Monthly Archives: March 2007
JSF Enables AJAX with No JavaScript
LAS VEGAS—JavaServer Faces can be used to develop Asynchronous JavaScript and XML applications with no JavaScript coding, according to JSF experts.
In a session at...
Tool Turns Any JavaScript-Enabled Browser into a Malicious Drone
A new tool too dangerous to give away can turn any PC—Windows, Mac, Linux—or any device with a browser into a site attacker.
The tool,...
Developers: Expect New Major Language Within Five Years
LAS VEGAS—A group of software gurus gathered at TheServerSide Java Symposium here to discuss the future of programming, saying we should expect to see...
eWEEK Radar for Week of March 26, 2007
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Linux Kernel to Add VMI
The next stable update to the Linux kernel, Version 2.6.21, is slated to include a new feature submitted by VMware called VMI.Virtualized operating system...
Virtual Irons Server Virtualization Is Ironclad
Virtual Iron Softwares Virtual Iron builds on the Xen hypervisor and other open-source components to form an effective virtualization solution with a price tag...
Xen Xpansion: Ready for Prime Time
In the roughly four years since a group of Cambridge University researchers delivered the paper "Xen and the Art of Virtualization" at the ACM...
Trend Micro Moves Security into the Cloud
Trend Micro officials hope to change the forecast for Web-based security threats with its new in-the-cloud Web site reputation technology.The technology is part of...
Novell Defends Microsoft Deal
SALT LAKE CITY—Novell took the unusual step at its annual BrainShare conference here of holding a "fireside chat" between its own Chief Technology Officer...
Microsoft ‘Fesses Up to Pretexting Goofs by Xbox Agents
After having listened to audiotapes that execs found "painful," Microsoft has owned up to the fact that some of its Xbox Live support center...