Author: Sean Michael Kerner (Internet News) PHP 5.3 could be out as soon as Tuesday June 30th. The new open source language release is a big deal for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that by my count this is the first major update to PHP since 2006 and [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Major PHP Update Coming Soon
Friday, June 26th, 2009Poll Shows Internet As Most Popular Source of Information
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009Source: Yahoo! Tech NEW YORK (Reuters) -The Internet is by far the most popular source of information and the preferred choice for news ahead of television, newspapers and radio, according to a new poll in the United States. But just a small fraction of U.S. adults considered social websites such as Facebook and MySpace as [...]
Liberalized Domains a Boon for Businesses?
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009Source: Internet News Two thirds of businesses are unaware they will be able to use their own name in place of domain extensions such as .com, .org, or .net when Internet domains are liberalized next year, according to a survey. The change would let the likes of Nike (NYSE: NKE) or Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) control [...]
JavaFX Pitted Against AJAX
Monday, June 8th, 2009Author: Paul Krill (Yahoo) In a mock debate focused on the rich Internet application development realm, AJAX was pitted against Sun Microsystems’ JavaFX Friday, with proponents for both technologies pointing up their entrant’s high points and the low points of their rival. A session at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco had the co-founders of the Ajaxian web [...]
Internet Ads Outperform Other Media
Monday, June 8th, 2009Source: Mark Long (Yahoo! Tech) Internet advertising revenue in the U.S. dropped five percent to $5.5 billion during the first quarter, reports PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). However, several researchers covering the U.S. advertising market say Internet ad spending has been performing remarkably well in a challenging economic environment, even as the ad [...]
Security Software Can Ferret Out Who’s a Human and Who’s a Bot
Thursday, June 4th, 2009Author: Jeremy Kirk (CIO) An Atlanta security company has come up with a technology it says can block automated programs responsible for perpetuating nuisances such as spam, fake e-mail registrations and click fraud. The software, HumanPresent, essentially ferrets out, for example, whether a human is filling out a Web-based form and stopping those actions that [...]
Spring 3.0 Jumps onto Java
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009Author: Sean Michael Kerner (Internet News) Version 3.0 of the open source Spring Java framework is nearing completion and is set to offer Java developers new capabilities to rapidly develop applications. SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson will detail the new capabilities of Spring 3.0 during the JavaOne conference this week in San Francisco. Spring is a [...]
Security to be Tightened for .org Domains
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009Author: Carolyn Duffy Marsan (PC World) The Public Interest Registry will announce today that it has begun cryptographically signing the .org top-level domain using DNS security extensions known as DNSSEC. DNSSEC is an emerging standard that prevents spoofing attacks by letting Web sites verify their domain names and corresponding IP addresses using digital signatures and [...]
Gumblar is awake and worse than Conficker (Experts say)
Monday, June 1st, 2009Author: Elinor Mills (cnet news) Gumblar, a new attack that compromises Web sites, has added new domain names that are downloading malware onto unsuspecting computers, stealing FTP credentials to compromise more sites, and tampering with Web traffic, a security firm said on Thursday. The Gumblar attack started in March with Web sites being compromised and [...]
