According to the Register, a London-based security consultant has created a tool which proves that “that MySpace and other social networking sites can represent a gaping chink in an otherwise hardened corporate network.” With the PKI Book, created by Petko D. Petkov, you can “type in the domain name of [...]
The Wall Street Journal claims that “[s]ocial-networking Web site Facebook Inc. is quietly working on a new advertising system that would let marketers target users with ads based on the massive amounts of information people reveal on the site about themselves.” The Washington Post reports that “Microsoft Corp. has partnered [...]
CNetNews.com reports that “[i]n a blog posting Sunday, Adobe's top creative products executive, John Loiacono, made unflattering remarks about open-source alternatives whose free cost is offset by the time that creative pros have to spend fiddling.” Loiacono points out that “what designers need is tightly-integrated workflows and high reliability right [...]
According to PCWorld.com, “[m]ore evidence is emerging that Apache is suffering against Redmond, after a survey revealed that Microsoft's Internet Information Services Web server is outserving Apache on Fortune 1000 websites. According to Port80 Software, which periodically surveys the public sites of Fortune 1000 companies to determine their use of [...]
On June 8, Alain Pompidou, President of the European Patent Office (EPO) from July 2004 to June 2007, shared his thoughts on the European patent system at a press conference in Brussels. Under Mr. Pompidou’s leadership, the rate of patents being granted by the EPO within three years went up [...]
