Latest network applications news.
Universities unite to build better Web applications, 04/17/07
A handful of universities is working to build a software architecture and reusable components that can make Web applications easier to develop and use.
Adobe CEO responds to Microsoft’s Silverlight, 04/17/07
The head of Adobe Systems has questioned Microsoft’s commitment to keeping its new Silverlight platform compatible with other operating systems besides Windows.
Service aims to reduce AJAX programming headaches, 04/16/07
Bungee Labs Monday announced a new on-demand service that is designed to allow Web developers to quickly build rich Internet applications and then use Bungee’s grid to host the applications.
Symantec announces Symantec Protection Network, 04/16/07
Symantec on Monday announced Symantec Protection Network, a software-as-a-service offering aimed at small to midsize businesses, with the first of the services dealing with backup and restoration of business data.
Florida uses search technology to locate sex offenders, 04/11/07
In the fall of 2006, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement tracked down a sex offender who was supposed to be dead. The man, who had been convicted of a lewd or lascivious offense against a child, was one of possibly 100,000 sexual predators nationwide who fail to comply with address registration laws and are therefore considered “missing.” This one was so missing police thought he had died.
Podcast: April already cruel for Microsoft, 04/13/07.
Jason and Keith discuss the deluge of Microsoft security issues, more bad news for Vonage as the CEO quiets, whether companies should look at e-mail alternatives because of the spam flood, and how today’s teenagers can have $500 to spend on an Apple iPhone. Click here to listen on your
Ease of use helps, hinders antispam app, 04/10/07
If you’re looking for the easiest-to-use Mac-compatible spam utility on earth, look no farther than SpamSweep 1.5.3. Yet its ease of use is a double-edged sword. While it’s a cinch to set up and learn, it provides precious few options for configuring its filters.
Podcast: Will mobile Web apps help or hurt the enterprise?, 04/11/07
Applications built for mobile users, both in the consumer and enterprise space, are growing by leaps and bounds. Keith Shaw discusses mobile Web trends with Louis Gump, vice president of mobile at The Weather Channel Interactive. Find out the future of mobile apps, including how the weather in your users’ location will affect whether they get an offer for suntan lotion or an umbrella. (15:27)
Editor’s Note: Is your IT organizational structure holding your company back?
We’re assembling a package of stories to be published in Network World looking at the IT organizational structure of the future and we need your help:News Editor Bob Brown
* If your company has recently reorganized in light of new business and technology challenges and opportunities, can you send along “before” and “after” org charts? (Feel free to strip out the names, we’re really just looking for titles. But give us a sense of the size of your IT organization/business.) Can you tell us how the reorganization has worked out?
* If your company is in need of an IT org makeover, what areas are currently most dysfunctional?
* Any advice on what your peers can do to improve their IT organizations right now?
We’re looking to tap into our readership through a technique some call “crowdsourcing.” Knowing we don’t have all the answers, but that our audience probably has a lot of them, we’re hoping to help you help each other.
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