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Visual Data Modeling in Rational Application Developer 6.0: New Data Model Features

whitepaper It supports three industry standard notations: IDEF1X, Information Engineering (IE or Crow's Foot), and UML (Unified Modeling Language). A data model is a plan for building a database. To be effective, it must be simple enough to communicate the...

Tags: software engineering

[17 May 2008]

Windows XP SP3 users warned over IE downgrades

News Windows XP users who install the operating system's third service pack will not be able to roll back their versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft's deployment manager for Internet Explorer 8 has warned.

Tags: sp3, xp, ie7, windows

[12 May 2008]

Windows Vista take-up crawls at snail's pace

News The proportion of users on all versions of IE fell by 10 per cent. Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system is taking a while to catch on, with just 6.3 per cent of enterprise users on the OS by the end of 2007.

Tags: microsoft, xp, firefox, ie7

[02 Apr 2008]

Google Sky gets browser app

Google Sky gets browser app

News Google has unveiled a browser version of its Google Sky application for people who don't want to download the Google Earth software. The browser version allows users to zoom in and out and pan around the celestial bodies, search for planets and...

Tags: google, photos, earth, sky

[14 Mar 2008]

Mozilla revamps Firefox 3 beta

Mozilla revamps Firefox 3 beta

News Firefox accounted for more than 17 per cent of all browsers used last month, while IE accounted for nearly 75 per cent, according to research conducted by Net Applications, a web measurement company. However, IE's share stood at more than 79 per...

Tags: mozilla, internet explorer, beta, firefox

[11 Mar 2008]

Microsoft unveils web tool betas

News Microsoft has used its MIX08 event in Las Vegas to announce beta releases of web tools including Internet Explorer 8, Silverlight 2 and Expression Studio 2 products. Along with IE8, the new versions of Silverlight and Expression Studio are targeted...

Tags: microsoft, beta, silverlight, ie

[09 Mar 2008]

Mac OS X Panther Hacks: Browse Different

whitepaper Chances are, the user is well and truly settled in to Apple's Safari web browser, having jumped ship from the now-stalled Internet Explorer (IE) for Mac the user found so impressive back in OS 9. IE was good for its time - in many ways, even better...

Tags: web browsers, firefox, browser, apple

[25 Oct 2007]

Security and Usability: Privacy Analysis for the Casual User With Bugnosis

whitepaper But these two IE add-ons are concerned with different parts of the web privacy question. Bugnosis is a Privacy Analysis Tool for the Typical end user. Like Privacy Bird , Bugnosis is a benevolent snoop: it taps into the user's web browser so that...

Tags: privacy issues, privacy, bird, tool

[17 Oct 2007]

Dear silicon.com... McInternet, FON in the UK, safety first, e-fraud...

Comment Microsoft unchains IE 7 for XP users IE 7 vs IE 6 McWi-fi McDonald's: 'Do you want free wi-fi with that? The McD's at the top of the Champs-Élysées has been doing this for years and is very useful if you are waiting for the airport bus.

Tags: bt, wi-fi, fon

[11 Oct 2007]

Switching to Firefox

whitepaper Firefox is more secure than IE out of the box, Firefox implements security features more intelligently than IE, and Firefox fixes security issues faster than IE. Every web browser warns users if they are entering or leaving a secure, SSL-encrypted...

Tags: web browsers, browser, encrypted, form

[10 Oct 2007]

Ajax Hacks: Detect Browser Compatibility With the Request Object

whitepaper However, continuing with the tradition established by IE 5.0, recent vintages of Internet Explorer implement the software as an ActiveX object named Microsoft.XMLHTTP or Msxml2. Browser compatibility is an important consideration.

Tags: web browsers, named, object, ajax

[10 Oct 2007]

Dynamic HTML: Style Sheet Property Reference

whitepaper This table tells at a glance the version of Internet Explorer (IE), pre-Mozilla Netscape Navigator (NN), Mozilla (Moz), Apple Safari (Saf), Opera (starting from version 7), and W3C CSS specification in which the term was first introduced.

Tags: html, style, term, css

[10 Oct 2007]

Microsoft unchains IE 7 for XP users

News IE 7 programme manager, Steve Reynolds, wrote in a blog post: "With today's 'Installation and Availability Update', Internet Explorer 7 installation will no longer require Windows Genuine Advantage validation and will be available to all Windows...

Tags: ie 7, firefox, wga, microsoft

[09 Oct 2007]

Dear silicon.com... modern malware, Vista sales, Bluetooth ads...

Comment There is now sufficient free or cheap anti-intrusion software (anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewalls), and safer browsers than IE, that it can only be a lack of education that allows malware to propagate.

[04 Oct 2007]

A First Look at IE 7

whitepaper Beta 1 of IE 7 comes in two flavors - a stand-alone version for Windows XP SP2, and a built-in version for Windows Vista Beta 1. This paper takes the reader through the numerous new features and enhancements in IE 7.

Tags: vista, windows vista, beta, reader

[13 Sep 2007]

A First Look at IE 7

whitepaper Beta 1 of IE 7 comes in two flavors - a stand-alone version for Windows XP SP2, and a built-in version for Windows Vista Beta 1. This paper takes the reader through the numerous new features and enhancements in IE 7.

Tags: vista, windows vista, beta, enhancements

[13 Sep 2007]

Secure Surfing: Understanding the Security Risks of Web Browser Deployments

whitepaper Internet Explorer (IE) was chosen for its ubiquity. The Internet has quickly become an indispensable tool for corporate users. But over the past few years, a constant stream of vulnerabilities with browsers has kept companies in a state of...

Tags: browsers, vulnerabilities, continuous, cross

[07 Aug 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 03.08.07

Round-Up IE won definitively and by the time version 5 was released four years later it had become the world's most popular browser. It could be argued that IE has driven the phenomenal industry-wide uptake of the World Wide Web Consortium's standards by...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[03 Aug 2007]

IE 'most influential tech product for 25 years'

News By the time IE version 5 was released in 1999, it had become the world's most popular browser. The most influential technology product of the past 25 years is Microsoft's oft-derided web browser, Internet Explorer, according to a survey of IT...

Tags: microsoft, technology, internet explorer

[01 Aug 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Of global warming and pirates

Comment That is, they go from a satisfactory service level to a perceived failed state (ie irritatingly slow) in a matter of a few extra customers. Written on BA2487 flying from Barcelona to London, and dispatched to silicon.com from an open corporate...

Tags: peter cochrane, climate change

[26 Jul 2007]

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