Adobe to bundle in Google toolbar

Google has agreed to pay Adobe Systems a "significant" amount to distribute its Web search software over several years, says the multimedia software maker.

According to CNet, Adobe said in a statement it had begun distributing Google search software with new downloads of its Macromedia Shockwave.

The multimedia playback software allows users to view interactive Web programming such as games, entertainment, business presentations and advertisements via a Web browser.

The majority of Microsoft workers snub their own outfit`s search engine and use Google, a Web metrics company claims, reports The Inquirer.

According to Techweb, Andrew Hitchcock posted Google Analytics statistics on visitors to his Web site. He said that of the users originating from Microsoft`s domain who reached his site via a search engine, 80% came through Google. Only 20% used a Microsoft search engine.

A more formal bean counter, VisitorVille Intelligence, has come up with similar figures.

Security researchers have found a way to seize control of a laptop computer by manipulating buggy code in the system`s wireless device driver, according to Slash Dot. David Maynor, a research engineer with Internet Security Systems, will demonstrate the hack at the upcoming Black Hat USA 2006 conference.

Researchers used an open source 802.11 hacking tool called LORCON (Lots of Radion Connectivity) to throw an extremely large number of wireless packets at different wireless cards and see if they fail.

They say exploiters could simply sit in a public space and wait for the right type of machine to come into range to attack.