Archive for October, 2006
Explosive music websites (Computer Arts)
Creating a MySpace page for your band is as easy as falling off a log, but the difficulty is making it look good. MySpace is notorious for its unwieldy code and sparse CSS hooks, creating an uphill battle for anyone who wants their site to stand out from the crowd.
World’s first laptop with this built-in security (Addict 3D)
Lost a laptop loaded with sensitive files? In a few months it may not be such a big deal. Seagate Technology is poised to deliver the world’s first laptop hard disk drive with built-in encryption, or data-scrambling, capabilities.
Seagate Debuts New Hard Drives with Built-In Encryption (CRM Daily)
Seagate Technology will soon begin shipping its first hard drives with special encryption chips that will make it impossible to read data off the disk — or even boot up a PC — without some form of authentication. The world’s largest hard drive maker said its new DriveTrust Technology, which is designed to encrypt data stored on the hard drive automatically, will require users to have a key,
Seagate debuts content protection technology in hard drives (TG Daily)
Seagate today announced a first hard drive that integrates a hardware- and software-based content protection technology: Called “Drive Trust,” the security platform can prevent unauthorized access to data stored on the drive. It promises users a greater peace of mind when storing critical data, but the technology is very likely to end up as a new digital rights management (DRM) solution as well.
Seagate To Offer Full Disk Encryption (DesignTechnica)
Seagate plans to ship hard drives integrating its DriveTrust encryption technology which could prevent any un-authenticated use of a drive or its data.
Data Encryption Makes A Big Splash In Market (InternetWeek)
Recent headlines about lost or stolen laptops, tapes and devices, along with unauthorized access to data, have resulted in a big storage industry push to develop a variety of technologies for encrypting data.
Favorite Concerts & Music Videos
October 30th, 2006
Book Review - CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland
Blogcritics.org, OH - 9 hours ago It is hard to believe that after ten years, there are still those who hard code styles in their HTML. CSS stands for "cascading style sheets".
RSS Replay, File Sleuth
MacNN, CA - Oct 26, 2006 iWisdom stores data in XML format, optionally publishing collections in HTML using a series of included XSL templates and cascading style sheets.
Book review: JavaScript Phrasebook
Computerworld, MA - Oct 26, 2006 The good news is that JavaScript is a lot more consistent across browsers than Cascading Style Sheets is, so you'll be able to do most of the JavaScript
Designing a more accessible web
BBC News, UK - 3 hours ago Website designer, Leonie Watson says: "There's a technology called Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) that allows you to control the way a page is displayed, such as
Internet Explorer 7.0
ABC News - 12 hours ago The typical consumer won't notice many things for designers under the hood, such as improved support for CSS (cascading style sheets), a fundamental
Go wild with widgets
Computerworld, MA - 8 hours ago based languages. Apple Dashboard based on HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), was first bundled with Mac OS X 10.4. Dashboard
Reichert's spokeswoman falsely boasts that her boss' website meets
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog, WA - 2 hours ago CSS, which stands for Cascading Style Sheets, is a language which describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language like HTML.
October 27th, 2006
NetLib(R) Awarded U.S. Patent for Its Data Encryption Solution Encryptionizer(R) (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
NetLib, a leading innovator of data encryption security software for the enterprise and developers, and a Microsoft certified partner, today announced it was awarded U.S. Patent number 7,069,591 for the technology behind its flagship data encryption solution, NetLib Encryptionizer .
Is the era of electronic keys coming? (TechWorld)
SanDisk’s secured thumb drive technology. Just as we carry keys to open doors and cars will we have to carry electronic keys to access computers? Sandisk’s new TrustedSignins product looks like an ordinary USB thumb drive but it combines a 32-bit controller with an embedded cryptographic engine to provide real-time encryption and tamper-resistant security so as to keep stored data safe.
Bizanga Receives Frost & Sullivan Excellence in Technology Award in the Field of E-mail Firewalls (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Frost & Sullivan bestows the 2006 Excellence in Technology Award on Bizanga in recognition of its development of the Intelligent Message Processor in the field of e-mail firewalls.
Creating Web Pages With Ajax (Slashdot)
Ravi writes “Asynchronous Javascript And Xml, popularly known as Ajax, is a combination of Javascript, XML and some coding on the server side. Even though this technology existed for years, many believe it was Google which brought it to the front by implementing it on its sites and thus raising it to the cult status it enjoys now. There is something magical in seeing a website update its content
Dojo Toolkit Aims to Get AJAX Developers Hooked (PC Magazine via Yahoo! News)
Alex Russell, project lead for the Dojo Toolkit, a popular AJAX framework, says it is like “crack” for developers.
The Continuing Development of CSS as a Web Standard (WebProNews)
Cascading style sheets were formally introduced by the W3C in 1997 and in the nine years since have made gradual progress to becoming a web standard. Although the W3C mandates style sheets instead of HTML formatting for internal styles, many web designers have been slow to adopt CSS. Graphic designers, especially, have been slow to accept CSS since it does not allow the complex designs made
Words Equals Money Free Videos
October 24th, 2006
Review: Microsoft Finally Catches Up to Rivals With Internet
FOX News - Oct 20, 2006 the standards side, IE 7 does a much better job than previous versions of the product at supporting key standards, such as Cascading Style Sheets support and
JavaServer Faces and AJAX for Google Fans
SYS-CON Media, NJ - 10 hours ago is your new custom Renderer, which is in charge of the markup rendered to the client, including resources needed such as JavaScript libraries and style sheets.
Business Articles
October 21st, 2006
D-Link Debuts Its Most Powerful Draft 802.11n Wireless Network Family for Large Homes, Small Businesses and Gamers (Broadcast Newsroom)
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ — D-Link, the end-to-end networking solutions provider for consumers and business, is now shipping its most powerful home networking routers and adapters yet using the latest Draft 802.11n wireless technology.
Acacia Technologies Licenses Multi-Dimensional Bar Code Technology to Dell Inc. (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—-Acacia Research Corporation announced today that VData, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary that is part of the Acacia Technologies group, a leader in technology licensing, has entered into a license with Dell Inc. covering a portfolio of patents that apply to certain multi-dimensional bar codes.
ISMA End-to-End Video Encryption Specification Released after Extensive Interoperability Tests (Broadcast Newsroom)
SAN FRANCISCO, BUSINESS WIRE — A specification offering true end-to-end video content protection, ISMACryp 1.1, has been released to the industry by the Internet Streaming Media Alliance, a trade association developing open standards for the IPTV industry.
Creating Web Pages With Ajax (Slashdot)
Ravi writes “Asynchronous Javascript And Xml, popularly known as Ajax, is a combination of Javascript, XML and some coding on the server side. Even though this technology existed for years, many believe it was Google which brought it to the front by implementing it on its sites and thus raising it to the cult status it enjoys now. There is something magical in seeing a website update its content
October 18th, 2006
How India uses technology against terror
rediff.com - Oct 15 9:09 AM
The border force is in the process of installing Israeli-made long-range recce and observation system, a radar-based system capable of tracking moving vehicles or humans within a 40-km radius.Save to My Web
Security, storage fastest growing IT segments
The Star Online - Oct 15 4:56 PM
PETALING JAYA: Security and storage have been identified as the fastest growing information technology (IT) segments among mid-sized businesses in Malaysia and Singapore.Save to My Web
Anhui gets auto electronics trade union
China Daily - 2 hours, 0 minute ago
Anhui Automobile Electronics Trade Union, initiated by Chery Automobile Co Ltd, Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Co Ltd (JAC), China Electronics Corporation (CEC) No 38 Research Institute, Hefei University of Technology and Anhui Association of Automobile Manufacturers, was founded in Wuhu, southeast of East China’s Anhui Province.Save to My Web
Voting catches up with technology: Optical scanners put to the test in Bethlehem
Republican American - Oct 15 2:11 AM
BETHLEHEM — Laws did away with the party lever years ago. Now, technology is doing away with the lever altogether.Save to My Web
October 15th, 2006
Opera s Hakon Wium Lie compares IE7 to Ford Pinto
ZDNet Blogs - He used to work for the W3C on style sheets - what s more, in 1994 he proposed the concept of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). He s also written a book on CSS. So you won t come across many more qualified people to talk about CSS compliance. This is
The Daily WTF: Boxes And Boxes Of Boxes
NewsFactor Network - Cascading Style Sheets are an excellent tool used by web developers to put the repetitive formatting details — font Tahoma, color Mauve, weight Bold, etc — in a single, easy to maintain place. Of course, no developer actually expects to work on a
Simon Willison’s Weblog: Two revolutionary features in Opera 9
NewsFactor Network - Added support for XSLT 1.0 and the XSLTProcessor constructor. Added support for XPath 1.0. Added support for DOM level 2 Style Sheets and associated parts of DOM level 2 CSS. Implemented designMode for rich text editing. Added support for the
RollOut: Adobe’s Flex 2.0
Network Computing - No browser renders Cascading Style Sheets in perfect W3C compliance. JavaScript still has flaws. All this can make Ajax development–especially without the benefit of frameworks or toolkits–the sole domain of the IT guru. But with its release of
ESB (enterprise service bus)
Network World Fusion - For example, using XML style sheets , an ESB can transform message content from one format to another. Applications don’t need to adhere to a specific format, and data no longer needs to be sent to a central location for transformation. An ESB treats
October 12th, 2006
Software combats email attacks and blocks spam.
ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release), NY - 14 hours ago It enables organizations to address Sarbanes-Oxley, GLBA, and HIPAA by leveraging record ID matching, encryption routing, and compliance reports that augment
Byte-Size Approach Leads to the Right-Size Solution
Design News, MA - 13 hours ago Or, if you need strongly encrypted data, you can implement the AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) or Triple DES (Data Encryption Standard) algorithms on an 8
VHDL udpate safeguards IP
EETimes.com - 13 hours ago approval, the revision will bring Property Specification Language (PSL) assertions into VHDL and will add capabilities for intellectual-property (IP) encryption
The China Financial Certificate Authority Certifies the Authenex(R
Yahoo! News (press release) - 7 hours ago The tokens come with two hardware-level functionalities. First is on-the-fly 128-AES encryption of all certificates, user IDs and passwords.
US Credit Unions Protect Member Data With NeoScale Encryption
Yahoo! News (press release) - 11 hours ago solutions, today announced that credit unions throughout the United States have adopted NeoScale CryptoStor Tape solutions for encryption of customer data.
Implementing Mobile Security at The Ritz London
Security Park, UK - 11 hours ago IT department. Richard said After trialling Pointsec s encryption software, I made it mandatory on every mobile device. In
October 9th, 2006
Finland's Outokumpu Technology to list on Helsinki Stock Exchange
International Herald Tribune, France - 17 hours ago AP. HELSINKI, Finland Outokumpu Oyj.'s Outokumpu Technology business will begin trading on the Nordic Exchange in Helsinki starting Oct.
CSP Technology to launch a new tougher and upgraded camera version
Security Park, UK - 15 hours ago CSP Technology has announced a new tougher and upgraded camera version of their Saturn and Apollo Domes. Both models will include
Internet & Technology
Investor’s Business Daily (subscription) - 2 hours ago Similarly, New York stepped to the plate for the project at Luther Forest Technology Park in Saratoga Springs, 15 miles north of Albany.
Investor s Business Daily Cites Advanced Cell Technology s
Business Wire (press release), CA - 16 hours ago ALAMEDA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. (OTCBB:ACTC), applying proprietary human embryonic stem (ES) cell
October 6th, 2006
Different ways to work with Web fonts (Tech Republic)
The CSS2 Specification outlines numerous ways to size your fonts in Web applications. In this week’s Web Development column, Tony Patton explores font sizing and discusses the best way to manipulate fonts in your application.
Bankers Deploying ERF Wireless’ CryptoVue(TM) Encryption System with Motorola’s Broadband Technology to Add Secure (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
LEAGUE CITY, Texas—-ERF Wireless Inc.’s specialized data encryption solution is being deployed along with Motorola Inc.’s wireless broadband technology by banks in Gulf Coast states to upgrade bank branch financial transaction and data processing capacity while preventing service interruptions caused by hurricanes and other natural disasters.
Encryption: Mobility Electronics Selects Spectra Logic For Backup And Encryption (DataStorage-DataStorageConnection)
Mobility Electronics, Inc. recently purchased a Spectra T120 with BlueScaleT Encryption to store sensitive employee data, e-mail and accounting information, which demands an extra layer of security.
StompSoft s Portable Vault Data Encryption Software Receives U3 Certification (PR Web)
StompSoft Inc., a recognized manufacturer of award winning backup, system utility, and online security/privacy software today announced that Portable Vault U3 Edition, it s highly regarded data encryption software for U3 enabled USB keychain drives has received coveted U3 certification. (PRWEB Oct 3, 2006)
October 3rd, 2006