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RSS objectsVirtual worlds under siege from cyber crime
News The paper says: "Typically, when a gaming account is compromised, attackers will convert the objects they steal into virtual currency - and then convert the virtual currency into real money. The in-game economies of virtual worlds are being... [28 Aug 2008]
Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday' targets six critical flaws
News The vulnerabilities, as detailed in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-045, relate to HTML objects memory corruption, HTML component handling and uninitialised memory corruption. Microsoft has released six critical patches for August's 'Patch Tuesday... [13 Aug 2008]
Seeing the Big Picture: A Corporate Guide to Better Decisions through IT
White Paper This is particularly worrisome given the lack of confidence in data available to decision makers: a 2007 report conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and commissioned by Business Objects found that nine out of ten corporate executives... [12 Aug 2008]
Rushed? Work Less. Deliver More.
White Paper Give business users the ability to view and update reports from anywhere. As well as to interact with them intuitively. You'll not only have happier end users, but you'll be happier too. Fewer reports to create. [08 Aug 2008]
Adaptive Load Balancing for DHT Lookups
White Paper The main characteristic is to associate nodes (peers) with objects (keys) and to construct distributed routing structures to support efficient location. These approaches partially consider the load problem by balancing storage of objects without... [04 Aug 2008]
Managing Distributed Collaboration in a Peer-to-Peer Network
White Paper Shared mutable information objects called u-forms provide an attractive foundation on which to build collaborative systems. As one scales up such systems from small fully-connected workgroups to large, highly distributed, and partially disconnected... [04 Aug 2008]
Elements of a Scalable Network File System Protocol
White Paper The key to this success is that the protocols present data objects at a level of abstraction at which there is a broad common view among the multiple competing computing platforms: files and directories make sense in many operating systems. [04 Aug 2008]
Rich Client Interfaces: Breaking Free From the Browser
White Paper Through years of practical development and the constant desire to be unique, Pathfinder has constructed many creative and interesting interface objects that defy the basic functionality provided by browsers. [04 Aug 2008]
A QoS Mapping Rule Builder
White Paper In the context of Quality-Driven Delivery (QDD) referring to the ability of a system to deliver data objects while considering the end-users expectations, all components of a distributed multimedia system have to contribute to satisfy users... [04 Aug 2008]
Ruby on Rails: Everyone's Talking About It - Are You?
White Paper These principals save an incredible amount of programming time and effort in initializing and maintaining all of the different objects and instances required in traditional development environments. Ruby on Rails, often referred to as Rails, is an... [04 Aug 2008]
Live From Redmond: Data-Binding, Business Objects and Data Sources [Updated]
White Paper The presenter of this webcast demonstrate how to create an n-tier Silverlight application, focusing on the UI and business layers and showing how Expression Blend can facilitate drag-and-drop data-binding without hiding the underlying logic. [04 Aug 2008]
A QoS Framework for Interactive 3D Applications
White Paper This paper presents a QoS (Quality of Service) framework for interactive 3D applications, in which the QoS management relies on high-level QoS parameters of quality scalable 3D objects, which are transmitted from the service provider to the user... [04 Aug 2008]
Web-Service-Based, Dynamic and Collaborative E-learning
White Paper In this paper a Learning Content Definition Model is used to model distributed and sharable learning resources as content objects. Distributed and sharable software systems/components for supporting e-learning are modeled as software objects. [04 Aug 2008]
Replication Under Scalable Hashing: A Family of Algorithms for Scalable Decentralized Data Distribution
White Paper The paper has developed a family of decentralized algorithms, RUSH (Replication Under Scalable Hashing), that maps replicated objects to a scalable collection of storage servers or disks. RUSH algorithms distribute objects to servers according to... [04 Aug 2008]
Security Management Through Overloading Views
White Paper After inserting the overloading view on top of the given population of objects all references to the objects come via the view. Views allow one to add such new semantic to all the operations that can be performed on the objects. [04 Aug 2008]
