Archive for March 2nd, 2008The NYTimes has a feature about software development systems that move the Web offline and desktop applications on the web, with a focus on Adobe Air, which will be released tomorrow. The article has quotes from the developer behind Microsoft’s Silverlight (he was a colleague at Macromedia of Adobe’s Air guy), and from the head of the Mozilla Foundation about their online/offline offering, Prism. Read more of this story at Slashdot. An anonymous reader writes “Financial institutions and companies in the securities/futures business are reporting sizable increases in the amount of losses and suspicious activity attributed to personal intrusions and identity theft, states the Washington Post’s Security Fix blog. The Post obtained a confidential report compiled by the FDIC which analyzed Suspicious Activity Reports from the 2nd Quarter of 2007. SARs are filed when banks experience fraud or fishy transactions that exceed $5,000. The bank insurance bureau found that losses from computer intrusions averaged $29,630 each — nearly triple the estimated loss per SAR during the same time period in 2006 ($10,536). According to the Post, ‘The report indicates that the 80 percent of the personal intrusions were classified as “unknown unauthorized access — on the web banking,” and that “unknown unauthorized access to on the web banking has risen from 10 to 63 percent in the past year.”‘ Another set of figures examined by The Post looks at similar increases affecting the securities and futures industry.” Read more of this story at Slashdot. Linux.com is reporting that the End Software Patents project is launching several new initiatives to help drive support for their cause. Among the new methods are a web site, a report on the state of patents in the US, and a scholarship contest promising to award $10,000 “for the best paper on the effects of the patentability of software and business methods under US law.” “The project is being launched with initial funding of a quarter million dollars, supplied primarily by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Under the directorship of Ben Klemens, a long-time advocate of software patent abolition best-known for the book Math You Can’t Use: Patents, Copyright, and Software, the project is being supported by the FSF, the Public Patent Foundation, and the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). One of ESP’s goals is to enlist support from academics, software developers, legal experts, and business executives. Its initial supporters show that the project is already well on its way to building such a coalition.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Finance & Economics | Economist.com Finance & Grants (CA Dept of Education) Say of Alabama - Department of Finance Finance and Investment in the Yahoo! Directory Adobe Acrobat - Acrobat solutions for finance professionals World wide web Public Library: Finance News about money and personal finance — get the latest personal … Careers in Finance eldavojohn writes “In a split (4-3) decision, a Virginia court has upheld the verdict against the spam king making it clear that spam isn’t protected by the U.S. Constitution’s first amendment or even its interstate commerce clause. ‘Prosecutors presented evidence of 53,000 illegal e-mails Jaynes sent over three days in July 2003. But authorities believe he was responsible for spewing 10 million e-mails a day in an enterprise that grossed up to $750,000 per month. Jaynes was charged in Virginia because the e-mails went through an AOL server in Loudoun County, where America On the web is based. ‘” Read more of this story at Slashdot. |
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