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October 7th, 2008 by Grace
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Microsoft has at last shown some Web 2.0 innovations with its Web based application suite. They have recently released the Microsoft Office Live Premium. And by far this is the best new economy Web 2.0 internet move, Microsoft has undergone for a very long, long time. But Microsoft’s first move in this undertaking, that is looking for another percentage of the world’s weakening economy, is to ask the users how much they are willing to shell out for the service or the app. Microsoft Office Live is the first real step that the company took on its own. As it turns out, Microsoft’s web services had no serious efforts in chasing Google with its different undertakings and releases these past few months. Microsoft runs the Hotmail service through the Web 2.0. And the Windows Live Mail, and its Virtual Earth, One Care and many others.
August 22nd, 2008 by Grace
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Many people are wondering what is Social Bookmarking all about and how did it became such a popular trend with the Internet users nowadays? Through filing a site in your bookmark list, anyone searching for that identical type of information can do a search at the bookmark site and find the sites that you have bookmarked. It is like a search engine without all the junk.
One of the cool features about these bookmarking sites is that your social bookmarks are with you anywhere you go and not just on your own computer. With Social Bookmarking, there are many diverse types of online communities that you can link and most will help you get an assured amount of traffic on your site. Social bookmarking is a way of presenting what interests you share with the rest of Internet world.
Through organizing your bookmarks online; you can aid yourself in getting organized or getting your contents exposed so that it will also help others at the same time to find a great content. All social bookmarking sites have a list or cloud of the tags created by users - and each user has an individual page with their own tags. A social bookmarking site also assists you to meet those other people who are interested in the same topics you are and who may also have the extended knowledge of web resources that you don’t know about.
July 1st, 2008 by Grace
The H.R. 404 bill which was passed July of last year is now pending before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee to clarify accountability language. The bill that was sponsored by Mr. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, focuses on customer service performance of different government service agencies. This includes Web interaction services. The bill, if approved, will eventually require the White House Office of Management and Budget to develop a system of performance metrics that would ensure citizen satisfaction. One incentive of H.R. 404 is that it would allow agency heads “to pay a cash award … to employees for demonstrated excellence in customer service.” Agencies will have to post customer-service guidelines and customer-service contact information on their public Websites.
Source: Government Executive
May 29th, 2008 by Yalung
We all know that hackers have their share of trying to prove their greatness and it comes in the form of giving problems and headaches towards big companies such as Comcast. Apparently this is not something new anymore but if word gets out, you may have a big problem in the form of customers in your hand.
This will surely question the ability of Comcast personnel on their ability to handle such security breaches. If Comcast knows any better, it should do something about it.
Some Comcast customers are complaining that they still cannot access their e-mail even after the company says it has fixed a problem caused by a hacker who got into their site.
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May 25th, 2008 by Yalung
If you talk about web services, Amazon is sure to be included among the top vendors when you talk about online selling options for the trendy people of today. Apparently the demand overshot the what Amazon had earlier expected and thus the need to further simplify things in the form of grouping and categorizing items up for grabs has become a need for them today.
Third-party sellers account for 30 percent of the units sold on Amazon, Bezos said.
The amount of bandwidth used by Amazon Web Services, which includes cloud computing and server storage space, recently surpassed the bandwidth used for its retail business, he said.
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May 21st, 2008 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.
March 15th, 2008 by Grace
The .NET Framework 2.0 is Microsoft’s managed code programming model and runtime for building applications on the Windows platform. Visual Studio is the professional development environment for building these applications. Together, Visual Studio and the .NET Framework 2.0 are designed to improve developer productivity and increase application reliability and security by providing a fully managed application environment.
The .NET Framework provides Web services support that enables the more than 3.5 million .NET developers to develop, discover, debug, deploy, and consume Web services using any of the more than 20 programming languages supported on .NET. Furthermore, the .NET Framework supports WS-I Basic Profile for cross-platform interoperability. This allows .NET applications to consume and expose Web services that interoperate with virtually any application, regardless of programming language or platform.
March 5th, 2008 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).
March 1st, 2008 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.
February 10th, 2008 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
