Microsoft gives sneak peek at Silverlight 4 RIA technology
Microsoft this week will shed some light on a planned upgrade to Silverlight, its browser-based rich Internet application technology, which will gain native multicast support capabilities as well as support for offline digital rights management.
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Unpatched Microsoft bugs raise red flags
Microsoft has released its security updates for the month of September, but a couple of unpatched flaws have some security experts wondering if the software company will be forced to release an emergency patch sometime in the month ahead.
Security researchers believe that an unpatched flaw in the SMB (Server Message Block) 2 software that ships with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 could turn into a major headache.
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Silicon Valley is shrinking
The number of high-tech jobs in all industries Silicon Valley declined by 86,000, or 16.5 percent, between 2001 and 2008, according a federal study of employment trends in the valley.
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Report: More options may be coming for the iPhone
AT&T and Apple are considering adding new features in an iPhone update before year's end to give users alerts when they are about to go over their voice minutes and an option to disable voicemail greetings, according to reports.
The changes under consideration are based on customer feedback, according to Apple Insider and other reports.
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IBM tool eases JavaScript development
Countering rivals Microsoft and Adobe Systems, IBM is offering a free tool to simplify development of JavaScript-based Web applications, featuring use of a modeling language, according to IBM sources.
Big Blue's EGL CEآ (Enterprise Generation Language Community Edition), released Tuesday, is an Eclipse-based tool geared to building Web 2.0 applications. It leverages IBM's EGL modeling language. Developers who code in PHP, Ruby on Rails, Groovy, JavaScript, and HTML can use the EGL tool to code, test, and debug Web 2.0 applications using one language.
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IBM tool eases JavaScript development
Countering rivals Microsoft and Adobe Systems, IBM is offering a free tool to simplify development of JavaScript-based Web applications, featuring use of a modeling language, according to IBM sources.
Big Blue's EGL CEآ (Enterprise Generation Language Community Edition), released Tuesday, is an Eclipse-based tool geared to building Web 2.0 applications. It leverages IBM's EGL modeling language. Developers who code in PHP, Ruby on Rails, Groovy, JavaScript, and HTML can use the EGL tool to code, test, and debug Web 2.0 applications using one language.
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Update: Microsoft rivals defend Linux with patent purchases
A group of Linux proponents will purchase patents formerly held by Microsoft in an effort to defend distributors of the open-source OS against the ongoing threat of patent litigation from the software giant.
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Close to Patch Tuesday, new flaw surfaces
As Microsoft prepares to release its latest patches, researchers said they've seen exploit code for a new flaw that puts organizations using Vista and Windows 7 at great risk.
The flaw lies in the SMB (Server Message Block) 2 software in Windows, said Bojan Zdrnja, a handler for the SANS Internet Storm Center. Exploit code was released around 11 p.m. U.S. Eastern time, he said.
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Microsoft: Cybercrooks exploiting unpatched IIS bug
Microsoft says that cybercriminals are starting to exploit an unpatched bug in its IIS server software that was made public last week.
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Gestures set to shake up mobile user interfaces
Touch screens have changed the way people use mobile phones dramatically. But gesture controls, augmented reality, and larger screen sizes are about to change habits even more, according to mobile interface expert Christian Lindholm.
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HTC Tattoo to be first customizable Android handset
High Tech Computer (HTC) gave its latest smartphone a name it can live up to, Tattoo, because people who buy it will be invited to design their own personal skin for the phone.
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Microsoft to add 'Ping' to Bing to share search results
Microsoft is testing a new feature called "Bing & Ping" for its Bing search engine that allows people to share search results on social networks Facebook and Twitter.
According to a post on the Bing community site by Nicholas Kerr, a Bing marketing manager, Bing & Ping is a "potential new feature" for Bing that allows people to click on links below a search result to post the information on social-networking sites or e-mail it to friends.
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Firefox 4.0 to arrive late 2010
Mozilla recently released a product roadmap with a number of new details on what the foundation is hoping to release between now and the end of 2010, including information on when to expect the next major iteration of Firefox.
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