Amazon has just decreased its storage prices for S3.Amazon S3, or Amazon Simple Storage Service is a cloud storage service. Unlike Dropbox or other cloud backup / sync services Amazon S3 isn’t meant for consumers, but for use as a storage and distribution service. It provides an API for storing, retrieving, setting permissions for and deleting objects on their service, and is intended to be used at the back-end of sites. In fact Dropbox itself uses Amazon S3 in its back-end, but to users it provides a shiny functional service and client.Rather than selling blocks of storage, Amazon charges for S3 based on actual consumption of resources. In the case of S3 the charges are levied based on how much storage is used, how much bandwidth is consumed and the number of requests made to...

An incubator build of the Flash Player is now available with a new security feature that should protect those using the popular browser plug-in on Windows in Firefox.Sandboxing is a security measure that ensures that even in the worst case, if an attacker is able to exploit a flaw in the software, the system remains secure. Code running in a sandbox essentially has fewer privileges, and restricted access to the machine it runs on, so in the case of an attack, only information within the sandbox can be leaked. Google Chrome sandboxes its browser processes so different websites run within different sandboxes, making it difficult for an attack in one tab to access data from another. Internet Explorer 7 and above also use sandboxing, if installed on Windows Vista or above.Flash Player in...

The Blackberry Playbook Tablet now has a new OS Version 2.0 with a runtime for Android 2.3.3. Blackberry tablet owners can update their current OS to 2.0 (the update is currently in beta) to utilise some great new features that have been added over the earlier software release.With the new 2.0 OS, the Playbook gets a native email client, calendar and contacts apps. The email client was a much needed feature for the tablet and has been well designed for users on the go. The emails can be formatted in a rich style and can also be integrated with Gmail accounts. The contacts app is useful for consolidating contacts from different social networks such as Twitter and LinkedIn besides retrieving contacts from email accounts.Based on the QNX Operating System, the Blackberry Tablet OS...