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With 'Ubiquity,' Mozilla chooses functionality over security
Oct 08. 08 by Chris Soghoian
http://news.cnet.com/ — How popular can a piece of software get before being in 'beta' is no longer a legitimate excuse for known software flaws? Or, to put it another way, is it responsible to allow hundreds of thousands of people to install your product, when you know ahead of time that doing so opens...
tags: editor's picks, Mozilla, Firefox, security, web standards, ubiquity, browser development
Microsoft Revamps Application Virtualization, Management Tools
Oct 08. 08 by John Fontana
http://www.cio.com — New version of Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack arrives; desktop management toolset has updates to application virtualization and asset management tools. Early next year, you'll see some fruit from Microsoft's acquisition of desktop virtualization firm Kidaro.
tags: editor's picks, desktop application, virtualization, tools, IT, deployment
Clouds, Black Holes and Roach Motels
Oct 08. 08 by Robert McGarvey
http://www.cioupdate.com — Data portability (or lack thereof) is one of the biggest issues in the cloud. Are computing clouds just fancy roach motels, or, to ask the question bluntly: once data is uploaded to a cloud can it ever be retrieved? Or is the situation analogous to the roach motels where the cri...
tags: editor's picks, cloud computing, data protection, portability, IT, infrastructure
Give Web Users What They Really Want
Oct 08. 08 by Jay Conrad Levinson
http://www.pcworld.com — What people want online is something guerrillas think about a lot. Whether it's for fun or work or something else, understanding consumers' motives once they log on is a necessity. But the experts don't seem to agree on what people want.
tags: editor's picks, marketing, advertising, Web design, strategy, industry trends, internet advertising
MySpace, Facebook Lead Mobile Social Networking
Oct 07. 08 by Marin Perez
http://www.informationweek.com — It appears that mobile social networking users are going to same places they would on the desktop, as new data from ABI Research said MySpace and Facebook are by far the top mobile social networks. In a new report, titled "Mobile Social Networking User Snapshot," ABI surveyed 50...
tags: editor's picks, social network, social networking, MySpace, Facebook, mobile, mobile strategy
Microsoft Fueling Cloud Computing Initiatives
Oct 07. 08 by Marius Oiaga
http://news.softpedia.com — Via a partnership with BroadSoft, Microsoft is fueling Cloud computing initiatives, while at the same time establishing a new foothold for its Software + Services business strategy. The two companies have put together a unified communications offering that involves a marriage bet...
tags: editor's picks, cloud computing, cloud, Software plus Service, SAS, S+S, hosted services
Facebook Adds Microsoft Live Search
Oct 07. 08 by Matt McGee
http://searchengineland.com — Extending a partnership that dates back to 2006, Facebook today added Microsoft's Live Search to its offerings, giving users in the U.S. a way to search the web without leaving Facebook.com. An announcement on the Live Search Blog also says Microsoft adCenter will display paid se...
tags: editor's picks, Facebook, Live Search, search, integrated, web applications, Google
7 Ingredients Of Good Corporate Design
Oct 06. 08 by György Fekete
http://www.smashingmagazine.com — It's hard to define design. We have a broad range of definitions to choose from: design refers not only to graphic design, but to design strategy, too. It is used in a variety of industries, such as engineering, architecture and Web design. This means that design is not just gra...
tags: editor's picks, design, designer, designer tools, strategic planning, graphic designer, graphics
Project releases version 2.0 of open source .Net
Oct 06. 08 by John Fontana
http://www.thestandard.com — The Mono Project, which develops an open source implementation of the .Net Framework, released the long-awaited 2.0 version on Monday. Mono 2.0 offers complete API compatibility with ASP.Net and Windows Forms applications, and is compatible with desktop and server components of ...
tags: editor's picks, open source, .Net, .NET Framework, ASP.NET, compatibility, interoperability
RIA Conference Keynotes: Adobe & Microsoft
Oct 06. 08
http://web2.sys-con.com — At the 6th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo - October 20-22, 2008 in San Jose, CA - SYS-CON Events is delighted to be presenting major industry keynotes from the two industry executives with overall responsibility for both of those massive richer-web initiatives...
tags: editor's picks, ria, AJAX, conference, Adobe, Microsoft, Scott Guthrie
Microsoft will float cloud OS this month Oct 02. 08 by John Fontana
http://www.networkworld.com — Microsoft at the end of the month will unveil its "Cloud OS," the secretive Ray Ozzie project that provides a virtual Windows operating system platform for the rapid development, deployment, and maintenance of Internet services and applications. Microsoft will unveil details lat...
tags: editor's picks, cloud computing, Microsoft, Red Dog, operating systems, web services, .NET Framework
3 top tools for branding in a Web 2.0 world
Oct 02. 08 by John Gray
http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/20723.asp — As more sites and services emerge, retaining your brand identity in the Web 2.0 space is bound to get more complex. Get some helpful tips for sites and strategies that will make you stand out in the clutter. One of the struggles inherent to marketing is maintaining control of on...
tags: editor's picks, Web 2.0, web services, marketing, brand building, internet marketing, advertising
15 Useful Batch Image Processors
Oct 02. 08
http://www.smashingmagazine.com — Whether you’re a Web developer, Web designer or blogger, you've probably had to deal with the headache of converting many images to different sizes and formats. It's not much fun if you have to convert all of them by hand. Batch image processing can reduce this process from...
tags: editor's picks, designer, designer tools, images, graphics, resize, process
Open Source Census Gaining Steam
Oct 02. 08 by Lora Bentley
http://www.itbusinessedge.com — When the Open Source Census launched in April, many observers thought it got off to a pretty slow start. In the first day, fewer than 100 machines were scanned for open source. Organizaers, however, weren't discouraged. Kim Weinz, a VP at census sponsor OpenLogic, reminded me at ...
tags: editor's picks, open source, enterprise, Linux, Windows, operating systems, web applications
Microsoft Announces Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0
Sep 30. 08 by Darryl K. Taft
http://www.eweek.com — Microsoft announces Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0, and says the overall development strategy revolves around five pillars. The first pillar involves the Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2010, formerly codenamed "Rosario." Microsoft has announced the name of the next ...
tags: editor's picks, Visual Studio, .NET Framework 4.0, Visual Studio Team System, Rosario, .NET Framework, Visual Studio 2010
Microsoft offers the 'SQL Server experience'
Sep 30. 08 by David Neal
http://www.vnunet.com — Microsoft has launched an SQL Server 2008 Experience web site offering new resources for customers and partners. Three separate sections offer specific information for IT Professionals, Decision Makers and Developers. Other content is designed to appeal to all and comes under th...
tags: editor's picks, SQL Server, IT, developers, business development, Microsoft
Why Talk When You Can Text?
Sep 30. 08
http://www.emarketer.com — The average mobile subscriber in the US sent and received more SMS text messages than mobile telephone calls during Q2 2008, according to Nielsen. This was the second consecutive quarter in which the average number of text messages was significantly higher than the average number...
tags: editor's picks, texting, text-message, mobile devices, communication, social networking, marketing
ResellersPanel Launches PHP Script Installation Website
Sep 30. 08
http://www.webhosting.info — ResellersPanel, a web hosting provider, today announced that it has recently launched elefanteinstaller.com - a new website, which offers detailed descriptions, demo versions and the free installation of more than 30 open source PHP scripts, among them phpBB2, WordPress, Joomla, ...
tags: editor's picks, host, hosting, PHP, scripts, web applications, web services
Microsoft, Wash. State Sue Over 'Scareware'
Sep 29. 08 by Richard Adhikari
http://www.internetnews.com — Microsoft and the Attorney-General of Washington State, Rob McKenna, are teaming up to crack down on scareware. The term refers to pop-up ads that often show up behind some Web pages and offer to scan users' PCs, find some errors and direct the users to a Website where they can d...
tags: editor's picks, marketing, pop-ups, advertising, security, malware, scareware