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Submission + - Google app verification service detects only 15% of infected apps (ncsu.edu)

Submitted by ShipLives on Monday December 10, 2012 @08:45AM

ShipLives writes: Researchers have tested Google's app verification service (included in Android 4.2 last month), and found that it performed very poorly at identifying malware in apps. Specifically, the app verification service identified only ~15% of known malware in testing — whereas existing third-party security apps identified between 51% and 100% of known malware in testing.

Submission + - Outrage at Microsoft offshoring tax in the UK (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by Master Of Ninja on Monday December 10, 2012 @07:49AM

Master Of Ninja writes: After the ongoing row about companies not paying a fair share of tax in the United Kingdom, and with companies such as Starbucks, Amazon and Google being in the headlines, focus has now turned to Microsoft. Whilst the tax arrangements are strictly legal, there has been outrage on how companies are avoiding paying their fair share of tax generated in the country.

Submission + - McAffee is doing a live broadcast tonight on ustream at 8:00PM EST (whoismcafee.com)

Submitted by

paysonwelch

on Sunday December 09, 2012 @07:57PM

paysonwelch writes: "GUATEMALA CITY, December 9, 2012 — John McAfee, famed antivirus software pioneer and human rights advocate, today announced that he will host a news conference to ask the world for its protection against the Government of Belize. On his official blog, whoismcafee.com, Mr. McAfee has exposed the widespread corruption that is currently taking over the small country. Because of this, Mr. McAfee feels that he will be in grave danger if he were to be returned toBelize.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/urecommendmedia"

Submission + - The Economics of Federal Cloud Computing Analyzed (ulitzer.com)

Submitted by jg21 on Saturday October 17, 2009 @04:45AM

jg21 writes: With $20BN about to be spent by the Federal Government on IT infrastructure investments, this highly analytical article by two Booz Allen Hamilton associates makes it clear that Cloud computing has now received full executive backing and offers clear opportunities for agencies to significantly reduce their growing data center and IT hardware expenditures. President Obama's America is going distinctly cloudy! [From the article: "A few agencies are already moving quickly to explore cloud computing solutions and are even redirecting existing funds to begin implementations ... Agencies should identify the aspects of their current IT workload that can be transitioned to the cloud in the near term to yield "early wins" to help build momentum and support for the migration to cloud computing."]

Submission + - Cloud Computing "Should Be Open, Not Proprieta (sys-con.com)

Submitted by jg21 on Monday July 21, 2008 @07:25AM

jg21 writes: As previously discussed on Slashdot, the new tendency to speak of "The Cloud" or "Cloud Computing" often seems to generate more heat than light, but one familiar industry fault line is becoming clear — those who believe clouds can be proprietary vs. those who believe they should be free. One CEO who sides with open clouds in order that companies can pick and choose from vendors depending on precisely what they need has written a detailed article in which he outlines how, in his opinion, Platform-as-a-Service should work. He identifies nine features of "an ideal PaaS cloud" including the requirement that "Developers should be able to interact with the cloud computer, to do business with it, without having to get on the phone with a sales person, or submit a help ticket." [From the article: 'I think this means that cloud computing companies will, just like banks, begin more and more to "loan" each other infrastructure to handle our own peaks and valleys, But in order for this to happen we'd need the next requirement.']

Submission + - Multiple Experts Try Defining "Cloud Computing (sys-con.com)

Submitted by jg21 on Wednesday July 16, 2008 @11:18AM

jg21 writes: Even though IBM's Irving Wladawsky Berger reports a leading analyst as having said recently that "There is a clear consensus that there is no real consensus on what cloud computing is," no fewer than twenty attempts at a definition of the infrastructural paradigm shift that is sweeping across the Enterprise IT world can be found here — some of them really quite good. [From the article: '"Cloud computing is...the user-friendly version of grid computing.' (Trevor Doerksen) and 'Cloud computing really is accessing resources and services needed to perform functions with dynamically changing needs. An application or service developer requests access from the cloud rather than a specific endpoint or named resource.' (Kevin Hartig)]

Submission + - Web Talent War: Is Microsoft Winning Over Google? (web2journal.com)

Submitted by jg21 on Wednesday July 02, 2008 @08:42AM

jg21 writes: Ever since Fortune wrote an article about it, mentions have been occurring hither and yon about how Google is having problems retaining employees, and the latest comes in Web 2.0 Journal, where Dare Obasanjo interestingly tracks and interprets a couple of blog entries that he says leads him to hypothesize that "Google's big problem is that the company hasn't realized that it isn't a startup anymore." Of course Obasanjo works for Microsoft; it will be interesting to see if an equally prominent Googler posts a counter-theory.

Submission + - The Future of AJAX and the Rich Web Dscusssed (ajaxworldmagazine.com)

Submitted by jg21 on Sunday December 09, 2007 @05:01AM

jg21 writes: This AJAXWorld Magazine article indicates how far AJAX has come since devs complained here that it sucked all the time. Eight experts were asked what questions we should now all be asking, with 2008 just around the corner, about where AJAX is headed next. The suggested questions are refreshingly hard-headed, including: "How are we to fix the web?" (Douglas Crockford, JSON inventor), "When will AJAX development finally be easy?" (Google's Christian Schalk), and "Do we really need JavaScript 2.0? Won't it be somewhat irrelevant by the time it becomes commonplace and thus usable?" (Josh Gertzen, lead developer of the ThinWire AJAX Framework). One of the most interesting questions came from Kevin Hakman, co-founder of TIBCO's General Interface: "On what timeline will AJAX skills become commoditized like HTML skills became?" With a question like that, one is reminded that AJAX has come a very long way in a very short time.

Submission + - Is It Time for a "Kinder, Gentler HTML"? (web2journal.com) 2

Submitted by jg21 on Friday November 30, 2007 @05:10AM

jg21 writes: Web 2.0 Journal brings to our attention Yahoo! Architect and JSON inventor Douglas Crockford's latest ideas to fix HTML. Not a fan of HTML 5, which is still just an Editor's Draft and not endorsed by W3C yet, Crock puts forward ten ideas that in his view would provide extensibility without complexity, adding that the simplification of HTML he is proposing would reduce the cost of training of web developers and incorporates the best practices of AJAX development. [From the article: "The problems with HTML will not be solved by making it bigger and more complicated. I think instead we should generalize what it does well, while excising features that are problematic. HTML can be made into a general application delivery format without disrupting its original role as a document format."]

Submission + - Redmond's Heavy Guns Go After OpenSocial

Submitted by jg21 on Monday November 05, 2007 @07:47AM

jg21 writes: It is probably coincidental, but two responses to OpenSocial from well-respected members of the Microsoft blogging community have each in their own way come out against Google's OpenSocial initiative, Dare Osabanjo because in his view OpenSocial while billed as a standardized widget platform for the Web, actually isn't. And Don Dodge because his claim is that fifty million Facebook developers "don't know what OpenSocial APIs are...and don't care."

Comment Googzi = "Googzilla" (Score 1) 1

by jg21 on Tuesday October 23, 2007 @03:11AM (#21082325) Attached to: Can "Don't Be Evil" Survive at "Googzi

Arnold even gave a tutorial about Google v2 back in November. It was called "Google v2: The rise of Googzilla". [From the course description: "Most people know about Google, version 1. Now you can learn about Google, version 2, and how you can take advantage of this change. Steve will provide a preview of his new information service that focuses on Google's activities in the United States government, a business sector largely ignored by the trade and business media."]

Feed Engadget: NTT DoCoMo tests speedy Super 3G (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Friday July 13, 2007 @02:13PM

Filed under: Cellphones

It's a bird, it's a plane, no, its just Japan's NTT DoCoMo blowing the rest of the world away with yet more steroid-loaded 3G action, or Super 3G in this case. Blending advanced HSDPA and HSUPA technologies, Super 3G is touted as having downlink speeds as quick as 300Mbps -- a fair bit quicker than earlier reports -- to your handset. The indoor tests will begin with only one transmitting and receiving antenna, but switch up to the four Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna system that would be used if deployed. Test are expected to wrap up in 2009, so in the interim we'll all just sit back and cry a little knowing we'll never see this type of tech on these shores.

[Via Unwired View]

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Submission + - The Psychology of Facebook Examined (socialcomputingmagazine.com)

Submitted by jg21 on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @09:41AM

jg21 writes: In this analysis of the pyschology of Facebook, a British FB user makes some telling points about how simple the reasons behind its success are. Among them, fear of "online social failure" features prominently. [From the article: 'Facebook also digs away at the insecurities in people...your peers can see your profile on Facebook, and while they may have 50, 100, 200 friends they will mockingly see that you have a pathetically small number, confirming your worst fears about the low opinion they have probably held of you over all those years etc.']

Submission + - 35 Different Ways of Looking at Social Networks (socialcomputingmagazine.com)

Submitted by jg21 on Saturday July 07, 2007 @04:04AM

jg21 writes: Social Computing Magazine has just published a list of thirty-five perspectives on online social networking reflecting how protean and difficult to pin down the phenomenon is. It was compiled by Malene Charlotte Larsen, a PhD student at Aalborg University in Denmark, who has been doing research on Danish youngsters and online social networking. She ends with an open request for further perspectives.

[From the article "I must say that I certainly do not agree with all of the mentioned perspectives, but some of them do represent the opinions (or prejudices) I hear when I am out giving lectures to adults."]

13-Year-Old CEO Steals the Show At TiECON 259

Posted by kdawson on Sunday May 20, 2007 @05:05AM

An anonymous reader tells us about a 13-year old Silicon Valley CEO with a plan to change the way kids learn chemistry. Yesterday he stole the show at TiECON 2007, the big entrepreneur conference held in Santa Clara, CA. VentureBeat has the story and a video interview. The company's VP of sales is the CEO's sister. She's 11. They're looking for $100K to ramp up production and distribution.

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