Joy BlakeJoy's InfoWorld WatchPassport defangs itself- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Joho the Blog According to an article by Joris Evers in Infoworld on Oct. 20, Microsoft has dropped its o'erweening ambitions for Passport. Instead of being the "single sign-on for the Web," it's now going to be a service for Microsoft and the few partners who had signed up to use the service. Says the article: "In 1999, the Redmond, Washington-based company envisioned thousands of online stores and other services using Passport, allowing users to sign on using the same user name and password...http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/003321.html Mozilla considers desktop search integration for Firefox- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Deren Smith's Neowin.net Having launched the much-awaited version 1.0 of the Firefox browser on Tuesday, the Mozilla Foundation is busy planning future enhancements to the open-source product, including the possibility of integrating it with a variety of desktop search tools. The Mozilla Foundation also wants to place Firefox in PCs through OEM (original equipment manufacturer) deals with PC hardware vendors and to continue to sharpen the product's pop-up ad blocking technology. These and other.http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=25489&category=main Mozilla considers desktop search integration for Firefox- (Found July 5, 2008 ) WebStractions An InfoWorld article is reporting that the Mozilla Foundation is considering desktop search integration for Firefox. Chris Hofmann, the Mozilla Foundation's engineering director says, "There are a variety of companies that are working on that technology and we may just try and identify a way for Firefox to plug into a variety of desktop search engines and enable users to pick and choose." Some of the possible desktop search vendors include X1 Technologies Inc., Copernic...http://www.webstractions.com/news/2004/11/mozilla-considers-desktop-search.html Business Rules Engine Roundup- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Chris Maeda Pointer to a good review article on business rule engines; appeared in Infoworld in June 2004. Infoworld Business Rules Engine Review. The article forgot the unfortunately named but open source DROOLS engine.http://www.cmaeda.com/index.php?p=27 The benefit of sharing application state- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Mikel Berger "In a Web application, those hooks are simply URLs. Consider what happens when you include a MapQuest URL in an email to someone. A piece of state information -- namely, the state of the MapQuest viewer when displaying a given location -- has been reduced to a token that one person can hand to another. The same thing can usefully apply to the state of a shopping cart, or an airline reservation. The idea that an application wears its state information on its sleeve, readily...http://www.mjberger.com/archives/2004/11/the_benefit_of.html Microsoft's new command shell- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Adventures in home working Microsoft have finally decided to take the Windows Command shell seriously, or at least Jeffrey Snover - the lead architect did. They are creating a next generation sell that is built on top of .NET. John Udell does a great job of describing it so please read his article, it will blow you away and don't for get to watch the video as well. "MSH is quirky, complex, delightful, and utterly addictive. You can, for example, convert objects to and from XML so that...http://steves.businessblog.com/blog/_archives/2004/11/3/174186.html Geen Itanium 2-support in Windows Server 2003 CCE- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Tweakers.net Eind mei werd door ons gemeld dat Microsoft bezig is met de ontwikkeling van een speciale Windows-versie voor supercomputers, een domein dat op dit moment voornamelijk het bezit is van Linux en enkele Unix-varianten. Ongeveer een maand later werd bekend dat Microsoft deze speciale versie van Windows aan het einde van volgend jaar wil introduceren. InfoWorld meldt nu dat deze Windows-versie voor supercomputers alleen zal kunnen samenwerken met x86-processors die zijn uitgerust met...http://www.tweakers.net/nieuws/35001 FireFox 1.0 Released- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Ted's Radio Weblog "The Mozilla Foundation has released Version 1.0 of its Firefox browser, an open-source product that has generated lofty expectations that it will offer real competition to Microsoft Corp.'s ubiquitous Internet Explorer." Posted at InfoWorld: Top News. Use BitTorrent, if you can, and the download goes faster than greased lightening.http://radio.weblogs.com/0117767/2004/11/09.html#a1289 Information security field to grow steadily.- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Sree Nilakanta's Radio Weblog The number of cybersecurity professionals is projected to grow at an annual compound rate of nearly 14 percent from now until 2008, according to a study released this week during the Computer Security Institute (CSI) trade show in Washington, D.C. InfoWorld: Top News Another piece of good news for our graduates!http://radio.weblogs.com/0112415/2004/11/09.html#a76 Blogger Now Available in Nine Languages- (Found July 5, 2008 ) SearchEngineWatch Infoworld reports in: Blogger goes multilingual, that Google is now making interfaces and documentation available for Blogger in nine languages. Until now, Blogger was only available in English. "Google Inc. is calling the first phase of the service's internationalization...Now, key Blogger sections, such as its sign-in and account pages, are available in Japanese, traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, Korean, French, Italian, Spanish, German and Brazilian Portuguese,...http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/041116-110650 |