New version of well-known free antivirus avast! Free Antivirus was released. There are minor interface updates and bug fixes in the list of modifications.

The updated version of the Notepad++, a program for plain text editing, was released. It supports great number of functions, including syntax highlighting of different programming languages. Even it is possible to print highlighted text on printer.

In an announcement published last week, Nokia's Valtteri Halla revealed that Intel and Nokia are planning to launch the public MeeGo source code repository by the end of the month.

At the RSA Conference on Thursday, a Google software security engineer said that Google will out a business version of its Chrome OS Netbook operating system in 2011, after the consumer version is released later this year.

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 is the slowest of the major browsers on the market, but it (along with its previous editions) is also currently still clinging to almost 60 percent market share. Some say the large market share is because it's relatively secure (despite a large number of attacks due to its major market share) and because its easily managed with IT software.