Mar 12, 2012
The author’s thesis in the article was describing a product named DynamoDB that was released by the big well known company Amazon. The author describes the database service DynamoDB as being speedy and scalable, and that it’s designed for web applications. The author goes on about DynamoDB by saying it addresses the needs of today’s [...]
Mar 12, 2012
My article is talking about Amazon’s new database service. The database service is called DynamoDB, which is speedy and scalable, designed for web applications. The article goes on saying that DynamoDB addresses the needs of todays web based apps, which often face challenges with increase in traffic, users, and data. DynamoDB gives the users the [...]
Mar 12, 2012
My article is talking about Amazon’s new database service. The database service is called DynamoDB, which is speedy and scalable, designed for web applications. The article goes on saying that DynamoDB addresses the needs of todays web based apps, which often face challenges with increase in traffic, users, and data. DynamoDB gives the users the [...]
Mar 5, 2012
So my article is about the history of Apache. The article I chose is from 2002. And I chose it because it would be useful to know about the history in order to make a better future. The article is defining Apache HTTP Server 1.3 by saying it’s an open source success story that’s still [...]
Mar 5, 2012
So my article is about the hack that hit the Sony Europe server. You all know the name Sony, and one of their servers that is stationed in Europe got a rain of hacks. The hacker was able to get users information such as passwords, email, phone numbers and so on. The hacker’s name was [...]
Feb 27, 2012
So my article is talking about Microsoft Visual Studio and how it was waiting for .NET. In general, the article is describing how Visual InterDev- Microsoft’s current tool for building Active Service Pages- will disappear as a separate product. Instead, Microsoft incorporated Visual InterDev’s functionality into other Studio tools, such as Visual Basic and [...]
Feb 27, 2012
So my article is talking about Malware that are installed on people’s computers through Web Paging. Lately, there have been a large number of internet sites that have been compromised by SQL injection attacks. What happens is simple; the attack modifies the databases used by the sites so that they redirect the user to other [...]
Feb 20, 2012
My article is talking about Google Chrome’s new features. Apparently, Chrome has announced that some new games would run only in Chrome 14 that uses the browser’s Native Client capability. Google added a new Chrome-only feature that allows the browser to run applications programmed in hardcore languages like C and C++ as opposed to the [...]
Feb 20, 2012
My article is talking about a group of hackers that managed to hack into one of Apple’s servers. The anonymous group was able to infiltrate into the server that Apple used to process technical support follow-up surveys. With the attack, they were only able to retrieve 27 user names and passwords, and from what Apple [...]
Feb 13, 2012
So my article is talking about the improvements of the Firefox 9 web browser. Recently, Google’s web browser Chrome has been surpassing the Firefox web browser. But with the new improvements that Firefox is bringing, it is no longer being over shadowed by Chrome. Mozilla sped up JavaScript performance in its Firefox 9 browser by [...]
Feb 13, 2012
So my article is about Oracle’s excellent database performance. Apparently, Oracle has set a new world record for database performance, the company’s SPARC Supercluster enterprise computing system has stepped over the previous world’s holder, IBMs Power 780 server. Next they go on about describing the database’s results, and they were just amazing. The results were [...]
Feb 8, 2012
My article was talking about a Kenyan Internet Database company that was being scammed by Google employees. The name of company is Mocality. And it maintains a crowd-sourced online directory of Kenyan businesses. What happened was that Google started Getting Kenyan Businesses Online, which launched last year. It was a Google project to attract Kenyan [...]
Feb 5, 2012
My article was about the website mega upload dilemma. What happened was that the US government shut down the mega upload website because it broke some US copy right laws. The article is specifically talking about the people who were using mega upload as a data base. Which is what we call a cloud computing [...]
Feb 5, 2012
My article is about some of the old SQL server products. It talks about how that some of the SQL products were vulnerable to attacks by hackers, and that they needed patches for it to be fixed and properly securing the data. As it say “All attacks must proceed from an authenticated user, but this [...]
Jan 29, 2012
article is about cloud computing and it’s maturing. A survey conducted by Avanade found out that cloud computing is becoming more mature as more companies are acquiring it. From it, they noticed that businesses have increased investments in securing, managing, and supporting cloud computing. Some of the survey’s highlights are: 74 percent of enterprises are [...]
Jan 29, 2012
Jan 22, 2012
My article is about Google Chrome 11 and some of its new features. It was released in 2011. HTML voice input support was added to Chrome 11. It also switched to a 2-D version of its familiar logo. The built in speech recognition is available on windows and Mac machines. Google’s own translate site has [...]
Jan 15, 2012
My article talks about the best software/websites that are out there. Software for graphic designers, web developers, operating systems and so forth. In the article they rate the software/websites and write a brief summary about it. Some of the software I thought is helpful for IT students are: LinkedIn: That is a resource website for [...]
Jan 15, 2012
My article talks about Oracle and its importance in data security. Nowadays, consolidation, outsourcing and cloud computing are some of the most important aspects in IT organizations and they all focus on data security. Companies right now are trying to move beyond securing the network; they are trying to secure the data itself. Oracle is [...]
Jan 8, 2012
The article is talking about Tim Berners-Lee and people who contributed in creating the web. Tim wrote the coding for a hypertext-based system of connecting information that would use the TCP/IP protocols of the Internet plus a simple addressing scheme. That was 20 years ago. And Tim admits that he wouldn’t have made it without [...]
