Yahoo accounts hijacked via email-based attack: Bitdefender
A new email-based attack has been hijacking Yahoo accounts, security software company Bitdefender Labs has reported.
A new email-based attack has been hijacking Yahoo accounts, security software company Bitdefender Labs has reported.
For some time Microsoft didn't offer a solution for processing big data in cloud environments. SQL Server is good for storage, but its ability to analyze terabytes of data is limited. Hadoop, which was designed for this purpose, is written in Java and was not available to .Net developers. So, Microsoft launched the Hadoop on Windows Azure service to make it possible to distribute the load and speed up big data computations.
Google this week began offering an alpha version of Google APIs Client Library for JavaScript, which provides access to HTTP-based APIs on the Web, as well as to many of Google's public APIs.
Let's begin with the good news. Google's Dart is a modern, full-featured tool designed by grabbing the best features of Java, JavaScript, and C.
Google is offering a new incremental garbage collector for its Chrome browser to "dramatically" improve the interactive performance of Web applications, the company said on Monday.
Google last month launched a Web programming language called <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/google-dart-hits-bulls-eye-web-developers-175891">Dart</a> intended to address the shortcomings of JavaScript, and some have even called it a JavaScript killer. Accommodating large programs and team-based development, Dart is object-oriented and uses a virtual machine. InfoWorld recently interviewed Lars Bak, the lead software engineer for Dart, to better understand Google's intentions for the new language.
Over drinks, one person proclaimed, "No one programs in JavaScript, they just string together jQuery calls." This statement is certainly not true, but like a hand grenade, it gets close enough to make its point.
Oracle's Project Nashorn is focused on developing a JavaScript engine for the company's JVM (Java Virtual Machine) that is intended to leverage JVM libraries and offer higher performance than the current Rhino JavaScript engine, a company official said on Wednesday.
Sencha began offering on Monday Sencha Touch, an HTML5-based mobile application development framework for touch-based devices. The company also detailed plans for an upgrade to its Ext JS JavaScript framework.
A mobile advertising company has written a JavaScript library that makes Flash advertisements viewable on devices such as the iPad, working around Apple's opposition to Adobe Systems' multimedia platform.
With rich Internet applications all the rage an open source Web framework dubbed Vaadin promises rapid Ajax development while keeping Java code on the server.
Apple's Safari browser contains a critical, unpatched bug that attackers can use to infect Windows PCs with malicious code, researchers at US-CERT and other security firms said today.
There's no doubt mobile technologies have already made a big dent on our lives.
The University of NSW Faculty of Medicine has developed an in-house student management system, dubbed eMed, which has remained cost competitive with commercial software for seven years and is now being extended into the Web 2.0 paradigm.
Twitter plans to launch a new platform that lets Web publishers display 'tweets' on their sites more broadly and easily than is possible today via the company's APIs (application programming interfaces).