Oct 31, 2011
The shift to productivity and entertainment wherever you are is no longer the future, it’s the present, according to Toni Paoletta. “Eventually mobile devices will replace desktops,” says the IT Program Manager for Corporate College. She predicts a huge shift away from personal desktops to mobile devices like phones, tablets, and notebooks. As these devices [...]
Oct 31, 2011
Summary Imagine in a couple years that cloud computing was twice as big as it was now. There were government standards when it came to cloud privacy and because we had embraced cloud-computing America was the clear leader in cloud computing. We could have that , if The United States Government and the Industry would [...]
Oct 31, 2011
This article I read on pcpro.co talks about apples bold move on rejecting any java apps from there iOS app store. Apple announced that java related apps will no longer be approved of use in the app store. Furthermore, apps that are in demo stage, with exhibiting bugs, betas, trials, pornography, or excessive violence will [...]
Oct 31, 2011
Summary: In mid-July Borders announced that they would give up on trying to auction their business to potential buyers and be forced to file for bankruptcy. Barnes & Noble is stepping in and purchasing Borders’ database with more than 48 million customer’s names, addresses, phone numbers, and emails. Now there was arguing in court over the [...]
Oct 30, 2011
Many of us have either heard of or used Dropbox to move our files between computers and other devices. Dropbox has grown to become a recognized internet based file hosting provider and go-to service for backing up files primarily for individual consumers. Dropbox wants to change that by reaching out to business users as well. [...]
Oct 30, 2011
During last month’s OpenWorld conference, Oracle announced a slew of new technologies along with their much anticipated NoSQL database. Finally the Oracle NoSQL is released and will also be included in Oracle’s Big Data Appliance, which will ship during the first three months of this coming year. Oracle says their NoSQL database is targeted towards [...]
Oct 30, 2011
The article I read basically talks about the benefits of using scripting languages over programming languages for creating an application. In particular, the author feels that JavaScript is a powerful tool that has not been utilized to its full potential. It is explained that JavaScript is perceived as more of a toy than a serious [...]
Oct 30, 2011
ASP .NET MVC, a component of Microsoft ASP .NET platform, could be a very powerful tool. It provides separating view of HTML, CSS and Javascript. There are also built-in AJAX functionality and optional jQuery support. In addition, the Razor syntax in ASP .NET MVC 3 provides seamless transition of HTML and C# makeup. All these [...]
Oct 30, 2011
Recently Google announced one of their new projects, Dart. This new language aims to eventually replace Javascript, which Google believes is flawed, and is in dire need of improvement. Their main target with their new language are the iOS devices, like the iPhone, iPod Touch, and the iPad. Dart is unique in the fact that [...]
Oct 30, 2011
Adobe recently announced in this article that they are working on Flash Player 11. As of October 6th it was released. This release will include rendering of 3D graphics which is a significant update from Flash Player 10. Also announced was Adobe Air 3. Adobe has lost some of its former foothold in the video [...]
Oct 30, 2011
Summary: A crucial part of physical data modeling relies on good design of both the logical architecture as well as the physical construct. Data types are used to act as constraints for the data being used in the database. The business rules will determine the data type as per the requirements. To adjust for the [...]
Oct 30, 2011
Erwin Data Modeler is software developed by CA Technologies. According to IDC CA Technologies “is the global market leader in data modeling tools based on 2010 revenues.” It helps users practice database design and modeling. The needs of professionals are taken care of by having drawing, navigation and layout tools with data management functionality. Using [...]
Oct 30, 2011
Summary: This article explains the steps to acquire data from databases. It first used Access as an example, which already support the import feature when using excel. Users simply click on the Data tab -> Get External Data group from access and navigate to the database file, and click on the table. If an user wants [...]
Oct 30, 2011
Around 60,000 historical scientific papers are accessible via a fully searchable online archive, with papers published more than 70 years ago now becoming freely available.The Royal Society is the world’s oldest scientific publisher, with the first edition of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society appearing in 1665. Henry Oldenburg – Secretary of the Royal Society and first Editor [...]
Oct 30, 2011
Summary: Artificial intelligence has been around for ages. This article refers to a new robot named, Adam. It is able to perform experiments from start to finish without the need of human intervention. Adam was able to identity three genes that when coded together created a desirable orphan enzyme found in baker’s yeast. The reason [...]
Oct 30, 2011
Summary: Eleven states have finally approved to allow online voter registration. Digital technology comes really slowly to many offline institutions such as the voting registration process. Within the past few weeks, our governor Jerry Brown signed a bill to legalize the authorization of voter registration online. It is also known that California had a previous [...]
Oct 30, 2011
The article is about a JavaScript framework provider, Sencha, releasing a beta mobile cloud service called Sencha.io. It provides four different services, login, data, messages, and deployment. Sencha.io allows developers to create “shared experiences” over a browser with a few lines of JavaScript code to store data, send and listen for messages, deploy apps, or [...]
Oct 30, 2011
Summary: Google states that in order to make the web better over time, we have to innovate. And that includes creating new programmin languages. Google’s Dart is intended to be an alternative to JavaScript. However, it was acknowledged that Javascript is far from dead, and that Dart is not looking to replace it. Google is [...]
Oct 30, 2011
Websites have become more interactive thanks to JavaScript, but many are concerned that this scripting language can cause so security issues. Web 2.0 has allowed Websites to create a better user experience, and JavaScript takes advantage of this. Malicious JavaScript and Web site security flaws can lead to a security attack. JavaScript is a scripting [...]
Oct 30, 2011
Javascript Spoof! This journal entry I read about is on Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Poisoning and they discuss that one of the ways that poisoning is done is through the insertion of malicious Javascript code in realtime throughout a Local Area Network. ARP Poisoning is when attackers identify themselves as owners of certain IP addresses [...]
0 
0 
4