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Disk encryption is no silver bullet, researchers say
Disk encryption, which people rely on for protecting sensitive data on laptops, can fairly easily be foiled, security researchers said in presenting a paper on a so-called "cold-boot attack" at the Usenix security conference on Wednesday. Read more »
Vista is "New Coke"
In a new study, Forrester Research uncovers some good news for Microsoft: Vista usage among US businesses is up by more than 40 percent since January. The bad news: still, less than 10 per cent of the 50,000 companies surveyed use Vista. Read more »
Adobe tools put desktop apps in the browser
Adobe is preparing to open source development tools that will enable existing desktop and server software to run in Web browsers, according to reports. Read more »
NASA hacker in final bid to fight US extradition
Gary McKinnon, the Briton who has admitted hacking into NASA systems, is due to fight his extradition to the US in the House of Lords on Monday. Read more »
OLPC's Bitfrost: Privacy disaster, or security haven?
Faced with a young, tech-inexperienced user base, the One Laptop Per Child foundation set out to build an easy to use security system, Bitfrost — but did it create a privacy threat that tracks users' identity instead? Read more »
US wants its own botnet for preemptive strikes
The US Air Force is talking openly about forming botnets to launch preemptive attacks in cyberspace. Read more »
Adobe set to test new Flash Player
Adobe is expected to launch a beta test program for the latest version of its Flash Player software. Read more »
Cisco partners sell fake routers to US military
Cisco admits its partners sold counterfeit Cisco products to the US military, posing a serious threat to military and critical national infrastructure, according to the FBI Read more »
Sun: JavaFX can take on Flash
This week at Sun's JavaOne conference,the company introduced JavaFX, a rich Internet application environment set to compete with Adobe Systems' AIR and Microsoft's Silverlight. Read more »
Adobe opens up Flash, ditches licensing fees
Adobe is aiming for greater use of its Flash Player multimedia Web software within mobile and other non-PC devices by launching its Open Screen Project — an industry alliance it hopes will garner the support of large vendors in the embedded multimedia space. Read more »
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My five favourite success strategies
Difficult times call for new approaches. Here are five strategies used successfully by many individuals. If you're open to new ideas or approaches you haven't tried before, check these out. Read more »
Why traditionalists should take Web developers seriously
There used to be a sharp distinction between application developers and Web developers. This made sense when technologies such as Perl/CGI, classic ASP, standard JSP, and PHP ruled the Web development roost. But this distinction is becoming less relevant. Read more »
RIFE with possibilities
Developing a web-based application is never a small undertaking. At the very best it's a lot of work just to develop the code that does whatever it is your application is supposed to do but before you even get to the point of writing your application's code, you have to decide what you going to write it in. Read more »
Building Microsoft code inside the tornado
Q&A -- Vice president S 'Soma' Somasegar shares his views on how interoperability and open source will help Microsoft. Read more »
Adobe AIR brings the Web to the desktop
The Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) lets developers build Web applications with a rich user interface that mimics desktop applications. Read more »
Introducing JavaFX: Sun's new family of Java-based products
JavaFX is a new family of products and technologies from Sun Microsystems that you can use to create Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). JavaFX currently consists of JavaFX Script and JavaFX Mobile; other JavaFX products are planned for release in the future. Read more »
Top 10 reasons why the office loathes the IT department
Ever wondered what the rest of the office really think of you and your peers in the IT department? Read more »
10 things you should know about advanced power management
One of the biggest issues facing IT professionals is power management. Today's data centres, deployed solutions, and explosive growth in technology warrants a fresh look at the power strategies you have in place. Read more »
Flash and Flex: cached and componentised
Mike Potter is the developer marketing manager for Flex, we sat down with Mike at MAX and discussed where Flex and Flash is heading. Read more »
On AIR: Getting ready for primetime
We caught up with Ryan Stewart, rich internet evangelist, Adobe, at MAX and spoke about AIR, Thermo and how Ryan has covered the US in a bus. Read more »
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Avoiding security risks with AIR
Being a native application, AIR needs far more security than a typical Flash application. Mike Downey, principal evangelist, Adobe, discusses the extra steps Adobe had to take with AIR. Read more »
Future AIR trajectory
Mike Downey explains what the future holds in store for the Adobe's Integrated Runtime. Read more »
Does AIR move the focus off the web?
With Adobe pushing their AIR product, does the development focus return to the desktop? Mike Downey, principal evangelist, Adobe, answers this question. Read more »
Torvalds pleased that DRM music is dying
Linus Torvalds, coordinator of the Linux kernel, is pleased that music publishers have started selling more DRM-free music -- last year he said the technology was a lot of "hot air". Read more »
On AIR: Getting ready for primetime
We caught up with Ryan Stewart, rich internet evangelist, Adobe, at MAX and spoke about AIR and Thermo. Read more »
Vision for the robotic future
Robot development takes center stage. Read more »
Blog (16)
Targeted for hacking by reporters at my table
-- I should have known it was only a matter of time. I've been covering security conferences on and off for about 14 years and considered myself lucky not to have been hacked, that I knew of. Until Thursday. Read more »
Introducing the new "nerd whistle"
-- Certainly the iPhone 3G has changed a lot about how we think of our mobile devices, but I guess I never thought we would discover the ultimate geek magnet -- the nerd whistle of all App Store apps -- the Phonesaber. Read more »
Repent Open Sourcerers
-- The Anglican Diocese in Sydney is moving away from Microsoft technologies, Access and ActiveX provide another way for remote code execution and a local Aussie team wins the Imagine Cup. All that and more in this week's Roundup. Read more »
Gestation, robots and NASA hacking
-- Firefox 3 made it out the door last week, and set a world record while doing so; after 15 years Wine 1.0 also hit the street. We also look at robots, google developer day and outsourcing in this week's Weekly Roundup. Read more »
Adobe previews new Web dev tools
-- Want to see what's in store for Adobe CS4? Public betas of Dreamweaver and Fireworks are available for download at Adobe Labs. Read more »
Conference season open for Web developers
-- Are Adobe Air, Microsoft Silverlight, Google Gears, AJAX, and the semantic Web some of your favourite things? Now's the right time to put in that training request because May and June are full of great local Web developer conferences. Read more »
Salesforce's new AIR toolkit
-- Following the announcement that Salesforce will provide a free toolkit for Adobe Flex and AIR development on its Force.com platform, I spoke to the company’s Doug Farber, the Vice President of Operations, Asia Pacific about its functionality and other issues surrounding the toolkit. Read more »
Unlocking the Wii's hidden potential
-- In a collection of videos, notable for their lucid explanations, Johnny Lee, a Ph.D. graduate student from CMU's Human-Computer Interaction Institute shows exactly how versatile the "Wiimote" system can be Read more »
Adobe release H.264 video support for Flash player
-- In a bid to stay relevant in the world of high definition video Adobe's new Flash player has officially shipped with the H.264 video standard included. Read more »
Warning: ads to get more annoying
-- The addition of high definition video and VoIP within Flash will allows developers to create new user experiences and it's coming to a banner ad near you in all its H.264 and vocal glory. Read more »
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The punching and counterpunching continued in the ongoing web browser development bout. Each time one browser closes a feature gap, a new feature appears in one of the others -- how we ever put up with the years of browser stagnation, I'll never know. Read more »
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Since its release in May last year, Gears has supported only Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. With the addition of Safari into the Gears fold, it closes the loop of major browsers to support Gears Read more »
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MyPerfect.com.au has potentialVictorian Web start-up My Perfect has a strong story and rationale for why it will succeed. But it has to overcome some challenges and design flaws first. Read more »
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Club Builder: Seinfeld, Wiimotes and Woz
On this episode of Club Builder: Jerry Seinfeld is the new face of Vista, we learn how to make a cheap whiteboard, and Woz talks about Steve Jobs.
