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Using Bing from .NET
Techguide Justin James shares his recent Bing experience and provides a code snippet that will put you well on your way to writing a Bing-enabled application.
Tags: Business applications, .NET, Software engineering/development, Namespace, LINQ, Simple Object Access Protocol, Microsoft Corp., WSDL, AppID, Business applications
Red Hat warns of cloud 'lock-in'
News Vendors such as Microsoft are attempting to take customers 'back to the '80s' by locking them into proprietary cloud services, according to open source vendor Red Hat.
Tags: Cloud computing, Open source, Red Hat Inc., Sister Site, SDK, VMware Inc., Cloud computing, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux, PHP
Why automatic updates may be the next big threat
Techguide Michael Kassner discusses a potential problem--an attacker hijacking automatic updates and downloading malware onto users' computers.
Tags: Network security, Security Management, Malware, Security, Michael Kassner, computer, Server, Wi-Fi, network, Wi-Fi network
Facebook friends don't ask friends for money
News In latest Facebook scam accounts are hacked and imposters are sending out pleas for money from friends.
Tags: Spam, Spam and phishing, Hacking, CBS Corp., Friend, Spokesperson, antivirus, Colorado, phone, social networking
Social networking risk: Managing the inevitable
Techguide The enterprise needs to shift its attention to a more insidious potential use of social networking sites--social engineering activities.
Tags: Business security, Data security, Security Management, Security applications/tools, Friend, Friendship, Survey, social engineering, Tom Olzak, phone
Easy for common sense to get lost in Web 2.0
Blogs Congratulations are in order because...I got married! Okay, okay, so technically, April 1 was two days ago and prank...
When was the last time you wrote a letter?
Blogs Growing up, I used to relish every visit to the stationery shop. I'd spend hours browsing through row after row of c...
Microsoft to release free security software soon
News Software maker will release its Microsoft Security Essentials "in the coming weeks," according to a note sent to testers.
Tags: Data security, PC security, Authentication and encryption, Security, Antivirus Software, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows Live OneCare, antivirus, Facebook, Microsoft Windows
Internet security is everyone's business
Blogs About a month ago, a friend of mine revealed that his bank account had been compromised and that an unknown person or pe...
Oy! Google Translate now speaks Yiddish
News Google adds nine new languages to its translation service--which can translate text, comments, live chat, or entire Web pages--bringing the total to 51.
Tags: Business applications, machine translation, Google Talk, Google Docs, Google Gmail
Report: Facebook, Nielsen to partner on ad stats
News An announcement in New York this week will unveil a program called "Brand Lift", which aims to put a number on the effectiveness of advertisements on Facebook.
Tags: Web 2.0, Internet advertising, Palo Alto, social networking, New York, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, marketing, Wall Street Journal, Internet advertising
Smartphone users, keep complaining
News Want great software for your mobile phone? Keep up the complaints. That was the message at a session aimed at developers at the BlackBerry Developer Conference in San Francisco.
Tags: Smart phones, Stephen King, RIM BlackBerry, software, mobile, Smart Phone, mobile software, Developer, Customer Satisfaction, Smartphone
The PCs that the flood took away
Blogs As a super typhoon prepares to lash the Philippines this week--the third time in a month--I ask for the indulgence of th...
Facebook provides free tool for translating sites
News Translations for Facebook Connect allows Web developers to tap technology that has been used to translate the social network itself into 65 languages.
Tags: Web 2.0, Site, Web Site, single sign-on, authentication, Google OpenSocial, Lee, Web 2.0, board, Facebook
Macs: No longer last bastion of invulnerability
Blogs Last week, a friend of mine pointed me to an online promotion for some software for the MacBook that I own. It was a sui...
