Many companies have struggled to develop an overarching strategy for dealing with evolving ways of using the web, the explosion of social media, and the growth of casual — and sometimes not so casual — web use by mobile users. While platforms like Blackberry, iPhone, and Android have for some time had the ability to [...]
The epic courtroom battle between Oracle and Google revolves around controversial patents and copyrights, alleged betrayals (by both parties) of the Open Source movement, and the inevitable spectacle resulting from a Goliath vs Goliath courtroom collision. The Java language at the heart of Oracle’s intellectual property claims was created by Sun Computing and put into [...]
A new Mac trojan is threatening Macintoshes — even before the massive Flashback-created Mac botnet and the malware that created it has been completely neutralized. New targeted Mac OS X Trojan requires no user interaction First, don’t panic. But… it is cause for concern that there is yet another ‘drive-by’ malware attack on the Macintosh’s [...]
The Wall Steet Journal has an overview of lessons learned by early adopters of enterprise tablet use… Here Come Tablets. Here Come Problems.
Here’s a very informative article that covers some of the issues facing those who want to display images of their own creation online — but want to minimize their unauthorized use by others. From DWUser, who publish the XML Flash Slideshow and Easy Rotator tools: Stop the Thieves! Strategies to Protect Your Images
From Business Week comes a report of more bad news for 15 minute wonders, Groupon… The company had announced 4Q net income of about $15 million on revenue of $506.5M. But a revelation of faulty accounting accompanied a revised revenue figure of $492.2M — for an operating loss of… $15 million Groupon Discloses ‘Material Weakness’; [...]
A new survey of corporate IT managers from Information Week shows that Apple is slowly gaining a place in the corporate information technology scene — led in large part by widespread acceptance of the iPhone (50% of respondents said their enterprise supports it) and the iPad (47% officially support it) — but that Apple’s desktop [...]
While the sorry case of Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull of Montana — who, as of this writing, has not yet resigned, though the calls for that action are stacking up deeper than a Montana blizzard snowbank — is fresh in mind, it’s a good idea to review your organization’s — and your personal [...]
MySQL… It’s the open source database that runs much of the web. From WordPress blogs (like this one) to hundreds of thousands of e-commerce and other sites, MySQL has proved to be not just a solid performer that could compete with expensive alternatives like MS SQL Server or Oracle’s own database system, but a much desired [...]
Web standards committees screw the dev community once again!
This article from Wired/WebMonkey sums it up nicely… well, maybe not nicely… Ready or Not, Adaptive-Image Solution Is Now Part of HTML The web needs a more intelligent way to serve images. No one wants to waste bandwidth sending large images over limited mobile pipes, but everyone wants images to look good on the myriad [...]