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September 30th, 2008

Security Hole in Adobe Flash Allows Free Amazon Movie Downloads

By Reuters
A security hole in Adobe Flash video server software, used to distribute movies and TV shows over the Internet, is giving users free access to record and copy from Amazon.com’s video streaming service. The Adobe Flash video server software doesn’t encrypt online content, but only orders sent to a video player such as [...]

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September 26th, 2008

How Online Fraudsters Are Using SaaS in Their Networks

By Chris Preimesberger
It’s now possible for anybody to purchase online criminal services on a monthly fee basis — if you know where to go. As the bad guys get more sophisticated, false bank Web sites are becoming harder to identify from legitimate ones. Even more caution is now needed to stop these frauds, a noted [...]

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August 25th, 2008

Google OpenSocial Spawns Sample Social Network

By Clint Boulton
Big news in application development for the Google OpenSocial effort: An open-source programmer who does not work for Google, Facebook or MySpace created a sample social Web site that will let other programmers test and deploy OpenSocial applications in a safe environment. The site could give OpenSocial some needed momentum.
Google’s OpenSocial API has [...]

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August 7th, 2008

AMD Backs OpenCL, Microsoft DirectX 11

By Scott Ferguson
In order to develop its ATI graphics, AMD is backing both the OpenCL programming language and Microsoft’s DirectX 11 APIs. The move means that AMD is looking for a way to differentiate its graphics from the Intel Larrabee initiative and Nvidia’s CUDA programming language for its general-purpose GPUs.
Advanced Micro Devices is throwing its [...]

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August 7th, 2008

Database Management Services

Author: Smit
Undoubtedly a comprehensive term, Database Management Services comprise of inclusive range of activities entailing handling database, keeping it up 24 by 7 on an optimum server and ensuring dynamism and accessibility with state-of-the-art upkeep of the database.
In the database management service, there exists a collection of interrelated files and a set of [...]

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August 6th, 2008

Amazon.com to Fund Elastra’s Cloud Computing Effort

By Clint Boulton
Amazon.com joins Bay Partners and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners in pumping $12 million in funding into cloud computing startup Elastra, which joins Salesforce.com, Etelos, Coghead, Bungee Labs and others in running enterprise applications and other software on the Internet.
Elastra, one of a slew of startups creating platforms that host and run software entirely [...]

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July 28th, 2008

Debian Linux Lenny Due in September

By Henry Kingman
The Debian project’s maintainer Luk Claes said July 21 he will freeze “testing” the “Lenny” tree “next week” as he prepares for the stable release of Debian Linux in September.
Open-source software developers have only a few more days to package any applications that they want to be included in the next release of [...]

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July 28th, 2008

Lab test: Apple gets iPhone 3G right for business

By Tom Yager
An abundance of new features carries iPhone 3G and iPhone 2.0 into the enterprise
With the iPhone 3G’s banner opening weekend and newsstands looking like a rack of brochures for the device, a review of the iPhone 3G at this point might be pro forma, except for one thing: Much of the iPhone 3G [...]

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July 23rd, 2008

IBM Profits Rise 22% on Services, Software

By Darryl K. Taft
IBM manages net income growth of 22 percent selling services, software and systems in a largely international market.
IBM’s second-quarter profits grew 22 percent, led by services and software revenue and sales in international markets.
IBM’s revenues grew 13 percent to $26.8 billion, while net income for the period was $2.8 billion, the company [...]

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July 23rd, 2008

Japanese browser maker taking on IE, Firefox

By Martyn Williams
Sleipnir browser offers a high level of customization, allowing users to select either the Trident or Gecko layout engines for each Web site visited
A Japanese software company is stepping up international promotion of its Web browser in the hope of carving out a 5 percent share over the next few years of [...]

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