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TrackVia: Powerful Search Tool for All the Nooks and Crannies

Search and databases often have troubled relationships. Web-based search utilities have become essential business tools. The database is the lifeblood of many a business' record-keeping system. Both are vital -- just don't try to put the two together or integrate spreadsheets and other documents with them ...

Why So Many Java Mugs?

Web developers have many options for the servlet containers they use to host Java apps. Included in these choices are both classic proprietary and a host of open source containers. For the typical Java application developer, the container that holds one or more Java applications together is fairly transparent ...

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System Mechanic 8.0: Smooth Layout, Rough Start

Putting Iolo Technologies' System Mechanic 8.0 throughits paces was a long-overdue reunion with an old friend of sorts. Ihad used a much earlier version when it was a different label yearsago. I had forgotten how adept the program's design was even back thenat rooting out the hundreds of glitches and clutter that fall into thedeep recesses of the Windows operating system...

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Physicist Ian Appelbaum Puts New Spin on Semiconductors

University of Delaware's Dr. Ian Appelbaum is looking to "spin" hisresearch on the magnetic properties of electrons to get moreelectronic enhancements from semiconductors ...

The Shift to SOA: Repurposing Priceless Business Logic

"SOA transition" is buzz term growing in popularity among IT managers, especially when they meet with corporate boardroom residents. Businesses are transitioning into service-oriented architecture by tapping into the increasing number of SOA products software makers are creating to meet this new interest ...

Why Do Bad Things Happen to PCI-Compliant Companies?

Caution: Just because your company has a payment card industry (PCI)compliance certificate, don't assume your data is perfectly safe and secure. Youcan still suffer a breach ...

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PC Fixer Lassos Customers the Old Fashioned Way: Free Services

Getting reliable and reasonably priced tech support for an ailing computer is time-consuming and frustrating. PC users at home, school and work face malfunctions caused by human error, software failure and hardware configuration glitches ...

Can Merb Knock Ruby Off Its Rails?

Engine Yard, a software developer of clouddeployment and open source tools for Ruby on Rails applications, lastweek released an open source framework for building fast, high-performance Ruby applications. Called "Merb," the programming tool issimilar to Ruby on Rails ...

The Untapped Open Source Online Gaming Opportunity

Open source software is often an unsung hero in the online gaming universe. Game engines are complex applications with core functionalities provided by numerous modules. These include arendering engine for 2-D or 3-D graphics and a physics engine or collision detection and response calculator. In addition, game developers have to provide for sound, scripting, animation, artificial intelligence, networking, streaming, memory management, threading and a scene graph...

Cisco Stirs Up AXP Interest With Dev Contest

Cisco Systems announced on Tuesday the extension of its Application Extension Platform (AXP) as well as a contest for developers to provide new applications ...

AppDeploy Community Launches Free Windows Installer Tool

AppDeploy, an online community for both systemsmanagement professionals and application and computer administrators has released a free software tool called "AppDeployRepackager." The tool is the industry's first free applicationdedicated to the complex task of Windows Installer repackaging, according to the company ...

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RealDVD Works Great – If You Can Get It

RealNetworks released its controversial RealDVD movie ripping application last week but within days removed the program from its Web site due to a legal feud with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) ...

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ubExact Gives Search a Little More Personality

Google and Yahoo are so well established in my daily Internet search routine that I wasn't expecting to find anything new with a beta engine from a start-up search company. But ubExact had more than one pleasant surprise in how it lets users search ...

Survey Says: Windows and Open Source Play Well Together

Open source adoption is growing rapidly, but adopters in U.S. arelagging behind European enthusiasm, according to software provider OpenLogic ...

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Open Source to Go

The age of mobile computing is upon us. Small form-factor laptops,even smaller netbooks and smartphones keep us continuouslyconnected with colleagues, family, friends and our bosses around theclock ...

Linux Where You’d Least Expect It

OK. You've heard of Linux. It's another operating system for acomputer. But why use it when you can choose between Windows and Macs?Unless you run business-class servers, Linux isn't really somethingconsumers really need to hear about, right? ...

The New Biology of Biometrics

To a lot of computer users, the concept of biometric authentication is limited to thumb drive reader devices, eye scanners and voice pattern recognition. Such technologies still face stiff competition in most enterprise circles, where passwords and user tokens seemingly work well enough and are quicker and cheaper to deploy ...

IronPort Offers New Layer of Armor Against Invisible Web Menaces

Internet security firm IronPort Systems announced on Monday an enhanced layer of protection for its Web Security appliance S-Series with the addition of Exploit Filtering technology ...

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When Your PC’s Ailin’, Who Ya Gonna Call?

When you buy a PC, chances are darn good that the service package will be neither very convenient nor inexpensive. Most in-home or in-office service plans amount to little more than a local repair shop guy traipsing through your front door on afirst-available basis. Even carting the computer to an in-store service center does not guarantee fast or efficient service. So when PlumChoice Online PC Services offered me an opportunity to try our their remote repair program, I sheepishly accepted...

The Winds of Cyber War

The computer attacks Russia allegedly orchestrated against Georgia in Augusthave raised the cyber warfare bar to a new threat level. The cyber assaultthat accompanied Russia's armed maneuver into its former territory of Georgia escalated to an international event ...

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