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Putting 'hijack' of IP addresses in the clear
Insight newsmaker APNIC's Resource Certification program won't deter hijacking of IP addresses but will at least make the event detectable, says center's chief scientist.
Tags: Web sites, Domain names, IPv6, Certification, Security, Resource Certificate, Use, Attestation, IP, IP Address
Wallem sails the high seas
Insight Maritime industry is undergoing a makeover, with more changes expected in mobile broadband communications, says Wallem CIO Patrick Slesinger.
Tags: IT Management, Mobile/Wireless, Web services, Outsourcing, IT outsourcing, IT budgeting
Be cautious of message, not tools
Insight newsmaker Twitter co-founder Biz Stone shares how the micro-blogging site is attracting commercial usage from the likes of Dell.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web services, Web logs, Twitter, Tool, Video, Comcast Corp., social networking, Web 2.0, video search
Application virtualization comes to smartphones
News VMware has made it possible for smartphones to use any software application on any handset.
Tags: Business applications, Mobile/Wireless, Mobile applications, Apple Inc., Smart Phone, VMware Inc., application virtualization, Use Case, Thin Client, Apple iPhone
Never use dynamic variable names
Techguide How to dynamically name variables is a common subject of programming questions. That's a great way to create security problems, though.
Tags: Security Management, Protocols and platforms, Array, Ruby, Expression, Variable, Security, Microsoft Corp., CompTIA, SQL
Get agile requirements by asking for user stories
Techguide Having trouble gathering agile requirements from a nontechnical client? Consider asking for user stories, which are simple and outline tasks users plan to do when they sit down at the keyboard.
Tags: IT project management, Project management, IT Professional, Rick, Environment, Use Case, job, technique, natural language, team
Microsoft planning IE privacy mode
News Worried about leaving tracks as you browse the Web? A privacy mode is on the agenda for Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
Tags: Web browsers, Privacy, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Open Source, Privacy, Advertisement, Use Case, Mozilla Firefox
Disabling the firewall in Server 2008 Core Edition
Techguide For Windows Server 2008’s Core Edition, the default firewall configuration is one of the things most administrators want to turn off after installation.
Tags: Networking, Operating systems, Hardware, Microsoft Windows Firewall, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, question mark, Netsh, Server, Use Case, Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Google brings Friend Connect to the masses
News Google joins the data portability crowd with 'Friend Connect' allowing users to bring their data from social networks. The programming-free network is said to even incorporate Web sites that are not socially-enabled.
Tags: Networking, Data Management, Networking technology, MySpace, Google Inc., Site, Orkut.com, Social Web, Plaxo Inc., Use Case
Ubuntu founder talks up app launcher for 'Netbooks'
News Ubuntu project founder Mark Shuttleworth has given details of a new app launcher for a version of the OS designed to run on low-cost laptops.
Tags: Open source, Business applications, Linux, Notebooks and tablets, Ubuntu, operating system, OEM, Use Case, ASUS, Mark Shuttleworth
Do cloud computing and parallel processing lack use cases?
Techguide There are really no killer apps for cloud computing or parallel processing, and reasons why the two are not bigger trends than they should be, says industry watcher Justin James.
Tags: Business applications, Software engineering/development, Parallel Processing, Backup, CPU, Developer, Cloud Computing, Server, Use Case, multi-threading
User stories: The starting point in agile development
Techguide Rick Freedman explains how user stories can help agile developers understand users' expectations. He also discusses the three Cs, user role modeling and epic stories.
Tags: IT project management, Software engineering/development, User Story, NEC Corp., Story, Detail, Development Effort, C, Information Technology, Human Resources Inc.
PayPal branches out from eBay's money tree
News By year's end, PayPal will derive more total payment volumes from software it provides to third-party sites than from eBay buyers and sellers, company president says.
Tags: E-commerce, PayPal, Google Inc., eBay Inc., venture capital, payment company, international business, payment, software, China
Is your IT department sitting on a gold mine?
News Australian firms can now make money out of software developed in-house with the help of a new intellectual property specialist startup.
Tags: Software licensing
Managing Web applications with Server.Execute in ASP
Techguide If you model your Web application to follow a particular navigation path, you probably wrapped up your navigation paths through an action or a verb. This action or verb is usually realized as a function name. That function provides the means necessary to navigate through the different stages of a site.
