May 6, 2012
The article that I read this week is about JQuery over take Adobe Flash on websites. JQuery is the most popular in JavaScript library. The author mentions that the percentage using JQuery is higher than Flash which is 48 percent of the website is using JQuery. There are 47 percentage that website is using Adobe [...]
By David Huynh Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: HTML, JQuery
May 6, 2012
The FBI is going to sever websites infected with a trojan virus (called DNS changer) from the Internet on July 9th. DNS changer, a virus that popped up in 2007, redirects computers to websites created by hackers. As a result “cyber-criminals sold at least $14 million in advertisements.” To add insult to injury, the trojan [...]
By Robert_Medeiros Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311)
May 6, 2012
Medical images have provided a strong foundation for the health care system in diagnosis and medical studies. Traditionally, developing nations have recorded and viewed images from film rolls. However, as technology advances, digitizing these images have become the normal means of use in many countries, but developing nations have yet to see this switch. “Database [...]
By alexanderheng Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: database management system, DBMS, developing nations, medical
May 6, 2012
According to Oracle, the global CRM market will surpass 18.2 billion in 2012. It was anticipated that the acquisition of Rightnow enables Oracle to expand its use of Cloud Computing but Oracle has recently unveiled a new product roadmap for end-to-end customer experience. Rightnow has spent fourteen years on building customer experience products and brings [...]
By Han Chan Category: Customer Relationship Management and Business Intelligence, Interactive Web Development (CIS 311), Strategic Decision Making Tags: CRM, customer experience, CX, Oracle, Rightnow, Suite, UX
May 6, 2012
In an article found in PC magazine online. They say that there is a flaw in the iPhone Facebook app that can potentially allow a hacker or mischievous individual access to ones Facebook account. They find that the credentials to such accounts are stored in the plist or program list file within the app in [...]
By NelsonTena Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Ethics and Information Security, Globalization, Innovation, and future trends, Networks, Telecom and Mobile Technology, Systems Development and Project Management
May 5, 2012
In this article, it says that this will be the first major update sine the update on SQL Server 2008 R2 in 2010. According to Doug Leland, the Microsoft general manager of the business platform marketing group, SQL Server 2012 is “a modern data platform that embraces the world of traditional structured data and brings [...]
By hoyoungchung Category: Uncategorized
May 5, 2012
The article I read for this week talks about how susceptible smartphone users are that use QR code reader applications. QR codes are a relatively new technology and they are apparently really easy to make and modify. This poses a problem for mobile phone users because if they scan a code that a hacker designed [...]
By joshualatham Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: Hacker, Mobile, QR codes, security
May 5, 2012
The main purpose of MIS (Management Information Systems) is to increase the efficiency of an organization, and its people which many do not know with the use of information technology. Part of it also include to get the required technologies to do those tasks. MIS is broadly categorized into three categories: Human capital, IT, and [...]
By shaleenshah Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: MIS
May 5, 2012
This week I read an article about Adobe Dreamweaver. Adobe has upgraded its version of Dreamweaver and has come out with Dreamweaver CS6. It is said that this version is an essential upgrade for anyone web developing professional who wants to build WebPages or applications that can automatically adapt when viewed in different browsers on [...]
By danielshin Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: Adobe, Dreamweaver
May 4, 2012
BigQuery is a cloud-based service from Google. It is use for analyzing very large sets of data. It was unveiled at the Google I/O developer conference two years ago, and it is now publicly available after a period of limited-availability testing. BigQuery is an online analytical processing system that is able to process larger amount [...]
By RonnyWang Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: Google, Query
May 4, 2012
This article focuses on the idea of fuzzy logic integrated into a database. What is fuzzy logic? It is a generalized logical condition (GLC) extension with its own set of rules in determining the data selection and data classification into one entity. In other words, fuzzy logic has a more “reasonable” approach and instead of [...]
By Chris Sabatino Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses, Uncategorized
May 4, 2012
The author of this article talks about JQuery and how to use it on websites. jQuery was first developed by John Resig and made its debut early 2006 having since gained popularity among websites including WordPress,Mozilla, Google and Netflix. jQuery is an open source library full of JavaScript that can be used to select elements [...]
By Antonio Montanez Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: JQuery
May 4, 2012
In this article the authors emphasize on social media such as blogs and microblogs and how their users publish their personal activities and interest so rapidly. The authors believe that this kind of information is valuable from different viewpoints such as sociological, linguistics, and marketing. The proposition of a system for analyzing temporal changes in [...]
By Ricardo Chaidez Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: analyse, Blogs, Database, Intelligence, visualization
May 3, 2012
The article title “SCface – surveillance cameras face database”, covers that idea of adding static images of human faces into a general database and applying an algorithm to go through the database to match the faces to the images in the database. The general idea to add thousands of static images of some 100 plus [...]
By Robert Quach Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: face recognition, image database, images
May 3, 2012
Cloud computing can give any business the capability to access applications and data from anywhere in the world on demand. Another attractive benefit is the fact that cloud computing is a service and the user (business) is not responsible for costs associated from buying, upgrading, or maintaining any parts. Thus a small business can pay [...]
By Abel Ramirez Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: Cloud, Cloud Computing, competitive advantage, small business
Apr 30, 2012
On Monday April 30th, LG reveals a new service called the LG Cloud. It will allow users with LG devices to access and stream their data from anywhere, currently available in the US and Korea as a Beta version. LG will offer 5GB of free storage for those without an LG device and 50GB of [...]
By David Aslanyan Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: Cloud, LG, streaming
Apr 30, 2012
The Mozilla foundation release Firefox 9 on December 22, 2011. The web browser runs up to 36% percent faster than version 8. A small part of the user interface for Mac OS X 10.7 was changed while it stayed the same for Windows. It also patched 6 vulnerabilities. Firefox 12 is set to be released [...]
By Mike Yamamoto Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: Chrome, Firefox, JavaScript
Apr 30, 2012
This week I read an interesting article that concerns the safety of uploading pictures taken from a smartphone. The article “How a Cell Phone Busted a Hacker”, by Taylor Armerding, Armerding explains how the FBI tracked down an “Anonymous-linked CabinCr3w” hacktivist member from a pictures posted on various websites bragging about his achievements (Armerding, 2012). The hacker, [...]
By DavidLi Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Ethics and Information Security, Networks, Telecom and Mobile Technology, Uncategorized
Apr 29, 2012
Free Antivirus applications which are reliable This article compares the differences between nine free antivirus applications. The applications are run through a battery of tests provided by AV-Test. In the lab the applications were tested on detection of new and old malware, and how well they can clean it up. The antivirus application’s usability was [...]
By David Aslanyan Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305) Tags: antivirus
Apr 29, 2012
This article talks about how the FBI is warning that hundreds of thousands of people could lose their internet connections when July comes around. This is all due to a malware known as DNSChanger. How DNSChanger works is that when you enter a Web address into the browser, the computer contacts the DNS servers to [...]
By toantran Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311) Tags: DNSChanger, ip, Web Security