As the Internet continues to evolve, Semantic Web technologies are beginning to emerge, but widespread adoption is likely to still be two to three years out.
<b>Policy Fugue:</b> "Comcast CEO Brian Roberts headed back to Capitol Hill on Thursday to defend his company's proposed merger with NBC Universal, offering what by now are familiar assurances that the combined company won't use its market power to bully smaller cable competitors, raise prices for consumers or restrict access to Internet video."
<b>Torrent Freak:</b> "The Copyright (Infringement File Sharing) Amendment Bill, which allows for large fines and six month Internet suspensions, has just received its first reading in Parliament, to unanimous support."
<b>Linux Planet:</b> ""The iPhone vision of the mobile Internet’s future omits controversy, sex, and freedom, but includes strict limits on who can know what and who can say what," he wrote. "It's a sterile, Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers.""
This week's security warning from Microsoft for a zero-day hole in Internet Explorer has opened the door for a hacker to create a working model of how to exploit the vulnerability.
The Free/Open Source software world offers great thundering herds of excellent security software; Cynthia Harvey presents a sampling of 50 FOSS applications for everything from anti-malware to forensics to Internet gateways to networking monitoring, and then some.
In the latest edition of its monthly security ritual, Microsoft patches two bugs, both deemed "important," and issued an advisory about a flaw recently discovered in the Internet Explorer browser.
<b>Linx Pro Magazine:</b> "Ask any knowledgeable mobile user, and she will tell you that the best way to securely access the Internet in public places is through a VPN (virtual private network) connection. So if you enjoy sipping coffee at a local cafe while checking email and browsing the Web, a secure VPN connection is a good solution..."
Opinion: Are you ready for the age of mobile, cloud-based workers? Columnist Jeff Vance argues they'll be every bit as disruptive, and important, as the arrival of the Internet itself.
As more people, including etailers involved with Internet marketing opportunities, flock to social networking sites, the more they need to be aware of cyber crime – and learn to avoid being scammed.
As more people, including etailers involved with Internet marketing opportunities, flock to social networking sites, the more they need to be aware of cyber crime – and learn to avoid being scammed.
As more people, including etailers involved with Internet marketing opportunities, flock to social networking sites, the more they need to be aware of cyber crime – and learn to avoid being scammed.
<b>10 Things:</b> "Legislation that affects the use of Internet-connected computers is springing up everywhere at the local, state and federal levels. You might be violating one of them without even knowing."
Software giant makes the unusual step of releasing an "out-of-band" security fix for a flaw in versions 6 and 7 of Internet Explorer, deeming the vulnerability serious enough that it had to act before the next Patch Tuesday.
<b>Wired:</b> "Take Ghana, West Africa, for example. If you are a school in a small village with satellite internet and solar power, what device would be best for you? The power-sucking, data-heavy iPad, or the Kindle..."
<b>Tech Drive-In:</b> "Miro 3 is released! For starters, Miro is widely popular open source internet television application. Miro can automatically download videos from RSS-based channels, manage them and play them."
<b>Mass High Tech: </b>"Karen Tegan Padir is an evangelist. Her gospel is open source software, and she recently changed denominations when she left Sun Microsystems Inc., where she was in charge of running the departments that determined the future of such ubiquitous Internet software as Java and MySQL."
Microsoft proposes throwing malware-infected PCs into quarantine and denying them Internet access. The company also announces availability for its new identity management product.
Network security software vendor SonicWall is warning Internet users that it's seeing a dramatic increase in new phishing scams related to the upcoming IRS tax filing deadline.
<b>Packt:</b> "In this article by Bethany Hiitola, author of Getting started with Audacity 1.3, we will learn all the details of using third-party internet telephony software such as Skype to record telephone interviews. We will also cover how to set up a timed recording."
<b>Serverwatch:</b> "The Apache HTTP Web Server is the most widely deployed Web server on the Internet today, which means that vulnerabilities in the open source server can have a devastating impact. That also makes security updates like the new 2.2.15 release critical, since it addresses several security vulnerabilities in Apache's flagship HTTP Web server."
With Internet Explorer 9 entering Platform Preview release, Sean Michael Kerner compares Microsoft's developer preview philosophy versus that of Mozilla, and comes up with a hands-down winner.