Mar 12, 2012
There are always new things you can do with plenty of applications, and this is no exception. With Visual Basic for Applications, you can share data between two different Microsoft applications. The article uses the example of using Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word 2011, the writer wants to embed data from a Excel project (a [...]
Mar 1, 2012
Legislatures are finally going green, or at least in Massachusetts they are. The Massachusetts legislation just implemented a new system called Legislative Automated Workflow System (LAWS) for all of the work that passes through the districts and courts. This was all made possible by an IT solution company named Tallan, Inc. The system was designed [...]
Feb 24, 2012
As we all know, there are new versions of software coming out almost every year, from Apple to Microsoft. With that said, Microsoft will come out with the newest version of Visual Studio (announced in 2011), Visual Studio 11 (also called vNext). This newest version can go through the entire life cycle of a software [...]
Feb 19, 2012
It is very common to see or hear about hackers finding new ‘vulnerabilities’ within huge corporations, therefore it is safe to say that this is just another one. Some exploit code was discovered that affected Microsoft’s ASP.NET web development platform, it was called CVE-2011-3414. This type of code apparently allows for all CPU resources to [...]
Feb 11, 2012
With the world of technology constantly changing around us, it has become somewhat of a norm for updates to occur regularly. So it is only suitable that almost a year ago, JQuery made a new addition to its family tree, JQuery version 1.6. This new version was created to speed up the “JavaScript- rendered websites.” [...]
Feb 5, 2012
There are plenty of ways to attack someone’s computer, maybe through a virus aimed at attacking their personal documents or the type of software designed to retrieve account numbers, passwords, etc. from any server. The beauty is that we have firewalls and antivirus to prevent events like the ones mentioned above from happening. But with [...]
Jan 29, 2012
It’s finally here, the standardized CSS version 2.1. CSS, Cascading Style Sheets is exactly its name stands for; it’s the feel and presentation of a web page. The World Wide Web Consortium finally came out with this version in their latest session. It enables the designer to manage their pages with ease but at the [...]
Jan 22, 2012
Almost a year ago, browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, etc started popping up with HTML 5 but the problem was that it was not quite as stable as many would like. Yes it has great features but the problem many saw was the fact that a lot of testing still had to be done for [...]
Jan 15, 2012
It can be a real shame when companies try dirty, little tricks only to benefit their pockets. Well tricks like that can be seen every day, but we cannot simply dump every trick in one bucket, some can be labeled the SEO tricks. The author focuses on six activities that companies have tried to use [...]
Jan 8, 2012
Everyone knows what an IP address is used for, therefore most people know what theirs is, however with the depletion of available addresses, and some changes have to be made. With IPv4, 4 billion addresses were made available with 12 digits however with IPv6 the creation of longer addresses was made possible therefore allowing for [...]
Nov 27, 2011
With computer hacking on the rise, it’s no wonder people are looking at other ways to avoid these inconveniences. The author explains this new way of approaching password guessing attacks from unauthorized users; it is called PGRP (Password Guessing Resistance Protocol). With past ways, the ATT-based login protocols allowed for very few user free attempts [...]
Nov 20, 2011
Summary: There has to be something said about security, every day we enter more and more companies investing more money into it. And this is not a bad thing. In this publishing, the writer explores different ways for companies to assess risk factors within the IT infrastructure and manage these threats. The author proposes for [...]
Nov 12, 2011
Summary: It has become obvious that we do not live in a perfect world, but with everyone logging online and purchasing so much via Internet, you would think companies have prepared themselves, meaning protecting our private information from outsiders. Of course this is not the case, every day we are hearing about more corporations becoming [...]
Nov 6, 2011
It is well known that Google was at the forefront of NoSQL. This movement was to create a new type of database that could pass large amounts of information across the world. However, Google is now unleashing the original SQL database to its Google Application Engine, “a means of building and hosting atop Google’s online [...]
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 21, 2011
A universal corpus would be considered a collection of 30 + languages along with their written text, annotations (including the sentence structure brought on from translation), etc. It would be a central, resourceful database that holds and processes linguistic information. The text and annotations would be inputted by the scholarly community accompanied with proper citations. [...]
Oct 16, 2011
Summary: It is common knowledge, that every major technology corporation has data warehouses or data backup sites. But have many of us thought about the energy usage of these locations. Well Greenpeace has, they even published a report titled, “How Dirty is your Data?” in which it listed the top nine technology companies and their [...]
Oct 8, 2011
Sex Offender Profile: Non-Sexual Crime Committed Summary: According to the article, in many states, including Georgia, any person who is convicted of kidnapping or falsely imprisoning a minor, must register as a sex offender, even if no sex crime was actually committed. Once the convict is realized there face is forever plastered on the sex [...]
Oct 2, 2011
Music Reviews Out the Door? Summary: Published music reviews are becoming more and more obsolete. People are no longer buying the magazines that publish these reviews, even though the music industry continues to expand. Corporations like Google and Yahoo Music, have allowed the listeners to become the critics through such websites like YouTube. So the [...]
Sep 28, 2011
The “One and Only” Disease-Causing Gene Database We live in a society where information is everything. Everyday we expose ourselves to large amounts of data. Therefore it is easy to say that the people that have all this information have power.The power to change the world. But what if this information could potentially save lives? [...]
