Latest network applications news.
Start-up tunes facial recognition system for online dating, 11/12/07: A start-up that built a facial-recognition search engine wants to give online daters the ability to search for mates who look like celebrities, but ultimately hopes its technology will be used for larger issues, such as helping law enforcement track down child molesters.
IBM software attacks critical application security issues, 11/13/07: IBM Tuesday introduced software it says will help customers protect Web applications from attack, particularly from the nefarious “cross site request forgery” in which an attacker can fake a request to a site gaining access to sensitive information.
Alianza delivers a SaaS platform for unified communications, 11/12/07: If you’re lucky enough to live in an area of the country that is served by multiple broadband service providers, you’ve probably noticed how intensely they are competing for new customers. Most of the service offerings seem to be around Internet, digital phone and maybe television access. If Alianza has any say, the competition and the range of broadband services is about to explode.
Video: New Zunes out from Microsoft: Microsoft is releasing three new Zune portable media players this week along with tighter integration with Windows and a new Zune Marketplace.
Secret workarounds for Microsoft technology, by CTO Chris Amaris: How to get a bug fixed almost instantly. What to do when closing an alert in Operations Manger gives you another alert. How to (legally) extend Vista’s evaluation period without activating the software. Protect your SQL traffic.
Microsoft Hyper-V Server’s limited reach: Microsoft blogger Mitchell Ashley writes: “… VMware and Citrix/Xen both have one major advantage Hyper-V Server may never have; those hypervisors run on top of lots of different operating environments. Hyper-V Server runs on top of Microsoft Server 2008. Management of Hyper-V Server in the data center is performed using System Center, another Microsoft specific platform product.”
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