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News and Events for Oct 5th, 2007 |
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Web
Directions South
Featuring 30 leading experts, including a dozen international
stars of the web industry, across three tracks, Web Directions
focusses on the key technology and business issues of Web
2.0, including
Designing and Developing for the Mobile Web
Mobile Business
Trends and development in web technologies and standards
Designing and nurturing online communities
Web Design 2.0
Rich internet Applications, with Flash and Ajax
Building and managing great teams
Developing Mashups and Webapps
Enterprise 2.0 - Wikis, RSS and Web 2.0 in the enterprise
Intellectual property and the web
Web Startups
Accessibility and usability in a Web Apps world
Real World Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Web Directions speakers include
Web Technology pioneer and co-inventor of CSS, Bert Boss from
the W3C
Flickr designer and developer George Oates
Head of Google Engineering Australia, Alan Noble
Web Design Gurus Andy Clarke, and Justin French
Ajax and Flash expert Jon Boutelle, and Ajax wunderkind Aaron
Gustafson
Wikipedia and Wikia's Angela Beesley
and many more from companies such as Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft,
Atlassian, Optus and News Interactive.
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Say hello to web standards
There's something new at Apple's online store: web standards
and accessibility.
Apple.com has never lacked for panache. It has always looked
more stylish, more elegant, more beautifully designed than
most business sites. The site's combination of utility, seduction,
and understated beauty is practically unique—in keeping with
the company's primary point of product differentiation.
But while its beauty and usability have always run ahead of
the pack, its underlying source code has not always kept pace.
Now the online Apple Store's inside is as beautiful as its
exterior—and as far ahead of the mainstream in web development
as a company like Apple needs to be.
One day, all sites will be built like this. View Source for
an inspiring glimpse of how semantic and accessible even a
grid-based, image-intensive, pixel-perfect site can be.
And next time your boss, client, or IT director annoyingly
proclaims that you can't have great looks and good markup,
point them at store.apple.com. Who knows? They might buy you
an iPhone or MacBook as a token of thanks. |
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In the latest round of the search-index size contest,
Google unveiled an updated index it said is more than three
times larger than that of any of its search engine competitors.
We're celebrating our seventh birthday... We had a pretty
strong year," Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in
a phone interview, as he listed the launch of new products
including Google Talk, Google Earth, Google Video and Google
Desktop Search. "And we've sort of been struggling here with
respect to the index.
It has always been much larger than the others." "We're announcing
tonight that in terms of unduplicated pages our index is now
three times larger than any other search engine," he said,
without saying how many pages are in the index. Google will
stop providing on its search page a quantity of pages indexed,
which previously was listed as 8 billion, "because people
don't necessarily agree on how to count it," Schmidt said.
In addition, the company will encourage users to test out
the search engines using a specialized query to see which
provides the most results, he said. "We want end users to
derive the number to their satisfaction. They will discover
that ours is larger," he said.
In a random test, using the search terms "Joe Schmoe" and
"pickles," Google returned 451 results, Yahoo returned 62
results, MSN returned 60 results and Ask Jeeves returned 54
results. Google took exception when Yahoo last month claimed
that at more than 20 billion, its index was larger than Google's.
Search Engine Watch Editor Danny Sullivan has argued that
relevancy matters most, and has urged the search engines to
come together to develop a uniform way to measure relevancy.
"Who's biggest really doesn't matter, as I and others have
written so many times before," he wrote in a blog after Yahoo's
announcement last month. Asked to respond to Sullivan's comment
that relevance trumps size, Schmidt said: "You get better
relevancy and more comprehensive news with a larger index."
"We congratulate Google on removing the index size number
from its home page and for recognizing it is a meaningless
number," Yahoo said in a statement. "As we've said in the
past, what matters is that consumers find what they are looking
for, and we invite Google users to compare their results to
Yahoo search at http://search.yahoo.com." |
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Microsoft Office PerformancePoint
Server 2007 Extends Microsoft's Business Intelligence Solution
REDMOND, Wash. — Sept, 2007 — As part
of its commitment to providing industry-leading business intelligence
solutions, Microsoft Corp. has launched Microsoft® Office
PerformancePoint™ Server 2007, an application that enables
companies to drive performance through monitoring, analyzing
and planning their business using one integrated solution.
Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) allows more people at
all levels of an organization to make better decisions, and
has the vision of reaching every decision-maker and adding
value to every decision. With Office PerformancePoint Server
2007, Microsoft is building on its existing BI solution to
enable companies to drive strategy development, alignment
and accountability across the entire organization.
"First we built a highly scalable BI platform, then we built
BI tools with an unparalleled ease of use. Today we are extending
customer value by bringing an integrated performance management
application to market," said Chris Caren, general manager
of Office Business Applications at Microsoft. "Our goal as
a leading BI provider is to deliver the most complete and
integrated BI product line with unparalleled ease of use,
and this matches what customers have been waiting for."
Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 takes the same approach
as the rest of the Microsoft Business Intelligence product
line — Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 is simple to use
because of the familiar look and feel of the Microsoft Office
interface, and it puts intelligence right where people work
and collaborate.
Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 is built to meet the functional
and performance requirements of a large enterprise, but its
competitive pricing allows companies of all sizes to use the
application broadly throughout the organization. The application
is very flexible, allowing businesspeople to build and manage
plans, workflows and rules, while IT centrally controls security
and information. |
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Adobe
Offers Complete Line of Products for Every Level
Adobe offers video products that meet the needs of every individual:
Adobe Premiere Elements for the video enthusiast who wants
to create a movie in just 15 minutes and Adobe Premiere Pro
for the professional or advanced amateur videographer. Adobe
is also pioneering new ways to deliver its industry leading
video technologies with Premiere Express, a video remix and
editing tool available on popular Web sites such as MTV.com,
Photobucket and YouTube.
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Mozilla
Web browsers are potentially more vulnerable to attack than
Microsoft's Internet Explorer, according to a Symantec report.
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But the report, released Monday, also found that hackers are
still focusing their efforts on IE. The open-source Mozilla
Foundation browsers, such as the popular Firefox, have typically
been seen as more secure than IE, which has suffered many security
problems in the past. Mitchell Baker, president of the foundation,
said earlier this year that its browsers were fundamentally
more secure than IE. She also predicted that Mozilla Foundation
browsers would not face as many problems as IE, even as their
market share grows.
Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report Volume VIII contains
data for the first six months of this year that may contradict
this perception. According to the report, 25 vendor-confirmed
vulnerabilities were disclosed for the Mozilla browsers during
the first half of 2005, "the most of any browser studied," the
report's authors stated. Eighteen of these flaws were classified
as high severity. "During the same period, 13 vendor-confirmed
vulnerabilities were disclosed for IE, eight of which were high
severity," the report noted.
The average severity rating of the vulnerabilities associated
with both IE and Mozilla browsers in this period was classified
as "high", which Symantec defined as "resulting in a compromise
of the entire system if exploited." The Mozilla Foundation did
not immediately respond to requests for comment. Symantec reported
that the gap between vulnerabilities being reported and exploit
code being released has dropped to six days on average.
However, it's not clear from the report how quickly Microsoft
and Mozilla released patches for their respective vulnerabilities,
or how many of the vulnerabilities were targeted by hackers,
though Microsoft generally releases patches only on a monthly
basis. Symantec admitted that "at the time of writing, no widespread
exploitation of any browser except Microsoft Internet Explorer
has occurred," but added that it "expects this to change as
alternative browsers become increasingly widely deployed."
There is one caveat: Symantec counts only those security flaws
that have been confirmed by the vendor. According to security
monitoring company Secunia, there are 19 security issues that
Microsoft still has to deal with for Internet Explorer, while
there are only three for Firefox. The report also highlighted
a trend away from the focus of security being on "servers, firewalls,
and other systems with external exposure." Instead, "client-side
systems--primarily end-user systems--(are) becoming increasingly
prominent targets of malicious activity."
Web browser vulnerabilities are becoming a preferred entry point
into systems, the report stated. It also highlighted the trend
of hackers operating for financial gain rather than recognition,
increased potential exposure of confidential information, and
a "dramatic increase in malicious code variants". |
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