Date: 10/02/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: software, technology, security

Remote XT technology, a UK firm designed a cell phone security system which sets off a high pitch scream, permanently locks the handset and finally wipes all data if the cell phone is stolen. They hope it will halt the spiraling rise (190% increase) in phone theft. The Remote XT technology works by installing software onto [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/screaming-cell-phones-just-what-the-doctor-ordered/

Date: 10/04/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: technology, web, seo

I thought this was an interesting article.
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18 Questions Your CEO Forgot to Ask When Building Your Website

Why are you always retrofitting and re-optimizing? Your CEO (or other decision maker) didn’t ask the right questions. You need to know how to build and promote a website from the ground up to be successful. Picture your perfect web presence. Visualize web 2.0 Zen. Now work backwards and apply these principles to your website among various time, budget, legacy technology, and personal ego obstacles of varying degrees in the way of your quest towards website enlightement. Welcome to the world of SEO.

There’s a big difference between an “ideal website” built in a vacuum with an unlimited budget and no competition versus retrofitting, optimizing, and improving and existing website. These are the questions your CEO forgot to ask. Make sure they get asked. If you understand the IDEAL website and the value of each component that would go into it - you can understand how to balance financial and time budgets for the highest ROI on a project, and overcome the normal hurdles that every company faces. These are the top questions your CEO forgot to ask.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1172898.html

Date: 10/04/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: technology, virus

Sophos has launched a host intrusion detection technology which it claims can spot any malware before it has a chance to execute anywhere on the network. It is integrated into the company’s anti-virus scanning engine. HIPS uses “behavioural genotype protection” to analyse executable code at the network gateway, or before it runs on server or [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sophos-claims-inventing-foolproof-malware-scanner-using-behavioural-genotype-protection/

Date: 10/09/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: technology, microsoft

Microsoft licenses Blinkx technology to power video search on parts of MSN and Live.com.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6123829.html

Date: 10/12/06 (Security)    Keywords: technology, microsoft

PatchGuard, a Microsoft technology to protect Windows, will be hacked sooner rather than later, an expert predicts.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6125274.html

Date: 10/18/06 (Security)    Keywords: technology, security

Companies should look to technology to make up for employees' lack of security savvy, authors recommend.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6126924.html

Date: 10/23/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: technology

Big Blue files suit, saying mega e-tailer is infringing intellectual property ranging from advertising to hyperlink technology.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6128439.html

Date: 10/23/06 (Security)    Keywords: technology, microsoft

The e-mail authentication technology can now be used without fear of a response from Microsoft's intellectual property lawyers.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6128763.html

Date: 10/25/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: html, technology, asp

AMD recommends Core 2 Duo
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35329

Catch the rest of the hilarity here:

Overdrive Core2.X-Fire
http://ati.amd.com/technology/crossfire/promotions/overdrivecore/

[Note: While the promo price of three thousand dollars for Overdrive Core2.X-Fire is steep, it is half the original price of six thousand dollars...]

Gateway FX510XT
http://ati.amd.com/technology/crossfire/promotions/gateway/

Velocity Micro Raptor DCX
http://ati.amd.com/technology/crossfire/promotions/velocitymicro/index.html

I expect these pages to disappear quickly.

x-post intel_core

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/993442.html

Date: 10/30/06 (Security)    Keywords: technology

Company pitches "DriveTrust" technology as a simpler way to safeguard data stored on laptops and to prevent embarrassing breaches.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6130824.html

Date: 11/01/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: technology

Gracenote is among the first to cash in on technology that helps weed out copyright material, but it won't be the last.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6131606.html

Date: 11/03/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: technology

Search engine is gaining ground and snagging business from rivals in move to focus on technology, not ads.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6132473.html

Date: 11/05/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: technology

I gave a presentation on IT entrepreneurship at National Institute of Technology Durgapur to MBA students and local entrepreneurs in summer of this year. The presentation was in my laptop which I finally got a chance to open today. The presentation may be slightly cryptic to some as there are not much notes to go [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/guide-to-it-entrepreneurship-in-india/

Date: 11/04/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: technology

While they're using different approaches, both efforts to woo hipsters come amid critical times for the technology giants.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6132624.html

Date: 11/08/06 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: technology, java

Hi, I'm new to both this community and JavaScript.

Will try to make it short and sweet.

I'm in library school, and the instructor for my technology course wants us to write a "simple" JavaScript function that displays the titles and URLs of appropriate search engines and directories, depending on the age the the user inputs.

The instructor has written the program, and we just have to write one function within the program.

This is an ungraded assignment, by the way. But I'm too stubborn to just let it go. I have to know why it's wrong.

I'm on my fifth revision at the moment, and I just can't take looking at the code anymore. I've been to the teaching assistant, and even he doesn't know what's wrong with it.

So, here's the URL.

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~lnosek/690SSearchToolSelector%20-%20Nosek_Revised5.htm

If anyone could tell me how to get the information to display, I'll make you a present. How about a user icon? I'm pretty handy with the Photoshop. :)

< /shameless begging >

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/javascript/118222.html

Date: 11/11/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: mysql, technology, sql

i'm just starting to learn the beauty of adodb. freaking hella saved lines of unnecessarily repeated code.

$sql = "SELECT * FROM $dbname.accounts WHERE id = '".$_COOKIE["account_id"]."'";
$result = $__db->Execute($sql);
$account_name = $result->fields["name"];
$account_prestige = $result->fields["prestige"];
$account_rank = $result->fields["rank"];
$account_kills = $result->fields["kills"];

replaced:

$account_query = "SELECT * FROM $dbname.accounts WHERE id = '".$_COOKIE["account_id"]."'";
$account_result = mysql_query($account_query, $connection) or die("Error getting account data: [" . mysql_error() . "]");
$account_row = mysql_fetch_array($account_result);
$account_name = $account_row["name"];
$account_prestige = $account_row["prestige"];
$account_rank = $account_row["rank"];
$account_kills = $account_row["kills"];

horray for coding technology! time to dance!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/509542.html

Date: 11/20/06 (Open Source)    Keywords: technology, asp, linux, microsoft

Users are in an uproar but, according to Groklaw, the threat is real, at least in regards those Linux users who also use Microsoft's .Net. Such enterprises will only be able to use the "open source" aspects of Microsoft's technology if they also switch to SUSE.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/51728130/

Date: 11/21/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: technology

Read through this and found it to be, not so much authoritative, but very informative on the dark magic that is .htaccess and figured I'd share it with this community.

http://www.bloghash.com/2006/11/beginners-guide-to-htaccess-file-with-examples/

Found in one of the top lists in digg.com under technology.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/371590.html

Date: 12/12/06 (Security)    Keywords: technology

Jeffrey Manber explains technology behind Yuzoz, whose name itself was generated using cosmic events such as solar wind.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6142935.html

Date: 12/15/06 (IT Management)    Keywords: technology

U.K. companies have downgraded their technology-spending plans for 2007, but huge differences exist between sectors.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9589_22-6144054.html