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More and more people own mobile phones and advertisers have gotten increasingly aggressive about tapping into the mobile phone market. If you have problems with ads showing up in your pulldown notification tray or some mysterious star, circle, or plus icon in the corner of your notification bar, you might have an app on your device that pushes ads. Ad networks collect information that … [Read more...]
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where a full-time staff, Member organizations and the public work together to develop Web Standards. Led by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and CEO Jeffrey Jaffe, W3C's mission is to lead the Web to its full potential. The staff at W3C is made up of 65 people working from locations across the world. W3C is hosted by the … [Read more...]
An annual survey conducted by a consultancy group known as Gabriel Consulting points to the fact that virtualization is not very important to Unix customers. This survey was called "Is Commercial Unix Relevant in the Midmarket.” There were nine factors that were taken into consideration for the survey, according to a ZDNet.com report. These nine factors are the deciding factors during the … [Read more...]
According to a recent BGR.com report, only 27% of smartphone owners in the U.S. owns an iPhone, while 47% of them owned Android devices. The research also found that less than half the people researched their phones before purchase and their decision was mostly based on Google's reputation. This amounts to Android having almost twice the market share as compared to Google. The most popular brand … [Read more...]
According to Dice.com, a recruitment agency, hiring managers are looking for employees who are well versed in Java. The company conducted a survey comprising 1,200 hiring managers in the tech sector, who all stated the same, reports Dice.com. Demand for Java Developers The demand for computer professionals who are well versed in Java has been on the rise, especially in the past two years. … [Read more...]
At the Oracle Open World in 2011, it was announced that Oracle fusion applications will soon be available to the general public. These applications are meant to be the ERP solution for the next generation and will soon take place of the current Oracle E Business Suite, Siebel, PeopleSoft and other products that were developed or acquired by Oracle in the past. This suite has been in development … [Read more...]
The Japanese defense ministry has been closely working with an IT company called Fujitsu, to develop a defensive computer virus. This particular virus will be able to trace the path of any cyber attack and then attack at the source. The most important thing to know about this virus is that while going for the source computer, the virus will also shut down every other system in the path. These two … [Read more...]
Oracle recently updated the database firewall to facilitate better security for enterprises. According to an EWeek.com report, Oracle's new update offers improved security for MySQL databases and helps block malicious inside attacks and SQL injections, and prevents access to sensitive data. MySQL initially joined the product portfolio of Oracle after the software giant sealed a $7.4 billion … [Read more...]
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