Most iPad developers may not yet have touched the actual device, but that doesn't mean they haven't been busy working away on software for Apple's newest invention. But, according to an email obtained by Macworld, if you want your iPad application to have a chance of being in the App Store for the iPad's arrival, you'd better have it ready for Apple's review by March 27.

Mozilla confirmed yesterday a critical vulnerability in the newest version of Firefox, and said it would plug the hole by the end of the month.

Although the patch won't be added to Firefox before next week's Pwn2Own browser hacking challenge, researchers won't be allowed to use the flaw, according to the contest's organizer.

Palm is reporting dramatically lower sales of its WebOS-based smartphones. It seems the once-dominant maker of PDAs has nowhere to go but down and its plummeting fast, making it a potential target for acquisition by a smartphone competitor.

The barrier for using XP mode virtualization in Windows 7 just got lower. Unfortunately, for millions of Windows 7 users, the barrier is still high enough to exclude them from leveraging the XP mode functionality.

Just a few weeks after Microsoft pulled the plug on its Windows EBS (Essential Business Server), IBM has beefed up its own pre-integrated package for small and medium-sized businesses, called Lotus Foundations.

New versions of Lotus Foundations will now include a copy of DB2 Express-C database server, said Caleb Barlow, who is IBM's director for solutions development for small and medium-sized businesses. The addition will not raise the price of Lotus Foundations, he promised.

Malware-tainted memory cards may have ended up on as many as 3,000 HTC Magic phones, a greater number than first suspected, Vodafone said Friday.

The problem came to light earlier this month after an employee of Panda Security plugged a newly ordered phone into a Windows computer, where it triggered an alert from the antivirus software.

Apple could sell more iPads in the first three months of availability than it sold original iPhones in the same period, according to sources quoted by the Wall Street Journal.

Novell is ready to begin beta testing its Pulse enterprise social networking and collaboration suite.

Attendees at next week's BrainShare conference will be the first to get access to the beta preview version of Pulse, which Novell plans to launch in final form in the second half of this year.

Sometime in the next few weeks, Microsoft will reveal features, services and shortcomings for Windows Phone 7 in the enterprise. It will be one of those good news/bad news moments for corporate IT departments.

Google has patched 11 vulnerabilities in the Windows version of Chrome, including one that earned its finder the first $1,337 check from the company's new bug bounty program.

With chip makers continuing to increase the number of cores they include on each new generation of their processors, perhaps it's time to rethink the basic architecture of today's operating systems, suggested Dave Probert, a kernel architect within the Windows core operating systems division at Microsoft.

The HTML5 specification could be a game-changer in the rich Internet application realm, but representatives of Microsoft and Adobe Systems, both of which have proprietary plug-ins for Web applications, remained confident Thursday in their companies' Web strategies.

Is there anything Google doesn't want to own? Apparently not, judging by this week's news. Google is reaching out to AT&T and Sprint with its Nexus One handset and is apparently plotting a takeover of U.S. living rooms, according to the New York Times. Meanwhile, the other G-men -- the feds -- have been trying to shut down whistle-blowing site Wikileaks and are snooping around Facebook. And the dot-com domain just turned 25, yet still seems as youthful and irresponsible as ever. Do you have the inside intel to ace this week's quiz? Give yourself 10 points for each correct answer.