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Beau Amber is taking over Flashforward

This is pretty big news. Flashforward, one of the biggest events and longest running Flash conferences out there has a new owner. Lynda Weinman is turning over the reigns to Beau Amber of Metaliq. Beau has been a big presence in the Flash world for a long time so he's...

Tags: Conference, Beau Amber, Flashforward, Beau, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-03-11

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diversITy: can being gay hold your career back?

Edit: Just a couple of grammatical tweaks. This series of entries, called diversITy, continues from the previous topic, all concerning the diversity of people within the IT industry. This time, I'd like to put forward: sexual orientation in the workplace, can it set you back? ...

Tags: Workplace, Career, Diversity, U.K., IT Industry, LGBT, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-23

Debunking yet another bogus malware study

Here we go again, with yet another round of bogus reporting about the extent of malware infections in the United States. This morning I read a report by Nick Farrell of The Inquirer, which was accompanied by the screamer headline One in Four US computers infected. It links in turn to a much longer...

Tags: Adware, OECD, Malware, Computer, Badware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Viruses And Worms, Productivity, Security, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Microsoft confirms man-in-the-middle WPAD vulnerability

Following the public release of a serious flaw in the way Windows resolves hostnames that do not include a fully-qualified domain name FQDN, Microsoft has issued a security advisory to acknowledge the issue and offer pre-patch workarounds. Redmond's advisory comes more than two weeks after hacker Beau...

Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Domain, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Domain Names, Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-12-03

Virtual robots fooled by visual illusions

Researchers at University College London UCL have written a computer program using neural networks which are duped by optical illusions the same way as we do. Their virtual robots, which were trained to 'see' like us, could help to understand why we fall for optical illusions. This might also be...

Tags: Brain, Robot, Illusion, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-09-30

Dx3 - A rock star Rich Internet Application conference

I just got an email about the Dx3 conference, something Ive been following for a while. It now looks like its starting to take shape, so I wanted to make sure everyone knows about it. Dx3 stands for Design, Develop, and Deploy and it looks like its going to be...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Adobe, Flex, Experience, Flash, Apollo, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Design, Expression Studio, DX3

Blog posts 2007-02-05

Novell seeks to boost Linux graphics

Novell seeks to boost Linux graphicsOpen source continues to deliver"That split, more than the lack of eye candy, is a hurdle to Linux desktops becoming more popular, Cherry said."I struggle with whether I should use GNOME or KDE. There aspects of both I like and both I hate," the analyst...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Desktops, open source, Linux, Novell Inc., graphics, Linux graphic

Discussion threads 2006-02-06

Bees are definitively very clever insects

Two months ago, I told you that bees could be trained to find land mines. Now, researchers from University College London UCL have shown that bees are able to solve complicated color puzzles. In their study, bees were trained to find artificial flowers containing a nectar reward and colored in...

Tags: bee

Blog posts 2005-11-02