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February 12th, 2011 by Grace
Google has long been known as one of the premier companies on the web. From dominance of the search market, their own Operating System (Google Chrome OS), Browser and then they came up with a way to make the internet even faster, really fast. Their SPDY (SPEEDY) technology as it is called, they say allows for 50% faster web page loading. More realistically it comes to around a 20% increase but it does speed things up, a lot.
There is a downside to the whole deal, for the technology is still in beta testing phase. It works only if the web server and browser used, are on the same page. This means that both have to be using the SPDY technology for it to benefit. Using Chrome(which is Google’s own browser) allows faster access to say, Gmail or other services offered by Google.
It may be a long way till it gets into the mainstream net but rest assured, a beta today is a sure release tomorrow (after they patent it of course!)
December 10th, 2010 by Grace
Web services are Web based applications that use open, XML-based standards and transport protocols to exchange data with clients. Web services are developed using Java Technology APIs and tools provided by an integrated Web Services Stack called Metro. The Metro stack consisting of JAX-WS, JAXB, and WSIT, enable you to create and deploy secure, reliable, transactional, interoperable Web services and clients. The Metro stack is part of Project Metro and as part of GlassFish, Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE), and partially in Java PlatForm, Standard Edition (Java SE). GlassFish and Java EE also support the legacy JAX-RPC APIs.
Project GlassFish replaces the Java Web Services Developer Pack, our previous release vehicle for providing new web services between releases of the Sun Java System Application Server.
October 10th, 2010 by Grace
XML Web services are the fundamental building blocks in the move to distributed computing on the Internet. Open standards and the focus on communication and collaboration among people and applications have created an environment where XML Web services are becoming the platform for application integration. There are probably as many definitions of XML Web Service as there are companies building them, but almost all definitions have these things in common:
• XML Web Services expose useful functionality to Web users through a standard Web protocol.
• XML Web services provide a way to describe their interfaces in enough detail to allow a user to build a client application to talk to them.
• XML Web services are registered so that potential users can find them easily. This is done with Universal Discovery Description and Integration (UDDI).
August 10th, 2010 by Grace
Remember that Watchfire was acquired by IBM early this year? Well, they sure aren�t wasting time as they will now officially release IBM Rational AppScan 7.7. This new improved Web application security tool is based on Watchfire’s AppScan. This product basically identifies, validates and reports on gaps in Web applications. However, the latest version has new features (i.e. Scan Expert and State Inducer) designed to make the product more user-friendly for those who have not much background in application testing. It also includes recorded Web-based training (now that one is useful to me) to instruct users on application security and industry standard compliance.
Source: Eweek
May 10th, 2010 by sayuri
If you thought that reading off RSS through your mobile phone was text-heavy, very little images, slow, and cumbersome, you’re not alone. This was more likely due to both your smartphone’s old hardware and likewise integrated web browser. With the introduction of better and more technologically capable smartphones, you may be expecting some improvements with the browser as well. Well, here comes Skyfire to make your mobile web viewing so much better.
The new mobile browser brings the true internet (like you’d experience from your desktop or laptop computer) to Windows Mobile smartphones. Flash-advertisements, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook – any and all web-pages load in speedy fashion thanks to Skyfire’s behind-the-scenes server-magic. With integrated Flash support, animated/interactive advertisements come to life, embedded videos play in the browser, and Flash-based web-pages are finally viewable.
Available for Windows Mobile 5 and 6. It can be integrated whether your smartphone is touch or non-touchscreen. It is currently still under beta testing.
More info on this site.
April 10th, 2010 by Grace
Ooh� and who said the internet isn�t exciting? RBN (Russian Business Network), a notorious Russian online gang which has recently closed their St. Petersburg IP address (but has apparently established themselves elsewhere in cyberspace, yet continuously moving to avoid detection), is said to be linked to a November iFrame injection attack of Monster.com an online employment service company. The attack, caused by a NeoSplit or a malware tool, inserted code into pages that then caused systems to download a virus. Monster.com has reported that they�ve already cleaned all the affected Web pages and is now working with law enforcement on the matter.
Source: eweek.com
March 10th, 2010 by Grace
The information search engine, Ask.com has released AskEraser, a new tool that can be considered as the first step (of many) in handing over the rightful control of privacy to its users. According to EPIC’s Marc Rotenberg, this cool tool prevents from storing any search data. It can completely delete search queries and any other associated information from the site�s servers. This includes complete texts of queries, IP addresses, user ID�s, and session ID�s. Users can find the link for the AskEraser tool on the upper right corner of the search engine’s homepage and search results pages and can be turned off anytime. AskEraser is available now in the U.S. and in the UK — and will be deployed globally in 2008.
Source: Newsfactor
July 21st, 2009 by Yalung
When it comes to paying off your bills and monthly expenses, online banking has certainly made life easier. Most banks today have embraced the gifts of technology and we can see that with online access normally on their websites.
So when you want to make money transfers and bills payments in a hurry, you don’t have to go out and get to the nearest bank to do so. Simply register with your bank and do all your transactions online. It is surely lesser of a problem especially when you want to beat deadline of payments today.
June 16th, 2009 by Grace
One of the founders of Yahoo and Flicker was apparently pissed enough at the two internet giants, Microsoft for messing with them and Google for not taking them in, that they have come up with their own crowd-sourcing program called “HUNCH”. Coined as a rival to Yahoo’s Answers and Google’s other sites, it’s aim is to get search results for what is popularly accepted by more people as the right answer to a specific question. More closer to the social internet compared to the search engines from the two other search giants, it takes information fro the many social networking web sites, indexes them and presents them not only to relevance but also according to popularity according to the millions of other users who may have searched for the same information. Continue reading ‘Yahoo Pissed at Google and Microsoft, Just a “Hunch”!’
May 16th, 2009 by Grace
So they say, the software developers has in fact filed charges against specific people for what it says is a violation of the company’s rights to revenue that should have been generated by pay-per-click ads that has websites generating revenue from each and every click. The specified accused are being accused of imitating ads by the company and re-directing clicking customers to be to other sites that are far from their legitimate destinations, the Microsoft products page amongst others. Click-jacking may be the term for this, has hackers using legitimate advertising banners, substituting them with their own or with that of a preferred customer, thus robbing the legitimate advertiser of supposed revenues. Continue reading ‘Microsoft – Victim of Click Fraud !???!’
