Date: 08/11/06     Keywords: no keywords

Here is the AdSense success formula from AdSense team. 1. A content-rich page = Highly-targeted ads 2. Highly-targeted ads + Interested users = Healthy clickthrough & conversion rates 3. Healthy clickthrough & conversion rates = Success! Source: Mike Gutner - AdSense Optimization Team So to conclude: A content-rich page + Interested users = Success! It is surprising how many people cannot [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/adsense-success-formula-from-adsense/

Date: 08/10/06     Keywords: no keywords

According to IDC study, the same four vendors that led the content management market two years ago still lead it today, although their individual rankings have changed. The study, which presents vendor shares for over 50 worldwide content management vendors, reveals that EMC’s acquisition of Captiva catapulted the company into the top spot. FileNet, IBM, [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/leading-content-management-software-study/

Date: 08/10/06     Keywords: no keywords

Chapanar, a parole absconder for more than a year, couldn’t resist putting his picture on Myspace.com, most recently bragging about his newborn son. Viewers of the Bay Area cable-access show “Fugitive Watch'’ found his profile on Myspace and calls poured in. After officers staked him out at a West San Jose home about 4 p.m., he [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/myspace-profile-becomes-fugitives-undoing/

Date: 08/10/06     Keywords: java

Rob Sanheim commented on Java & Ruby communities. Ruby has Dr. Nic, and blogs like the Rails Blob while Java has Hani and his BileBlog. That underlines part of the reason I want to be with Java community. In my experience Ruby community, with few exceptions, consists of lots of over-zealous fans unlike Java community. Java [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/on-java-and-ruby-communities/

Date: 08/10/06     Keywords: no keywords

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said on Wednesday it was giving $500 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, by far its biggest grant to the fund, which says it sorely lacks cash. The money, to be given over five years, is the largest private donation to the fund, founded nearly [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/bill-gates-gates-foundation-gives-500-million-to-global-fund-to-fight-aids-tb-and-malaria/

Date: 08/10/06     Keywords: no keywords

Nearly one in 10 people in UK believe they have fallen victim to identity fraud, according to a survey of 2,200 adults by YouGov. People aged under 30 are most prone to falling victim because they are the poorest at protecting personal details, the survey suggests. Two-thirds in these groups admitted to giving a PIN or bank [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/one-in-ten-in-uk-victim-of-id-crimes/

Date: 08/10/06     Keywords: software

FileNet is a publicly traded California company with an annual revenue last year of nearly $422 million. The 24-year-old company is one of the largest specialists in content and document management software sold to large corporations. IBM said that it will integrate FileNet’s products with its own content-management software developed in its Information Management division. In addition, [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ibm-to-acquire-filenet-content-management-software-for-16-billion-cash/

Date: 08/10/06     Keywords: no keywords

Seymour Cray, the father of the supercomputer, died recently aged 71, following a car crash. He was one of the most original computer designers the world has ever seen, and a true maverick. Seeking a way to cool the machine he built in 1985, at the time the fastest computer in the world, he characteristically [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/seymour-cray-super-computers-and-inspirational-elves/

Date: 08/10/06     Keywords: security

Researchers at Cardiff University have uncovered a flaw in HSBC’s online banking security process that has left over three million customer accounts vulnerable to attack over the last two years. The researchers found that anyone using the attack would have guaranteed access to an account with at most nine tries. The researchers have so far only divulged [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/flaw-in-hsbc-online-banking-exposes-3-million-customers/

Date: 08/10/06     Keywords: technology

MyTobii P10 is a portable computer that does not require any form of tactile input; instead, it relies on precise eye-tracking technology. Everything, including a15” screen, eye control device and computer, is integrated into one unit. Just connect to a power source, such as a wall socket, power wheelchair or separate battery. The device can [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/eye-tracking-pc-for-als-multiple-sclerosis-or-cerebral-palsy-patients/

Date: 08/10/06     Keywords: security

A serious security concern in Ruby on Rails has forced the Rails team to come up with release 1.1.5, without waiting for the scheduled release of 1.2. David from Ruby on Rails team says: This is a MANDATORY upgrade for anyone not running on a very recent edge (which isn’t affected by this). If you have a [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/serious-security-hole-in-ruby-on-rails/

Date: 08/10/06     Keywords: php

Everytime I tried to upload a file to my PmWiki (popular PHP based Wiki) installation, it failed with “no file uploaded” error. Also it asks me for password thrice, once before accessing the upload page and twice after uploading. The solution was to remove the password check on upload. As it is an intranet installation, accessed [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-solve-pmwiki-file-upload-problem-other-upload-tips/

Date: 08/09/06     Keywords: security

A booby-trapped game of noughts and crosses (BBProxy) has been used in Black Hat hacker conference to show how a Blackberry can be easily hijacked to steal confidential data. Created by a security researcher the game contains malicious code that turns the popular mobile e-mail device into a backdoor into corporate networks. The creator, Jesse D’Aguanno of [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hijacked-blackberry-turns-data-spy/

Date: 08/09/06     Keywords: browser

Mozilla Corp. delayed the release of the second beta of its Firefox 2.0 browser by a week. Firefox 2.0, which appeared as Beta 1 last month, was to shift into Beta 2 Aug. 8, but will now be posted Tuesday, Aug. 15 according to minutes of the company’s weekly status meeting. via InternetWeek The code freeze was [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/firefox-20-beta-2-delayed/

Date: 08/09/06     Keywords: google

The University of California is joining Google’s book-scanning project, throwing the weight of another 100 academic libraries behind an ambitious venture that’s under legal attack for alleged copyright infringement. The deal covers all the libraries in UC’s 10-campus system, marking the biggest expansion of Google’s effort to convert millions of library books into digital form since [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/university-of-california-joins-google-library-project/

Date: 08/09/06     Keywords: no keywords

The AdWords API Sandbox is an environment that replicates the API of the live site, for developing, testing and debugging applications that use the AdWords API. When a developer logs in, AdWords accounts are automatically created in the Sandbox, then the developer can create and run campaigns, adgroups, creatives, and other operations on those accounts [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-adwords-api-team-offers-sandbox-for-developers/

Date: 08/09/06     Keywords: java

I previously mentioned that I intended not to use any Java ORM frameworks. ORM frameworks I have seen so far have a steep learning curve and tend to shoe horn your architecture into their model. So I started fresh without any ORM frameworks like Hibernate or Spring (which I have heard is better). I am [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/super-simple-java-framework-for-sql-happy-developers/

Date: 08/09/06     Keywords: web, google

The Sony mylo (short for “my life online”) is a nifty handheld device that will allow you to access a fun set of features from a WiFi network. With 1GB of memory you can store music and photos, browse the web, or use email and IM (with QWERTY keyboard). The mylo comes with built-in Google [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-talk-marries-sony-mylo-handheld-device/

Date: 08/09/06     Keywords: security, web

Recently AOL released 20 million web search queries, over a period of three months, from 650, 000 AOL search engine users. The data anonymizes user identity by assigning them numerical id. However that is not much security as users can be easily identified. With such leaks it is easy to find out what you are [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/1-minute-guide-to-protect-against-search-engines-tracking-using-firefox-browser/

Date: 08/09/06     Keywords: no keywords

Ozura Mobile, a leading publisher and developer of mobile entertainment, today announced they are releasing Lava Kroft to mobile phones and users globally. This mobile action adventure game stars Lava Kroft who is a new age woman who has an exceptional thirst for discovering some of the most intriguing and mystical treasures in the world [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/meet-lara-croft-err-lava-kroft-in-mobile-phone-adventure-game/