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SmartDraw in Video Game Design: Creating UML Diagrams in Video Game Development

Dave Wagner is Engine & Tools Director for Sammy Studios, Inc., an interactive entertainment company that creates and distributes video games. Many of the company's programmers were using a popular diagramming tool to create UML diagrams for video game development. They were actually preparing to standardize with one of SmartDraw's...

Tags: Video Game, SmartDraw.com, Video, Dave Wagner, Games, UML, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Marketing

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News to know: Yahoo; VMware; Apple; DNS vulnerability

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug Dancho Danchev: Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, DNS, Yahoo! Inc., Vulnerability, Dana Blankenhorn, Health Care, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., App Store, Banking, Vertical Industries, Domain Names, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Human Resources

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Open Source VoIP: Asterisk or FreeSwitch?

When the time came for a new PBX, Brian Snipes chose to do something a bit unconventional. The IT manager at law firm Hare, Wynn, Newell, and Newton LLP didn't purchase a commercial PBX, nor did he settle on the open source market leader,...

Tags: Phone, PBX, Attorney, FreeSwitch, Asterisk, Telephony, VOIP, Open Source, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Telecommunications, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle

On July 7, the day before the release of the patch for the now infamous DNS design flaw, hacker Dan Kaminsky with the help of Black Hat conference organizers invited reporters to a press conference to "discuss the massive multivendor patch being released this Tuesday." "A synchronized...

Tags: Black Hat, DNS, Conference, Dan Kaminsky, Thomas Ptacek, Domain Names, Patches, Security, Networking, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?

  A few days ago an industry colleague and I were having a discussion about Linux and whether or not it is necessary for it to be application compatible or simply just "interoperable" with Windows from a protocol and data exchange standpoint. His view is that Linux...

Tags: Intel X86, Architecture, IBM Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Yahoo and Icahn Reach Agreement

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Yahoo has reached an agreement with Carl Icahn, the activist investor who has been waging a proxy contest to unseat the board and push Yahoo closer to a deal with Microsoft. Yahoo said Mr. Icahn will join the board himself. The board...

Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Agreement, Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-07-21

News to know: Google, Microsoft; AMD; Cybercrime arrest

Notable headlines: Earnings wrap: Larry Dignan: Can Dirk Meyer save AMD? News.com: AMD's Ruiz steps off the roller coaster Google earnings fall short; says it can thrive in down economy. Techmeme Sam Diaz: IBM: Big Blue beats expectations Microsoft: $60 billion...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IBM Corp., Keyboards, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Asset Management, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Components, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Romanian authorities arrest cybercrime suspects

Well, eight days, and a joint effort to help prevent phishing and two major arrests related to identity theft, and I feel like we've made a decent attack on the identity theft culture. Score one for the good guys for once. Just a day after reading...

Tags: Arrest, eBay Inc., Romania, Romanian, Phishing, Identity Theft, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-17

How to make Microsoft Silverlight enterprise fit

A father and son team think they've found a way to make Microsoft Silverlight  more enterprise friendly. Navot and Gai Peled who run Gizmo, Ltd., an Israeli startup, enabled their Visual WebGui environment to run any Silverlight...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., AJAX, Development Tools, Networking, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Software Development, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Sun Exec: Your 'Eco Data Center' doesn't have to cost millions. Some tips for getting there.

OK, so here's the $100 million question: Do you really want to spend that much to make your data center more green or at least more efficient? I thought not, which is why I agreed to speak with Sun Chief Technologist for EcoDC and Virtualization Services, Phillip Morris, about more...

Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs

Remote code execution through Intel CPU bugsAnother attack path: Just what we need!Now that there are millions of instances of every type of microprocessor, ANY bug in one will be in millions of systems. Relying on bugs is---um---buggy, but just checking every system you can (as a criminal,...

Tags: Processors, Intel Corp., CPU

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

Airport security part 5: Snakes on planes? Check. Marshalls on planes? Nope.

Update: TSA has commented on the CNN story on their website. From our good friend Dave Lewis from Liquidmatrix Security Digest, and memorable quotes from Samuel L. Jackson, apparently we can draw the conclusion that we have snakes on planes, but not Federal...

Tags: Airport Security, Transportation Security Administration, Dave Lewis, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-14

Some seedy developers cutting the line at the App Store

Speaking of line cutting, some Apple developers are pretty hot about an unsavory tactic that some less scrupulous developers are using to get to the front of the line in the iPhone's App Store. Apparently, many have taken to renaming their applications mostly games with spaces and other...

Tags: Developer, Apple Inc., Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-13

EPIC iFAIL

EPIC iFAILhmmm 2.0iPhone software 2.0 can import all your contacts from your SIM card. JUST FYI.RE: EPIC iFAILWell since you have a T-Mobile phone and it also has a SIM card you can copy all your contacts to your SIM card and Then all you have to do is have...

Tags: Flash memory, OK IT, EPIC iFAIL, EPIC, Apple iPhone, lunatic, SIM card, reasonable people

Discussion threads 2008-07-11

'Agility' 10 times over -- and other ways to tell it's not SOA

I got some interesting responses to my recent post, "Ten Ways to Tell It's Not SOA." Dave Linthicum added five more to the list, including: "11) If this is a change in 'paradigm' and not a change in 'architecture' ... it's not SOA." "12) If your...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-07-10

News to know: iPhone; DNS patch; Online privacy; VMware; Vista

Notable headlines: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: A Modest Privacy Proposal Richard Koman: Congress looks at next-gen ad networks Techmeme: iPhone reviews Matthew Miller: MSM Apple iPhone reviews are up and may just have saved me some cash ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, DNS, Online Privacy, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., HP iPAQ 910, 3G, Domain Names, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Dan Kaminsky breaks DNS, massive multi-vendor patch coming, details at Black Hat Vegas '08

It would seem there's a bigger story to that MS08-037 flaw that came out for Patch Tuesday today. From Dave Lewis over at the Liquid Matrix security blog: Today Dan Kaminsky released a first, as far as I can recall. A coordinated patch was released today...

Tags: Black Hat, DNS, CERT, Flaw, Mogull, Updates, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Research Shows iPhone Penetration to Grow by 164 Percent

Is the iPhone going to rule enterprise mobility? Consider this: a recent  Goldman Sachs survey of its IT executives showed that 17 percent expect to support the iPhone 3G in the next year. That's a "very strong number especially at this early stage," says Goldman telecom analyst Jason...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Mobile, Goldman Sachs & Co., Armstrong, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-07-08

AOL to offer "guaranteed" ad rates for Bebo and Facebook application developers

In an attempt to attract developers to its own ad platform, AOL announced today that it will "guarantee CPM revenues to developers on Facebook and Bebo's platforms if they opt to use its Platform-A ad technology", reports CNET's Caroline McCarthy. If the offer sounds to good to...

Tags: Bebo, Facebook, Advertisement, America Online Inc., Application Developer, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-06-30

An effective way to treat Web 2.0 vulnerabilities

I'm personally a huge fan of the Matasano blog, and have a lot of respect for their group.  I took a peek over at their blog today and noticed an article by Dave Goldsmith that deals with "Vulnerability Reporting in a Web 2.0 World Continued". In this...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Vulnerability, Defect, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-06-28