After warning on Tuesday that hackers were exploiting an unpatched bug in Adobe Systems' Flash Player software, Symantec has backtracked from this claim, saying the flaw is "very similar" to another vulnerability that was patched last month.

Google's Mini search appliance for small and midsize businesses has grown a new set of capabilities for crawling and categorizing documents, the company announced in a blog post Tuesday.

Startup Paglo, which first unveiled its "search engine for IT" in November, plans to announce Tuesday that the fledgling SaaS (software as a service) offering is now available in open beta form through the summer, after which the company will

Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, decided it was time to make peace.

Ruby on Rails 2.1, a planned upgrade to the popular open-source Web framework, could be released as soon as this weekend, the creator of the framework, David Heinemeier Hansson, said on Tuesday.

An unpatched bug in Adobe Systems' Flash Player software is being exploited by online criminals, Symantec reported Monday.

Google is announcing pricing for its App Engine service for Web application hosting Wednesday, maintaining a free tier, then charging for storage of more than 500MB of data.