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Defense kicks off open-source encryption program (Government Computer News)
The Defense Department has launched a new program to encourage the use of open- source encryption software within DOD systems.
How to Increase the Page Rank of Your Web Site and Attract More Visitors (Web Host Directory)
What is the Page Rank (PR) of your web site? Never heard of it you answer and what difference will it make for generating more sales? It’s a little green bar you will see on the Google Tool Bar if you have it installed.
GWT Java AJAX Programming (Slashdot)
simon_kehler writes “The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java AJAX framework that provides an easy to use programming paradigm for web developers using the Java programming language. It is one of the more recent entrants into this field, but has been gaining a lot of traction and popularity. GWT Java AJAX Programming authored by Prabhakar Chaganti and published by Packt Publishing addresses the use …
April 4th, 2007
Acacia Technologies Licenses Credit Card Fraud Protection Technology to The Men’s Wearhouse (Broadcast Newsroom)
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.,
Why Encryption Didn’t Save TJX (PC Magazine via Yahoo! News)
News Analysis: The largest data theft ever is a case in point that encryption is not a security cure-all.
GWT Java AJAX Programming (Slashdot)
simon_kehler writes “The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java AJAX framework that provides an easy to use programming paradigm for web developers using the Java programming language. It is one of the more recent entrants into this field, but has been gaining a lot of traction and popularity. GWT Java AJAX Programming authored by Prabhakar Chaganti and published by Packt Publishing addresses the use …
Acacia Technologies Licenses Pop-up Advertisement Technology to MLB Advanced Media, LP (Broadcast Newsroom)
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.,
Storage Technology & Network Solutions (Computer Technology Review)
Second article in a series on encrypting backed up data stored to tape or other mobile media. When it comes to encrypting your backup data: Encryption is easy. Key management is hard. The (forgive the pun) key to encryption is managing keys.
April 1st, 2007
Apple of Our Eye: Macs Save Money
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Google’s Personalized Home Page Gets Many New Looks
InternetNews.com - The themes were implemented with a CSS ( define ) framework and designed to scale. Google said the technology will let it push out hundreds of new themes if it so chooses. When and if more themes arrive depends on how well the roll out goes and user
Blogspot and SEO
WebProNews - I use
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Google’s Next-Gen of Sneakernet
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March 20th, 2007
Plenty Of Free Web Sites Popping Up To Help Pick An ETF
Beurs.nl - Plenty Of Free Web Sites Popping Up To Help Pick An ETF Dinsdag 13 Maart 2007 00:31 By Murray Coleman With a Within a month, XTF says it expects to complete its database posted on the site. XTF is an advisor and creator of fund-of-funds using
McAfee names most risky domains
Silicon Republic - McAfee based the report on its extensive site database of 8.1 million of the most trafficked websites, representing more than 95pc of the trafficked web. It used its SiteAdvisor tool to add intuitive red, yellow or green ratings to sites and search
March 2007
ZDNet Blogs - has cooked up a ” MySpace for financial pros ” and mocks the idea of bean counters being all Web 2.0ish. I’ll be interested to see whether this site Bellini also added that database revenue is expected to be up 11 percent to $918 million. New
Experts Available to Discuss Study Claiming More Children Exposed to
Forbes - Jerry Ropelato is the CEO of a Web review site, called TopTenREVIEWS.com, which reviews than 45 million Internet users have access through their ISPs to RuleSpace’s Master Database, which contains in excess of 61 million categorized Web
Cyber-Criminals and Their Tools Getting Bolder, More Sophisticated
Washington Post - So when Hoyler’s bank issued him new account numbers and passwords, the hackers got all that information, too. His health insurance, online shopping and Social Security data went into a file in a master database at a Web site controlled by the
Owner of Durham drive-in theater dies
News 14 Raleigh / Durham - Drive-ins.com, an online industry database, says on its Web site that there are slightly more than 400 drive-ins open across the country, just 10 percent of the number that existed at the industry’s height in 1958. Eight of those remain in North
Invicta Group, Inc. Stock Hot Link.com Launch
MSN MoneyCentral - The company offers an Internet database of 40 million travel enthusiasts discounted travel products: airline tickets, hotel rooms, tour packages, cruise cabins and car rentals on the Internet 24/7 through their B-2-C web site known as www
March 14th, 2007
Debug your Web code with Firebug (NewsForge)
Developing Web sites isn’t as straightforward a task as it used to be at the turn of the century. With an influx of new tools, technologies, and development methodologies, a Web page is no longer a string of plain ol’ HTML, but instead a complex mix of stylesheets, markup languages, and scripts. Debugging this complicated blend is no easy task. Firebug is an open source add-on to the Firefox Web …
Real-World AJAX Book Preview: The Essential AJAX Pieces (Linux World)
AJAX isn’t so much a single technology as it is a set of technologies that are now all part of most contemporary browsers. Because of this factor, it’s sometimes difficult to explain what precisely AJAX is, especially the degree to which XML or JavaScript predominates.
March 8th, 2007
snom technology and BorderWare Technologies Announce Strategic Partnership to Increase VoIP Security (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)
snom technology AG, developer and manufacturer of Voice-over-IP telephones, and BorderWare Technologies, a leading provider of messaging security, privacy and compliance solutions, today announced a strategic partnership to combine snom phones with the SIPassure VoIP Security Gateway solution.
Riverbed Extends Acceleration to HTTPS on Intranets (ComputerWire)
Riverbed Technology Inc will today announce the new version (v4.0) of the RiOS operating system that runs on its Steelhead appliances, with the addition of acceleration of internal SSL apps.
GCN Insider | Products and trends that affect the way government uses technology (Government Computer News)
Virtual Private Networks that use Secure Sockets Layer encryption to create a secure tunnel have been gaining ground for some years on traditional VPNs, which typically use Internet Protocol Security, or IPSec.
TraceSecurity Announces New Encryption Tool To Protect Data in Transit Across Networks (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
TraceSecurity, a leading provider of on-demand security compliance management solutions, now offers TraceTunnel for customers of SYMITAR, the most widely adopted core processing platform by America’s credit unions.
March 5th, 2007
A Brief History of Ajax (Developer.com)
“Ajax” is a recently coined term used to describe the business of programming highly interactive web-based interfaces using nothing more than HTML, Cascading Style Sheets, and a good dose of JavaScript.
Homeland Security offers details on Real ID (CNET)
States have until 2013 to federalize licenses; rules don’t require encryption on new IDs to protect drivers’ privacy.
“Real-World AJAX” and “Real-World Adobe Flex” Books To Debut at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo (Linux World)
SYS-CON Books (www.books.sys-con.com) has announced the shippind dates of two uniquely comprehensive and up-to-date books devoted to every aspect of AJAX technologies and Rich Internet Applications in the greater context of the overall ‘Web 2.0′ spectrum. Both books will debut at the upcoming AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East which will take place March 19-21, 2007 in New York City. There …
March 2nd, 2007
INDIANA’S OLDEST COLLEGE NEWSPAPER (DePauw)
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Acacia Technologies Licenses Fraud Protection Technology to Outspoke Technologies (Broadcast Newsroom)
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.,
Zix Corporation to Present at 3rd Annual Winter Technology & Healthcare Conference Hosted by Security Research … (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
DALLAS—-Zix Corporation , , the leader in hosted services for email encryption and e-prescribing, today announced Rick Spurr, the Company’s chief executive officer, will be presenting at the 3rd Annual Winter Technology & Healthcare Conference hosted by Security Research Associates.
Recalling a sent e-mail (The Record)
Did you ever inadvertently send a nasty e-mail about your boss — to your boss? One such legendary slip-up here at The Record occurred during the early days of computer text-messaging, before e-mail as we now know it.
Toshiba Secures Absolute Encryption (PC World via Yahoo! News)
Researchers at Toshiba Corp. have developed a method that they say makes it possible– barring a change in the laws of physics– to absolutely secure distribution of encryption keys across a network.
Toshiba secures quantum key distribution (InfoWorld)
( InfoWorld ) - Researchers at Toshiba have developed a method that they say makes it possible — barring a change in the laws of physics — to absolutely secure distribution of encryption keys across a network. Their system, which was unveiled at this week’s NanoTech 2007 exhibition in Tokyo, builds on quantum key distribution , which has been the subject for research and development …
February 24th, 2007
CSS Industries, Inc. Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend
MSN MoneyCentral - The Board of Directors of CSS Industries, Inc. CSS today declared a quarterly dividend of twelve cents per share on its outstanding shares of Common Stock. This dividend will be payable on March 20, 2007 to stockholders of record at the close of
Senior interactive designer
New Media Age - Your experience will include a very good grasp of Flash including excellent Actionscript, together with HTML, CSS and Javascript within accessibility and WAI guidelines. Your designs should display your conceptual mind and be contemporary and striking
Flex Toolkits
Network Computing - The third approach–in which Adobe has taken the lead–dispenses with CSS, the DOM, DHTML and JavaScript completely. Adobe’s Flex toolkit creates Flash objects, which encapsulate the RIA. Development is done using ActionScript and special markup
HD DVD DRM-cracking software
AME Info - SlySoft has released AnyDVD HD to enable people to remove AACS encryption from HD DVDs, according to DailyTech. This means the HD DVDs can be viewed without HDCP compliant graphics cards and displays. The software also removes CSS encryption and
February 21st, 2007
Prepress Training Solution Launches Four New Interactive Training
24-7PressRelease.com - Topics covered in this course include: preferences & setup, layout and project creation, palette management, libraries and master pages, style sheets, text and pictures, links and paths, output styles, PDFs, and postscript files. An advanced
Creative Notes
Mac Central - Using style sheets in QuarkXPress and InDesign is second nature, but did you know you can create graphics style sheets in Adobe Illustrator? James Dempsey shows you how. Looking for an easy way to share files with clients, but don’t want to deal with
Apache Jetspeed-2
eWeek - Jetspeed has broad support for a variety of standards including the basics for layout and design, such as CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and core portal technologies, such as the Java Portlet Standard. Probably the biggest weakness of Jetspeed is in
XChange International announce release of OfficialReport XT 3.0
Consumer Electronics Net - With the click of a button, users can obtain formatted listings of fonts, colour usage, style sheets, H&Js, picture fonts, picture colours, layout preferences and detailed picture usage. What s more, the built-in batch feature can make reports for
Purging Bloat to Fashion Sleek Software
New York Times - Microsoft has also removed the ability to create custom toolbars stocked with the features, fonts or style sheets you use most. In Office 2007, the only thing you can customize is something called the Quick Access Bar: a tiny row of unlabeled icons
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
Not Worth the Wait?
Egypt Today - Another major innovation of the Office 2007 suite is the proper implementation of style sheets simple document formats that can be applied with the click of a button. A style sheet creates an overall look and feel, applying coordinated colors
February 18th, 2007
Epicor, RSA Team On Encryption (socalTech.com)
Epicor|CRS, the retail solutions division of Irvine-based Epicor Software, said today that it is in a strategic technology alliance with RSA. Epicor said that it will use RSA’s Key Manager software witin its point of sale solutions. RSA’s product provides encryption key management…. (more)
Ram Page RSS Feeds (ASU Ram Page)
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So you call yourself a web professional? (The Register)
Code with the best of them Site offer With reports that UK online sales in the weeks before Christmas hit nearly 7.7bn, and with the emerging markets in the Far East stamping their mark on today’s online communities, it is a brave man that will bet against the web developing still further in terms of its importance in global financial markets.
Debate growing over data security (Baltimore Sun)
Privacy advocates urge encryption When Johns Hopkins officials announced this week that a courier had lost nine backup computer tapes containing personal data on 135,000 employees and patients, security specialists were critical, even though the information probably was destroyed without being compromised.
February 9th, 2007
ECIS Accuses Microsoft of Plotting HTML Hijack (BetaNews)
An industry coalition that has represented competitors of Microsoft in European markets before the European Commission stepped up its public relations offensive this morning, this time accusing Microsoft of scheming to upset HTML’s place in the fabric of the Internet with XAML, an XML-based layout lexicon for network applications.
MessageOne Wins Prestigious Law Technology News Award for Best 2006 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Provider (Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
MessageOne, the leading business continuity and email management company, today announced that it has won Law Technology News’ prestigious 2006 award for the best Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Provider.
Synplicity’s Open IP Encryption Methodology Wins 2007 DesignVision Award (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—-Synplicity, Inc. , a leading supplier of software for the design and verification of semiconductors, today announced its open IP encryption methodology has received a DesignVision Award in the system-level design tools category, which recognizes technologies, applications, products and services judged to be the most unique and beneficial to the industry.
MessageOne Wins Prestigious Law Technology News Award for Best 2006 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Provider (SYS-CON Media)
MessageOne, the leading business continuity andemail management company, today announced that it has won Law TechnologyNews’ (LTN) prestigious 2006 award for the best Disaster Recovery andBusiness Continuity Provider.
PR Newswire Summary of Technology Copy, Jan. 29, 2007 (SYS-CON Media)
Following is a summary of high technology news releases transmitted today by PR Newswire. The full text of these releases is available at the PR Newswire for Journalists, http://media.prnewswire.com/.
January 31st, 2007
January 2007
ZDNet Blogs - There will certainly be a cry for more limits on encryption technology, which has been spreading despite having been treated as a weapon by the United States for decades. Privacy advocates, myself included, will be asked again whether we were wrong
Citrix updates GoToMyPC
ZDNet UK - When this point was put to Citrix, the company responded in a statement that “in terms of security regarding the File Sync/transfer function, all file transfers are protected via end-to-end 128-bit encryption”. For remote printing, GoToMyPC allows
NewMarket Technology, Inc. Appoints Chief Technology Officer for
MSN MoneyCentral - Wireless gaming does not require the gaming participants to be on the casino floor in order to gamble, yet provides the encryption and security necessary to abide by gaming regulations. To facilitate the expansion, NewMarket recently announced
Rants: Height of Insecurity
Wired News - Instead, more people need to take their privacy into their own hands by using full-disk encryption. As you may already know, the U.S. government is already advocating this approach, since it fears federal employees may unintentionally disclose very
Thycotic Addresses Security and the Mobile Device Craze with Newest
PR.com - Secret Server 2.1 addresses this issue by providing AES 256 bit encryption along with SHA 512 for hashing. The implementation of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 256 bit encryption gives Secret Server the highest available encryption. This
Netscape Communicator v4.8
PC World - The download also includes Palm synch tools and 56-bit encryption for secure transactions. Several other applications come integrated as well, namely: Netscape Messenger, an e-mail client and contact manager; Netscape Composer, an HTML and text
VSIA Debates Top IP Issues at DesignCon 2007
Market Wire - VSIA Board Members and member companies will address IP Encryption, IP selection and IP verification in three different panels. In support of these discussions the organization recently released updated hard IP tagging standard, soft IP tagging
January 22nd, 2007
MTI Technology Facilitates Remote Recovery Services Business for Horry Telephone Cooperative to Assist Companies in … (FinanzNachrichten)
IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — MTI Technology Corporation , ( Nachrichten ) a multi-national provider of consulting services and comprehensive information infrastructure solutions, and Horry Telephone Cooperative (HTC), the nation’s largest telephone cooperative, jointly announced today “HTC E2IT Remote Recovery Services,” a technology solution to support a new remote data …
IGA Worldwide Debuts Next Generation In-Game Advertising Delivery and Reporting Technology (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK—-IGA Worldwide, Inc. the leading independent in-game advertising company, announced today the immediate availability of version 2.0 of its proprietary Radial in-game advertising technology, providing the foundation for IGA’s rapid expansion across a range of immersive gaming and digital content platforms.
Olixir Technologies Adds Robust Encryption Technology to Industry-Leading Family of High-Performance Ruggedized … (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
MILPITAS, Calif.—-Olixir Technologies, a provider of technologically advanced ruggedized, transportable data storage solutions, today announced that its popular Mobile DataVault family of high-performance ruggedized transportable external hard drives now includes powerful encryption software to provide a complete, secure solution for storing, archiving and transporting critical or sensitive …
January 16th, 2007
Acacia Technologies Acquires Rights to Patents for Tunable Laser Technology (Broadcast Newsroom)
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE — Acacia Research Corporation (Nasdaq:ACTG) (Nasdaq:CBMX) announced today that Acacia Patent Acquisition Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary that is part of the Acacia Technologies group, a leader in technology licensing, has acquired rights to patents relating to high bandwidth lasers used in fiber optic communication networks.
Vontu Wins IDG’s InfoWorld 2007 Technology of the Year Award for Best Data Leak Prevention (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Vontu, Inc., the leader in Data Loss Prevention solutions, today announced that it has won the 2007 Technology of the Year Award for Best Data Leak Prevention technology from IDG’s InfoWorld, a leading integrated media brand for strategic technology decision-makers.
Pre-Packaged Computer Network facilitates end-user set-up. (ThomasNet)
Shipped pre-configured to end-user location, Network V2 (NV2) provides small businesses with out-of-the-box network functionality. Customer surveys are taken to identify network requirements and occupational hardware needs; once specifications are defined, components are ordered from Dell, and Microsoft network software is installed. Customers can copy any working files to server and individual …
MobiTV Demonstrates First Ever Mobile WiMAX Broadcast TV Service (SYS-CON Media)
MobiTV, Inc., the global leader in mobile and broadband television and music services, today announced it will be demonstrating the first seamlessly unified multicast and unicast television solution for Mobile WiMAX. In addition, MobiTV will be demonstrating the integration of critical security and content protection layers through a partnership with NDS, the leading provider of technology …
Is Google Sending GoogleBot CSS Hunting: Google Crawling CSS Files? (Search Engine Roundtable)
A Cre8asite Forums thread links to a blog post named GoogleBot Requested a CSS File. This is not the first time I heard threads where people suspect GoogleBot is crawling their CSS files. But this one has the most discussion…
January 7th, 2007
Li’l Robot Dinosaur Comes to Life
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David Lynch’s Weird, Wired World
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Review: What’s New In Internet Explorer 7 RC1?
Intelligent Enterprise - Better RSS And CSS Support One of IE7’s most significant improvements over IE6 is its very usable built-in RSS support and reader. But in earlier versions of IE7, that support was buggy. (For details, check out Microsoft’s official IEBlog .) The names
Industry Wrapups
Philadelphia Business Journal - insurance system [Thursday] ‘Wild’ deal for Environmental Tectonics [Thursday] Reed Smith partners approve acquisition of Chicago firm [Thursday] Pep Boys to take charge for labor settlements [Wednesday] Binswanger sets up shop in Phoenix [Wednesday] CSS
January 4th, 2007
Anticipation of New User Interface Draws New RESX Distributors to
MSN MoneyCentral - RESX v6.3 is the highly anticipated redesign of the online reservation application, which includes a new user interface, updated workflow, improved navigation, an air pricing matrix, style sheets for corporate customization and branding, and a
Online design : UTC art department’s Web Media course gives students
TMCnet - Westbrook, the students were to include one Adobe Flash animation module, demonstrate proper use of the style sheets and markup language used on the Web, complete a project to recall image from a database and exhibit their sketch work done in the
SharePoint 2007 - Office 2007 Solutions from Encodex Technologies
24-7PressRelease.com - Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 has deep editing support for the technologies underlying Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services technology, such as ASP.NET 2.0, cascading style sheets, and Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation. Office
Chief Evangelist, ExitPath.com
PRWeb - Digital Print Management with new BPM tool. The new cBrain BPM tool makes it possible to create, edit and compile XSL style sheets and isolate and correct possible syntax errors and when error free, immediately produce a PDF document for verification
Microsoft, Apple eyed for AJAX alliance
Computerworld Australia - Well, what happens is, AJAX is actually, if you want to look at a set of standards that were [to] form a programming model, and those standards start off with DHTML and JavaScript and XML and there’s Cascading Style Sheets, there’s Web services
Reviews September 2006
Mac Addict - A Job Jacket is an XML file that contains detailed information about a project s anatomy, including such data as colors, style sheets, color management settings, print settings, page size, page count, contact information, and so on. A Job Jacket
Web 2.0: Ingredients For A Site Makeover
Information Week - Ajax combines several programming tools and interfaces including JavaScript, dynamic HTML (DHTML), Extensible Markup Language (XML), cascading style sheets (CSS), and the Document Object Model (DOM). That collection of tools can help bring about cost
January 1st, 2007
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