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Submission + - Windows Share, a New Data Exchange Mechanism in Wi (infoq.com)

Submitted by aabelro
aabelro writes: Microsoft has created a new mechanism for sharing information between applications in Windows 8 called Windows Share. Apps can share text, bitmaps, HTML, URI, files, and other type of data, and the usage scenarios are numerous. For example, the app receiving the information can post it to Tweeter or Facebook make it easy to post information to a social network without actually visiting it.
Google

Submission + - Schema.org - Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! Agree on (infoq.com)

Submitted by aabelro
aabelro writes: Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! have decided to propose a common markup vocabulary, Schema.org, based on the Microdata format, simplifying the job of webmasters who want to give meaning to their web pages content.
Apple

Submission + - Apple allowed to see "unreleased" Samsung hardware (edibleapple.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Samsung last Wednesday was ordered to hand over to Apple five as-of-yet unreleased products so that Apple can compare them to their own offerings ahead of litigation. Apple of course claims that Samsung's products blatantly copy the look and feel of Apple's iOS devices.
Cloud

Submission + - Google Storage is Now Available to All Developers (infoq.com)

Submitted by aabelro
aabelro writes: Google has announced at I/O 2011 the availability of their Storage service to all developers without the need for an invitation. The service has been enhanced with OAuth 2.0 support, simplified account management through the API Console, a new EU storage region, and a new API version.

Submission + - Lessons Learned from Skype’s Outage (infoq.com)

Submitted by aabelro
aabelro writes: On December 22th, 1600 GMT, the Skype services started to become unavailable, in the beginning for a small part of the users, then for more and more, until the network was down for about 24 hours. A week later, Lars Rabbe, CIO at Skype, explained what happened in a post-mortem analysis of the outage.
Open Source

Submission + - Microsoft Open Sources F# (infoq.com) 1

Submitted by aabelro
aabelro writes: Don Syme has announced the release of the F# compiler source code as a code drop under Apache 2.0
User Journal

Journal Journal: InfoQ: Padding Oracle Affects JSF, Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET

Journal by aabelro

http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/10/Padding-Oracle
Using a Padding Oracle (PO) attack a malicious user can access encrypted data such as cookies, state, membership password, etc. According to Juliano Rizzo, the security vulnerability affects JavaServer Faces, Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET and other technologies and platforms.
Google

Journal Journal: InfoQ: Google WebP - Creating Smaller Images for Faster Pages

Journal by aabelro

http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/10/WebP
Google wants to shrink images transferred over the Internet by proposing a new lossy format called WebP. They claim they have achieved 39% reduction in image byte size leading to speedier page load.
User Journal

Journal Journal: InfoQ: Is Good Code Enough for a Project to Be Successful?

Journal by aabelro

http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/09/Good-Code-Is-Not-Enough
Simon Brown, a developer, architect and author, considers that it takes a lot more than just good code to create a successful project. In his presentation, Good Code Isn’t Enough, Brown goes through all the elements necessary for a project’s success, from upfront design to operation documentation.

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