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Google opens up Wave federation
News Wave servers created by outside developers can now talk with each other through Google's servers, opening up new interoperability possibilities for Wave.
Tags: E-mail clients, Google Inc., Workplace, Google Wave, P2P, collaboration tool, Server, API, e-mail, IM
Microsoft targets biz apps with Silverlight 4
News Software giant releases beta version of technology for rich Web apps, revealing new features it says will make greater impact on enterprise software.
Tags: Web services, Software engineering/development, Software, Google Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Development Platform, News Agency, Silverlight Team, Microsoft Corp.
Tis season to be shopping online, at work
News Employees plan to spend 14.4 hours shopping online from work computers during this year-end festivities, highlighting need to keep systems secure, study finds.
Tags: Business security, IT training, Web sites, Social Networking, Employee, Computer, Survey, ISACA, Information Technology, Web sites
Free sandboxing tool isolates risky behavior
Techguide Sandboxie creates an isolated operating environment which prohibits applications from directly writing to anything on local or mapped drives unless the user wants it to.
Tags: Security, Software, Sandbox, Virtual Desktop, Tool, virtual folder, Tom Olzak, Sandboxie, Recovery Folder, Environment
Use DropMyRights to protect systems from admin users
Techguide Providing only the local system access necessary for business users to perform their jobs should be the ultimate goal. But until then, we can drop their rights when appropriate.
Tags: Security Management, Business security, Sandbox, IT Professional, EULA, Admin User, Microsoft Windows Vista, Steve Gibson, MCSE, Tom Olzak
Google patches severe Chrome vulnerabilities
News Maliciously crafted JavaScript and XML could let an attacker take over a person's computer through the stable version of Chrome, Google warns.
Tags: Web browsers, Network security, PC security, Sandbox, Web Browser, Vulnerability, computer, Attacker, patch management, program manager
Google's 64-bit Chrome starts emerging on Linux
News Some heavy lifting has been done to move Chrome to the 64-bit world. It's Linux-only for now, though, and don't expect doubled performance over 32-bit versions.
Tags: Linux, Web browsers, Web Browser, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, V8, 64-bit, JavaScript, Microsoft Windows
Adobe takes LiveCycle tools to Amazon's cloud
News The software maker taps Amazon's EC2 and S3 service for a sandbox environment that lets enterprise developers build and test using LiveCycle without installing it.
Tags: Content management, Web servers, Open source, Adobe LiveCycle, Tool, Web service, data capture, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com Inc., Process Management
Google issues, then reissues Chrome security fix
News The newest mainstream version of the open-source browser had two security fixes, but Google had to reissue the patch after it caused crashes.
Tags: Web browsers, Security, Google Inc., computer, software, program manager, 2D, Web browsers, Chrome
Microsoft scales back its Live Labs effort
News The group is being "restructured", with half the folks being sent to Microsoft's product teams. Gary Flake, hired away from Yahoo three years ago, will remain head.
Tags: Search, Leadership, Organizational structure, Microsoft Corp., Stacy Drake, Yahoo! Inc., Worker, software, talent, spokeswoman
Android phones await security patch
News Users should not use their browser until a patch for a security hole is made available, a security researcher says.
Tags: Smart phones, Search, Apple MacBook Air, Security, Mobile, Web Browser, Google Inc., Packetvideo, Vulnerability, Open Source
Google debuts Chrome for Mac, Linux
News A new chapter in browser history begins as Google starts taking Chrome beyond Windows. Watch out for the missing features and 424 bugs, though.
Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Google Inc., Web Browser, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Google Chrome, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari
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Tags: Open Source, Article, online help, Encarta.com, Wikipedia Article, software, Wikipedia
IBM floats vision of cloud's future
Insight newsmaker The head of IBM's cloud-computing strategy talks about why the company wanted to develop the technology, and where he plans to take it.
Tags: Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Utility computing, R&D, IBM Corp., Customer Center, oil & gas, grid computing, Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS)
Salesforce to offer testing service
News New service gives subscribers a hosted, online replica of their applications to test before launching.
Tags: Business applications
