Microsoft-Yahoo! - Microsoft Fails To Make Up Its Mind What To Do Next
Original post provide by Latest News from AJAXWORLD MAGAZINEDespite meeting yesterday, the Microsoft Board of Directors - according to the Wall St. Journal - has not decided whether its $31 a share offer for Yahoo!, which has fallen in value to $29 a share in line with a fall in Microsoft’s own stock value, should be hoisted to $33 a share in an attempt to keep alive Redmond’s two-year pursuit of the Silicon Valley based search giant.
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Package: DICT Client Summary: Query dictionary servers using the DICT protocol Groups: Networking, Text processing Author: Taras Remez Description: This class can be used to query dictionary servers using the DICT protocol. It can connect to a DICT server and execute several types of queries.
NSA Releases Historical Documents On TEMPEST
Far across the lab, a freestanding oscilloscope had developed a habit of spiking every time the teletype encrypted a letter. Upon closer inspection, the spikes could actually be translated into the plain message the machine was processing. Though he likely didn't know it at the time, the engineer had just discovered that all information processing machines send their secrets into the electromagnetic ether."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Data Structures
Package: Data Structures Summary: Manage lists of objects similar to J2SE ArrayList Groups: Data types, PHP 5 Author: Bryan Chen Description: This class can be used to manage lists of objects in a similar way to Java J2SE ArrayList class. It provides means to reset the array, add, retrieve, replace and remove objects from the array, and sort the array.
A Look At Some Heavy Hitters And Newcomers In The RIA Market
In the world of Rich Internet Applications, there is no shortage of technology choices to compose a user interface. But what tools will give us the best bang for our buck? Here is a look at some heavy hitters and newcomers in the RIA market, including: HTML & AJAX, Rails and Grails, Flex, Silverlight, Curl, GWT, OpenLaszlo, and Appcelerator.
Reflex VSA Furthers Virtualization Visibility And Access Control
Reflex Security announced an initiative to further develop key visibility and access control functionality in its Reflex VSA (Virtual Security Appliance) Solution. Dubbed 'VISability,' for the ability to enable Virtual Infrastructure Security, the initiative to take the approach that without the ability to visualize both the logical and physical elements of a virtual network, comprehensive security cannot be achieved.
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DARPA Sponsors A Hunt For Malware In Microchips
Phurge links to an IEEE Spectrum story on an interesting DARPA project with some scary implications about just what it is we don't know about what chips are doing under the surface. It's a difficult problem to find invasive or otherwise malicious capabilities built into a CPU; this project's goal is to see whether vendors can find such hardware-level spyware in chips like those used in military hardware.
Storm Botnet Subsides For Now
MessageLabs' Intelligence Report for April 2008 said that new malicious software removal tools aimed at removing Storm infections were responsible for the sudden reduction in Storm-infected computers." According to their estimate, Storm-compromised computers are now down to about 100,000 rather than numbers closer to two million.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
OpenBSD 4.3 Released
An anonymous reader writes "OpenBSD 4.3 is now available! Released today, May 1, 2008, 4.3 introduces many new improvements and upgrades. The complete changelog is here. Torrents can be found here." As usual, this release is accompanied by a song.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
On This Date In 1964, The First BASIC Program
Kurtz had been trying to make computing more accessible to their undergraduate students. One problem was that available computing languages like Fortran and Algol were so complex that you really had to be a professional to use them. BASIC is still alive and well these days, from Microsoft's VB.net to cross-platform variants like REALbasic.
MokaFive Bolsters Management Team To Meet Demand For Desktop Virtualization Solution
MokaFive expanded its management team with new executive appointments. John Whaley, a co-founder of the company, has been promoted to Chief Technology Officer while former Cisco/IronPort executive, Ravi Khatod, joins the company as Vice President of Sales. In addition, MokaFive rounded out its advisory board with the addition of Dale Fuller, a seasoned technology veteran with a strong background in operations and information security.