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  • Rugged Manifesto calls on developers for secure code

    Three respected security professionals have issued a call for developers to learn and practice secure programming in an effort to reduce the number of exploits directed at applications.Called the Rugged Manifesto, the document encourages…
  • Ingres appliance combines database and content management

    It means that companies can now adopt more a 'black-box' type approach.Forrester Research has recently pointed out that office paper has undergone double-digit growth year-over-year since 1995, while web content growth has increased even more.
  • IBM to push new standard for risk reporting

    A consortium led by IBM is trying to promote a flavour of XML as a new standard for risk reporting.IBM's Data Governance Council, a group of 50 large financial companies and other organisations worldwide, has launched an initiative aimed at…
  • Ocarina claims online de-dupe breakthrough

    If you are in the banking or financial services sector, don't expect your peers to adopt this any time soon. He pointed out that where there are duplicates, they are often not redundant - on replicated storage arrays, for instance.However, that…
  • IBM brings 'Microsoft-free' PCs to Europe

    Large organisations in the UK have been slow to adopt open source on the desktop, even more so than other Western European countries, according to open formats advocacy group OpenForum Europe. Lotus Symphony is based on OpenOffice.org and uses the…
  • ODF editor calls for OOXML co-operation

    The teams developing the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Office Open XML (OOXML) standards should work together, evolving the two in parallel, the editor of the ODF standard has said in an open letter to the standards-setting community.The…

Latest Features

  • HTML 5 to shake up the web

    Working outside the W3C, WHATWG began a parallel effort to revamp HTML for a more application-centric view of the web.In 2007, with its XHTML 2 work mired in seemingly endless debate, the W3C voted to adopt WHATWG's work as the starting point for…
  • Vendors start making progress towards cloud communication

    The latter condition eliminates such big players as Amazon and Google.The Burton Group analyst firm has partnered with vendors to demonstrate single sign-on across real-world applications such as Salesforce.com, Google Apps and Cisco's WebEx…
  • Desktop Linux is a reality now

    The more people adopt Linux and come to understand what computing freedom means, the faster that realisation will propagate to everyone, creating an unstoppable shift in the industry.Con Zymaris is CEO of Cybersource, and director of Open Source…
  • Will Microsoft's Caller ID really kill spam?

    Let's do the job properly and let's also consider the more involved "sender certificate" approach too, for those willing to take the time to adopt such additional protection. In its document Caller ID for Email Microsoft outlines a means of…
 

How-Tos

  • Case Study: From tapes to bits

    Says MacCarn: "If other companies adopt what we're doing, our IT projects are seen in a better light inside our organization. Sun handed over software and servers, but in return, it took ownership of some of WGBH's intellectual property - including…
 
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