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IBM announced today said that it had created code to secure mashups for businesses. Analysts say the technology will help companies merge data from websites or corporate systems to create rich Internet applications (RIAs) without the risk of exposing proprietary information.
“We’ve been working for quite a few years around Web 2.0 and mashups,” Rod Smith, a vice president with IBM, told CIO. “This technology will allow people to create a mashup without worrying that it will go phishing for personal data or financial information.”
December 05 2009 | Information | No Comments »
At Microsoft’s Mix08 conference for web designers and developers earlier in March, the firm showed off its developments and coming attractions, including a new focus on standards in Internet Explorer and an update to its Silverlight platform for browser-based applications.
“The internet is reshaping and transforming Microsoft’s existing products and services,†said Microsoft’s chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, speaking at the conference. However, this is nothing new; Microsoft founder Bill Gates expressed similar sentiments in 1995, in a now-famous memo titled The Internet Tidal Wave.
More than a decade later, making sense of the web remains Microsoft’s biggest challenge. Ozzie’s keynote was too vague to be truly compelling, but Mix08 was nevertheless the launch platform for some significant new elements in Microsoft’s internet efforts.
November 15 2009 | Information | No Comments »
Bullying not only occurs in playgrounds and schools but also in the internet as well. Cyberbullying is the use of information technology such as e-mail, instant messaging and chat rooms to harass someone. This is rampant because a bully can hide his or her true identity and thus makes it difficult for someone to trace and reprimand them. This can include acts like threatening, insulting, racial and ethnic teasing, gay bashing, infecting user’s computers with viruses and flooding an email inbox with spam. You could deal this by limiting the times you are online, not opening e-mails from someone you don’t know, not responding to threats, changing email addresses and Internet Service Providers and tracing the source. You could also report it to the police if necessary.
October 07 2009 | Information | No Comments »
The micro-blogging site has been hit again and again by malware, the first was from a bored teen who wrote code that quickly spread all over the place, the newest was more sinister with exploit laden PDF files and exploits galore sent to click-hungry users who clicked on just about anything they can click on. Finally, some word of hope from the site’s management, they will start to roll out secure and verified accounts that might be their answer to their growing rank in the hacker hit lists of the world. This would take the place of their crazy attitude of suspending accounts they suspect are from impersonators or are infected by malware, taking control of everything the account contains as if they owned it all the time. Lawsuit after lawsuit has landed them in hot water and made them one of the biggest malware targets this day and age of the social net. continue reading »
June 07 2009 | Application and Information | No Comments »
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Not quite, the new search engine may have some of the innovative concept of the cloud behind it, yet as with any other computer software, it’ll take time for the fruit to ripen (and knowing Microsoft, that’ll take a while). Microsoft has long been searching for an answer from the threat Google has been shadowing them with in the area of online advertising, a field totally ruled by the later search giant. They have tried on several occasions (heard they’re at it again) to get hold or control of Yahoo yet they have fallen short of their bullish tactics and failed to get at it fast. continue reading »
May 07 2009 | Application and Information | No Comments »
Seriously enough hey have named one of the world’s best hackers, Jeff Moss, aka “Dark Tangent” as an adviser to the Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber-terrorism task force to battle his own people. He is responsible for the creation of one of the biggest and baddest hacker groups the world over who flock year after year to Arizona to discuss the world’s fate as they continue to create malware and other online threats. He is seen as a genius yet he might be in trouble with his old buddies for turning his head towards the government and swearing to help protect it from attacks is quite new. hackers rarely make themselves known though some of them have been caught, the ones we encounter each and everyday as we surf the net remain anonymous to us. continue reading »
April 07 2009 | Information | No Comments »
Celebrities love it and just about anybody else on the planet too, Twitter has become a big name in the social net and the micro-blogging service is being seen as the next model for the coming evolutionary step of the internet. The new form of the internet can have thousands upon thousands of companies with servers and software, forming the cloud, all having programs that allows people to interact, blog and do just about anything they could do today, simply faster. No bog monopolies and no single entity in control (well, that might not be entirely true for Google does have the biggest set of data centers the world over and it is THE search engine), on the net who says this and that with all of us in tow. continue reading »
March 07 2009 | Application and Community and Information | No Comments »
Sure, we understand if you find the newest internet application cool. Internet applications are very useful tools in making your internet use better. But having to many put you in danger of having too much clutter that you stop knowing which is which and which goes where.
The first thing you should ask yourself is whether or not you need a particular internet application. Try to list down all the applications you have and sift through them in terms of their perceived usability and utility for you, as well as the frequency of your actual use. If you can make do without the ones at the bottom of the pile, don’t hesitate to dispose of them.
Cleaning up your internet application makes for better organization of your information without having you juggle constantly between one application and another.
February 18 2009 | Information | No Comments »
Many of today’s internet apps are being targeted for use on the cloud where data is synced and stored for retrieval anytime of the day, wherever you may be. A good sample would be the famed Apple MobileMe system which is a way to synchronize data from all your apple gadgets all over the place saving them in the cloud allowing you to sync each and every device to keep them updated. may they be photos, videos, email and all the contents of your address book, all are saved up to the cloud where you can configure the system to save or sync them to all your devices at a specific time.
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January 11 2009 | Application and Information | No Comments »
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UsernameCheck is for the users who are akin to subscribe to every service that comes in the internet every few weeks or months, and tries to secure their customized their usernames. And if one day that service becomes popular, you will have your very own unique and cool username all for yourself. How it works is pretty simple. All you have to do is provide your preferred username and the program will then ping around 45 services available and then return with a result of whether that name is available to all the services that it has pinged. It will say either taken or available. Its that simple. If the name you typed in is taken, it can not tell you whether the owner is you or anybody else. It just works in Firefox. Hopefully developers can come up with an update so it can work across different platforms.
November 24 2008 | Information | No Comments »
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