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whitepaper Inverted Browser: A Novel Approach Towards Display Symbiosis2006-03-21 01:28:55
  This paper introduces the Inverted Browser, a novel approach to enable mobile users to view content from their personal devices on public displays. The Inverted Browser is a network service to start and control a browser that is then used to view the content. This initial prototype uses existing technologies, such as Web browsers, Web Services, and Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi) middleware. As an alternative to the Inverted Browser display service, leveraging existing off-the-shelf solutions were considered to accomplish the same end goal of viewing content from mobile devices. The paper reports the qualitative and quantitative comparisons with Thin-Client technologies, such as VNC, and Bluetooth profiles.   
whitepaper Commercializing Open Source Software: Do Property Rights Still Matter?2006-03-07 03:02:21
  A major shift toward open source software is underway as companies are more critically evaluating the cost effectiveness of their IT investments, seeing the benefits of collaborative development, and looking for ways to avoid vendor lock-in. At the same time, academics and industry visionaries are criticizing the use of a traditional appropriation mechanism for innovation - the patent - by bemoaning the decisions of U.S. and foreign governments to permit software patents. This paper responds to those trends by analyzing the role of property rights in the open source development model, with a particular focus on the effectiveness of the appropriation mechanisms that the open source model uses in lieu of intellectual property rights.   
whitepaper Isolated Web Browsing: Enforcing OS-Like Isolation for Browsers2006-03-09 02:37:37
  The rising popularity of web-based applications has forced the browser into a role for which it was not designed. Multiple applications run within the same process and have access to the browser's disk-based state, despite being conceptually separate. Most browsers attempt to address these issues, yet bugs are inevitable in software of such complexity. The authors investigate an orthogonal solution to these issues. Using the system, called CleverNameHere, they are able to separate distinct applications into separate OS processes, and appropriately restrict access to disk-based state.   
whitepaper PHP Hacks: Read RSS Feeds on Your PSP2005-12-14 O'Reilly Media
  The Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) was a great device even before it got the killer addition of a built-in web browser. But now, with this addition, the game-playing, web-surfing, hip-pocket-size device is simply indispensable. This paper creates a specially formatted RSS feed data page that displays nicely on a single page of the PSP screen.

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whitepaper Improving Privacy Fox: Building Version 2.02006-03-07 02:53:48
  The Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) is a standard developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to provide a machine-readable language for describing the privacy policy and practices of a website. Privacy Fox is a browser extension for the Mozilla Firefox that allows translation of the P3P XML into human-readable HTML. The first version of Privacy Fox was a proof-of-concept course project, and lacks features that would make it a more usable and informative product.   
whitepaper A Crawler-Based Study of Spyware on the Web2006-03-07 03:33:46
  Malicious spyware poses a significant threat to desktop security and integrity. This paper examines that threat from an Internet perspective. Using a crawler, the authors performed a large-scale, longitudinal study of the Web, sampling both executables and conventional Web pages for malicious objects. The results show the extent of spyware content. They turn the attention to the Firefox browser, which is currently the second-most popular browser in use. A common perception about Firefox is that it is more secure against drive-by download attacks, in part because it does not support ActiveX components, a common contributing factor to IE browser vulnerabilities.   
whitepaper Why You Should Fire Your Old Browser2006-03-09 02:43:59 John Wiley & Sons
  There's just one Internet, but there isn't one Internet experience. How safely, easily, and quickly person browse the Web is a function of the browser he is using. Firefox is the only one designed to meet the demands of a wired world, so if any person is not using it, will get stuck in rush hour traffic - while 100 million others whiz by one in the carpool lane. For a browser so focused on delivering simplicity, Firefox boasts an absurdly complicated past that dates back to the beginning of the mainstream Web itself.   
whitepaper How Gmail Works2006-03-09 02:50:22 John Wiley & Sons
  One already knows that the majority of the Gmail functionality is enacted client-side - that is, on the browser, rather than at the server - and is done with JavaScript. This paper describes exactly how this works and how one can exploit it. From this paper one learns how Gmail works and looks at the techniques which would be used to probe the system for the knowledge that one needs to communicate with the Gmail server directly.   
whitepaper "Mosaic Layouts": How and Why to Avoid Creating Puzzle-Looking Websites2006-01-25 01:01:34
  When your visitors browse a webpage, their browsing experience depends on many things that you already know - connection speed, computer hardware and software, internet provider are just a few. However, the role that good web design plays in browsing speed is often under-recognized. Pictures and graphics as a navigation aid are often a powerful 'hook' for customers, and can easily enhance a browsing session. When incorrectly used, they can create bottlenecks that hamper the message your site needs to send.   
whitepaper Unraveling the Knoppix Toolkit Maze2006-03-09 02:47:09 John Wiley & Sons
  Linux is famous as an operating system that includes almost everything a software user could ever want right out of the box - and for free. The Knoppix developers had quite a time deciding which of the thousands of packages to include, but they did their homework, made their decisions, and you're the one who benefits. This chapter can't cover everything that comes on the Knoppix disk - that would be a book in itself! - but it does take a look at important apps such as K3b and the GIMP that you'll probably find yourself using at one time or another. One will probably find their self using Mozilla Firefox, KMail, and OpenOffice.org often.