In honour [sic] of International Data Privacy Day today, 28th January 2010, Google has published their own guidlines on privacy. The timing of this is quite intriguing following the recent hacking attack, supposedly orchestrated by the Chinese authorities, on Google, Yahoo, Adobe and some 20 other major international corporations; whilst there is also the ongoing concern from many quarters about Google is too dominant in many aspects of our online lives.
Tags: Adobe, Ethics, Google, Identity management, Information privacy, law, Privacy, world wide web, Yahoo
Reasons why people working with computers tend to have lots of free time…
Tags: 3D artist, Asides, computer, Computer Worker, free time, hacker, IT Consultant, Programmer, sysadmin, system administrator, web developer, workers
PCI DSS stands for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, and is a worldwide security standard assembled by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC). The PCI security standards are technical and operational requirements that were created to help organizations that process card payments prevent credit card fraud, hacking and various other security vulnerabilities and threats. The standards apply to all organizations that store, process or transmit cardholder data – with guidance for software developers and manufacturers of applications and devices used in those transactions. A company processing, storing, or transmitting cardholder data must be PCI DSS compliant.
Tags: Adobe ColdFusion, American Express, anti-virus software, Applications, architecture, Authentication, BlueDragon, Code, ColdFusion, ColdFusion Administrator, company processing, compliance, control measures, Data Security Standard, database server, Databases, Discover Financial Services, encryption, firewall, HTTP, Java, JCB International, Manitoba, Mastercard Worldwide, Payment Card Industry, Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council, payment card processing, Payment Processors, PCI DSS, public networks, Railo, raw processing, RDBMS, regulations, secure, secure systems, security, Security Standards Council, security systems, Server Side, software developers, software releases, SQL, SSC, the Council, Visa, Visa Inc ., web application, web application developers, web applications, web code, Web Servers
Adobe recently announced, in conjunction with Amazon, that they would bring LiveCycle to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
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Crossed between quasar and a game of tag, QR-kill is the new phenomenon spreading around the mobile community. Utilising high-end mobile phones like the Nokia N95 and Applie iPhone and 2-dimensional barcodes called QR-codes, this game is best played in public places like shopping centres or department stores for added amusement.
Tags: 2d, 3d, Apple, barcode, extra devices, games, Gaming, iphone, Mobile, mobile phones, mobile tagging, Nokia, Nokia N95, QR-kill, QRcode, SMS
With the advent Google Chrome there has been a lot of media coverage regarding the browser’s uptake and how it will compete with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. This is where the User Agent becomes most valuable.
Tags: Apple, Browsers, Chrome, Chrome's address bar, encryption, Firefox, Google, Google Chrome, Google Inc., HTTP, HyperText Transfer Protocol, Internet Explorer, Internet users, Microsoft, Microsoft Vista, Microsoft Windows, mobile phones, Mozilla, Official Build Google Inc., Opera, operating system, Safari, United States, url, User Agent, web crawlers, Web Standards era, webmaster, windowing system, Windows NT, X11
Last weekend I attended Barcamp Brighton 3. For the uninitiated like me, a BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.
Tags: 1d, 2d, Aral Balkan, Barcamp, barcodes, Brighton, camera, datamatrix, iphone, Jeremy Keith, Jerome Ribot, macro, Mark Wudden, maxicode, Miscellaneous, Mobile, mobile tagging, open source technologies, phone, presentation, QRcode, Rob Douglas, social protocols, Tantek Celik, web applications, web-gliterati
On 1st September 2008 Google launched a new opensource browser project named Chrome.
Tags: Adobe, Adobe AIR, browser, gears, Google, Google Chrome, Google Gears, HTML, Internet Explorer, JavaScript, Mozilla Prism, Safari, Virtual Machine, Web apps, Webkit
This weeks Computer Weekly magazine’s Downtime section has an interesting story: In what is likely to be better news for men than women, Microsoft’s latest browser, Internet Explorer 8, boasts a feature that allows users to hide the trail of their web browsing.
Tags: advertisers, adverts, Browsers, Computer Weekly, content network, Google, IE8, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft, online advertisers, revenue, web browsing
You’re a YouTube addict with a serious amount of uncut video footage that you want to upload. If you want to transform that footage into an Oscar winning video clip that will be viewed millions of times, you’ll need to do a little editing. But buying editing tools isn’t a cheap pasttime.
Tags: automatic software updates, Content, cuts, editor, editors, Eyespot, facebook, free media sets, fully featured editor, Google, Internet, JumpCut, Motionbox, National Basketball Association, online, online applications, online communities, online editor, online video services, Oscar, Photobucket, The Web, Tools, video, Web 2.0, white label editor, Yahoo, YouTube