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BlackBerry PDF flaw exposes corporate networks

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is warning businesses to disable the function which allows a BlackBerry to read PDF files until it can issue an update, after a security flaw was found in the company's software. Read more »

Jobs blames security for Apple iPhone apps delay

Steve Job has revealed that third-party applications will be coming to the iPhone from next year. Read more »

OpenOffice TIFF flaw affects Windows, Linux and Mac

Security experts have discovered TIFF-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities in OpenOffice, which could allow attackers to remotely execute code on Linux, Windows or Apple Mac-based computers. Read more »

Microsoft's JPEG rival to become a standard?

Microsoft's HD Photo format could soon become a standard, boosting sales of its Windows Vista operating system which includes built-in support for the JPEG alternative. Read more »

Microsoft looks beyond Windows at hardware confab

At this year's Microsoft conference for Windows hardware experts, the software giant will be talking about a lot more than the operating system. Read more »

BlackBerry users face security threat

Windows users know opening a malicious e-mail attachment can wreak havoc on their PC. It appears BlackBerry users have to use caution too. Read more »

Open-source programmer rebuts charge

A programmer has rebutted an accusation that he contributed proprietary software to an open-source project called Mambo, while his accuser has moderated his legal threats. Read more »

Sun, JBoss J2EE compliance tiff continues

Sun Microsystems has made an important Jave compliance test available to JBoss Group--the latest manoeuvre in an ongoing scuffle between the industry giant and the upstart open-source software company. Read more »

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Run length encoding in Python

Data compression is a must in modern communication. Run length encoding is one of the simplest effective forms of compression. We'll show you how you can implement it in just a few lines of Python. Read more »

Extract high quality MapPoint images using VB.NET

Extracting a quality MapPoint image requires some programmatic footwork via Microsoft Office Document Imaging and the .NET Framework. Read more »

Simplify report creation with .NET's various reporting options

Developers often cringe when they have to create reports, but there are numerous options available with .NET to simplify the process. Tony Patton offers you a look at .NET's various reporting options. Read more »

Review: Reporting for duty

In this round-up of some of the most popular reporting tools for developers, we put these tools to the test to see how they stack up against real-world scenarios. Read more »

Macromedia FreeHand MX: Is it sketchy?

Macromedia devotees should add FreeHand MX to their stable. But it's still not as intuitive as CorelDraw 11.0. Read more »

Java tips: Tap into the AWT Image class and FileNameMap

Need some Java tips you can put to work right away? Here are a couple of techniques you'll want to pick up if you work with Graphics objects or MIME files in Java. Read more »

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