.9 trillion by 2011 from $1.9 trillion now, Merrill Lynch & Co. economists wrote in a report last month.

Spending on a new plant, a $5.4 billion acquisition and competition with the semiconductor industry's richest company have hurt Advanced Micro's finances. Advanced Micro posted more than $2 billion in net losses in the past four quarters and analysts estimate it won't return to profit until 2009 as it struggles to keep pace with Intel Corp.

The chipmaker will use the proceeds for general corporate purposes. The Sunnyvale, California-based company said it received $608 million in proceeds after reimbursing Mubadala for about $14.6 million of expenses.

Advanced Micro shares fell 2 cents to $12.68 at 10:43 a.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. The stock had declined 38 percent this year before today, giving the company a market value of $7.04 billion.

Overseas Funds

Sovereign wealth funds, usually formed using surplus currency reserves, are seeking investments that deliver higher returns than investing in U.S. Treasuries. China, with reserves of $1.33 trillion, is the largest such investor, followed by Japan, with $907.3 billion, Merrill said in an Oct. 12 report.

The funds provide an additional slate of investors for private-equity and hedge funds, as well as for companies.

Mubadala agreed in September to buy a 7.5 percent stake in Carlyle Group, the Washington-based private-equity firm with $76 billion in assets, for $1.35 billion. Mubadala's investments also include stakes in Ferrari SpA and Swiss aircraft maintenance company SR Technics.

Dubai International Capital LLC is buying a 9.9 percent stake in New York-based hedge fund Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC for $1.26 billion. The firm, an arm of the Dubai government, has spent more than $10 billion since 2004 buying stakes in companies including India's ICICI Bank Ltd., European Aeronautic, Defence & Space Co. and HSBC Holdings Plc.

Abu Dhabi is the capital of the United Arab Emirates and owner of almost 10 percent of the world's oil reserves. Neighboring Qatar in September bought 20 percent of London Stock Exchange Group Plc.

Ruiz's Challenge

Analysts say Chief Executive Officer Hector Ruiz won't deliver a profit until the first quarter of 2009, according to a Bloomberg survey. Ruiz obtained graphics chips through the purchase of ATI Technologies Inc., Advanced Micro's biggest acquisition, and said he wants plants that can supply at least 30 percent of the processor market.

Advanced Micro had a 23.5 percent market share in the third quarter, little changed from a year earlier. Santa Clara, California-based Intel has the rest.

Advanced Micro ended the third quarter with $1.53 billion in cash and marketable securities, a drop of $66 million from the previous period. Some $118 million of that total is in the form of shares of former affiliate Spansion Inc.

In the third quarter, Advanced sold a $1.48 billion convertible bond. It used the proceeds and $200 million in cash to repay a $1.7 billion loan used to fund the ATI acquisition.

The company has $1.9 billion of bonds due for repayment in 2012 and a further $2.2 billion due in 2015. It had total liabilities of $8.5 billion at the end of the third quarter.