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From a press release from Acunetix: Businesses and non-commercial entities have much to consider when it comes to securing their web applications and the data they keep on customers and patrons. Acunetix, a leading vendor of web application security solutions, today revealed that on average 70% of websites are at serious and immediate risk of …
From the New York Times: Microsoft was ordered by a federal jury yesterday to pay $1.52 billion in a patent dispute over the MP3 format, the technology at the heart of the digital music boom. If upheld on appeal, it would be the largest patent judgment on record. The ruling, in Federal District Court in …
There are a few steps I do to almost all of my images after I have captured them. Over the next couple of weeks, I will go over some of them, step by step. The first step to obtaining a great final image is setting your black and white points. Most, but not all photographs …
From USA Today: The tech quandary for many small businesses isn’t about building a better website or when to buy Microsoft’s new Vista operating system. It’s an old problem managers thought they’d already licked: spam. Unwanted commercial e-mail has surged in recent months as online fraudsters, bogus pharmaceutical suppliers and others send billions of pieces …
I’ve seen this mentioned on several sites lately. DVD Flick is an open source DVD authoring tool: DVD Flick aims to be a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back …
I read about this on Pirillo’s Picks… Send To Toys is an enhancement of the Send To system menu. – Send To Toys Control Panel Applet allows you to manage the Send To system menu content, and configure the various Send To Toys settings. – “Add to Send To menu” and “Remove from Send To …
From the New York Times: Jett Lucas, a 14-year-old friend, tells me the kids in his middle school send one other a steady stream of instant messages through the day. But there’s a problem. “Kids will say things to each other in their messages that are too embarrassing to say in person,” Jett tells me. …
Photoshop Lightroom, the much anticipated new software from Adobe is now available for purchase from the Adobe Store. Developed for professional photographers who need to manage and adjust large volumes of photographs, Lightroom allows quick and easy adjustment to a large number of images from a variety of formats. Watch here for review of Adobe …
From TechRepublic: It’s no secret that the servers behind every Web 2.0 company, bank Internet site and corporate e-mail system are consuming ever larger amounts of power. But now a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory study to be released Thursday has quantified exactly how much. Servers in the United States and their attendant cooling systems consumed …
From BusinessWeek: The pressure on Google to institute more aggressive copyright protections and policies is mounting. The latest heat emanates from social-networking site MySpace, which announced Feb. 12 that it is expanding the use of audio screening technology to block the uploading of unlicensed videos to its site. The company already uses “fingerprinting” technology licensed …