Apple Announces Safari 4 Browser
Apple today announced the public beta of Safari 4 web browser for Mac and Windows PCs. The Nitro engine in Safari 4 runs JavaScript 4.2 times faster than Safari 3.
View ArticleInternet Explorer 9 previewed
(PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft has released the preview version of Internet Explorer 9, which has HTML5 integration, background compiled Javascript, and scalable vector graphics (SVG) capability.
View ArticleGoogle building online Chrome application shop
Google on Wednesday gave software developers an early peek at an online Chrome Web Store it is building as an emporium for games and other applications built for use on the Web.
View ArticleWorld Cup coverage expands on the Web, cell phones
(AP) -- With games airing live on cell phones and computers, the World Cup will get more online coverage than any major sporting event yet. Watching highlights the next day on TV or YouTube will...
View ArticleThe future is now
To allow web applications run on four screens, the webinos project consortium creates a full open source code base. The tagerted technology will allow different devices and applications to work...
View ArticleYou can take it with you: Transfer open applications between computer,...
Have you ever found yourself looking up directions on your computer just before running out the door, only to end up retyping the same addresses and mapping the same route on your phone minutes later?...
View ArticleGoogle Dart debut sparks chatter of JavaScript coup
(PhysOrg.com) -- When the news appeared earlier this week that Google was unveiling a new programming language, Dart, for developers. tech blogs ignited with talk of how Google is staging a JavaScript...
View ArticleWhat drives IT performance?
Going online was once a considerable achievement for a business. Now it's a given and what makes for success is how well a business exploits its online capabilities, according to a recent study.
View ArticleAutomated stress testing for Web 2.0 applications helps Web developers find...
Web applications such as Google Mail, Facebook and Amazon are used every day. However, so far there are no methods to test them systematically and at low cost for malfunctions and security...
View ArticleMaking it easier to build secure Web applications
Two years ago, a fledgling social-networking site called Blippy accidentally posted the credit card numbers of its users online. While that was a particularly egregious example, such inadvertent...
View ArticleAutomated testing of complex Web 2.0 applications prevents security...
So far there are no methods to test complex web 2.0 applications systematically and at low cost for malfunctions and security vulnerabilities. Therefore, computer scientists from Saarland University...
View ArticleTeaching a computer to play concentration advances security, understanding of...
(Phys.org) —Computer science researchers have programmed a computer to play the game Concentration (also known as Memory). The work could help improve computer security – and improve our understanding...
View ArticleMIT researchers develop Mylar – a platform for building secure web applications
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers at MIT, led by Raluca Ada Popa has developed a platform for building secure web applications that is based on ensuring data on servers is always encrypted—they call it...
View ArticleNew programming language accommodates multiple languages in same program
Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have designed a way to safely use multiple programming languages within the same program, enabling programmers to use the language most appropriate for...
View ArticleFacebook awards 'Internet Defense Prize'
Facebook awarded a $50,000 Internet Defense Prize to a pair of German researchers with a seemingly viable approach to detecting vulnerabilities in Web applications.
View ArticleShadowCrypt research project shows encryption approach
A team of researchers from UC Berkeley and University of Maryland believe they have come up with a previously unexplored design point, ShadowCrypt, that enables encrypted input/output without trusting...
View ArticleNew programming language automatically coordinates interactions between Web...
A Web page today is the result of a number of interacting components—like cascading style sheets, XML code, ad hoc database queries, and JavaScript functions. For all but the most rudimentary sites,...
View ArticleApps could fence in free-range Internet: US study
The free-ranging Internet is under assault by mobile applications that connect people exclusively to content kept in "walled gardens" online, according to a US study released Thursday.
View ArticleMobile phones trump computers among online Chinese
Mobile phones have overtaken computers as the most popular device for getting online in China, the government said Thursday, as it announced the number of web users had hit 538 million.
View ArticleReview: Intriguing new Office suite hindered by interface
The new version of Microsoft Office has some cool new features, but it suffers from taking design cues from the upcoming Windows 8.
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