blueton tips us to a brief story about current revelations from the Pentagon which indicate that the attack on their computer network in June 2007 was more serious than they originally claimed. A DoD official recently remarked that the hackers were able to obtain an “amazing amount” of data. We previously discussed rumors that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army was behind the attack. CNN has an article about Chinese hackers who claim to have successfully stolen information from the Pentagon. Quoting Ars Technica: “The intrusion was first detected during an IT restructuring that was underway at the time. By the time it was detected, malicious code had been in the system for at least two months, and was propagating via a known Windows exploit. The bug spread itself by e-mailing malicious payloads from one system on the network to another.”

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Filed under: Internet, Web services, VoIP

Web telephony service Jaduka has launched a bunch of new tools that make it simple to initiate telephone to telephone calls over the web. The most basic service is called dukaDIAL, and it grants you to enter any two phone numbers to initiative a phone call. DukaDIAL will call one number and then the other and initiate a connection. No computer headset or microphone required. Jaduka doesn’t charge anything for these calls, but your telephone provider might.

Jaduka offers several other services that use the same basic technology. For example, dukaBAR is a browser toolbar for Firefox or World wide web Explorer. Once it’s installed you can click a button and automatically detect any phone number on any web page. A telephone icon will show up next to those phone numbers, and if you click on that icon, Jaduka will initiate a phone call between your number and the number on the page. Skype offers a similar browser plugin, but with Skype you’re making a PC to phone call, while Jaduka initiates phone to phone calls.

There’s also a dukaBuzz widget which you can install on any web page to allow visitors to leave listen to voice comments, and a dukaLINK tool for creating clickable links that’ll initiate phone calls.

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Filed under: World wide web, Web services, VoIP

Web telephony service Jaduka has launched a bunch of new tools that make it simple to initiate telephone to telephone calls over the web. The most basic service is called dukaDIAL, and it allows you to enter any two phone numbers to initiative a phone call. DukaDIAL will call one number and then the other and initiate a connection. No computer headset or microphone required. Jaduka doesn’t charge anything for these calls, but your telephone provider might.

Jaduka offers several other services that use the same basic technology. For example, dukaBAR is a browser toolbar for Firefox or Internet Explorer. Once it’s installed you can click a button and automatically detect any phone number on any web page. A telephone icon will show up next to those phone numbers, and if you click on that icon, Jaduka will initiate a phone call between your number and the number on the page. Skype offers a similar browser plugin, but with Skype you’re making a PC to phone call, while Jaduka initiates phone to phone calls.

There’s also a dukaBuzz widget which you can install on any web page to allow visitors to leave listen to voice comments, and a dukaLINK tool for creating clickable links that will initiate phone calls.

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Filed under: Internet, Web services, Mozilla, Beta

Mozilla has released an updated version of Prism, an application that lets open web applications like Gmail, Google Docs, or Zoho Writer in a stripped down Firefox-like browser. The result is that you can quickly launch web applications and treat them as if they were desktop applications.

The most noticeable change is that Firefox 3 beta users don’t need to download and install Prism as a separate application. They have the ability to just install a new Prism extension for Firefox 3. Once installed, you can visit any web site in Firefox and convert it into an application and place a shortcut on your desktop or in your start menu.

If you’re not using Firefox 3, you can download the standalone installer for Prism 0.9 for Windows, Mac, or Linux. The latest build also includes the capability to pick an icon for your shortcut, and create a separate profile for each web application.

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Filed under: World wide web, Web services, Mozilla, Beta

Mozilla has released an updated version of Prism, an application that lets open web applications like Gmail, Google Docs, or Zoho Writer in a stripped down Firefox-like browser. The result is that you can swiftly launch web applications and treat them as if they were desktop applications.

The most noticeable change is that Firefox 3 beta users don’t need to download and install Prism as a separate application. They can just install a new Prism extension for Firefox 3. Once installed, you can visit any web site in Firefox and convert it into an application and place a shortcut on your desktop or in your begin menu.

If you’re not using Firefox 3, you can download the standalone installer for Prism 0.9 for Windows, Mac, or Linux. The latest build also includes the ability to pick an icon for your shortcut, and create a separate profile for each web application.

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Filed under: Design, World wide web, Web services

Browsershots is a free web service for viewing a website in about 50 web browsers among 4 operating systems (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, BSD). This is helpful for checking your web design on multiple configurations without having to use virtual machines or extra hardware and software.

You just enter your URL, check the browsers you want to see, select extra output options like screen width, color depth, and Javascript version, and then click “Submit.”

Your job will be added to a queue so that all of the browser screenshots can be generated, so waste some time for a few minutes. When the job is complete, you’ll have a group of thumbnails (one for each browser screenshot).

Clicking a thumbnail will enlarge the screenshot and give you information on the computer and browser that rendered your site. Clicking the screenshot again will enlarge the picture to full size.

Browsershots supports Firefox 3 (on Linux and Windows) and IE 8, but not Safari 3.

[Thanks Jonathan!]

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Filed under: Design, World wide web, Web services

Browsershots is a free web service for viewing a website in about 50 web browsers among 4 operating systems (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, BSD). This is helpful for checking your web design on multiple configurations without having to use virtual machines or extra hardware and software.

You just enter your URL, check the browsers you want to see, choose extra output options like screen width, color depth, and Javascript version, and then click “Submit.”

Your job will be added to a queue so that all of the browser screenshots can be generated, so waste some time for a few minutes. When the job is complete, you’ll have a group of thumbnails (one for each browser screenshot).

Clicking a thumbnail will enlarge the screenshot and give you information on the computer and browser that rendered your site. Clicking the screenshot again will enlarge the picture to full size.

Browsershots supports Firefox 3 (on Linux and Windows) and IE 8, but not Safari 3.

[Thanks Jonathan!]

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Filed under: World wide web, Web services, web 2.0

MyBloop is yet another service that lets users upload and share files with the world. You can upload pretty much any file type, and MyBloop will detect media files and grant you to view them on the internet using an audio, video or image viewer. You can also share links or embed files on any web page.

What makes MyBloop stand out from the competition is a nifty file management system. You can easily upload a bunch of files at once using the internet interface. Or you can download a desktop client for Windows or Mac that will let you drag and drop files from your desktop. Once your files are on the web there’s a nice Ajaxy interface for dragging and dropping files between folders.

You can upload as many files as you like, but there’s a file size limit of 1GB. Users can also search for files uploaded by others, or browse the most viewed or most recently uploaded files. Not surprisingly, there’s a lot of copyrighted material on the site, but there’s a nice link at the bottom of the page for anyone who wants to file a DCMA takedown request.

[via MakeUseOf]

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Filed under: World wide web, Web services, web 2.0

MyBloop is yet another service that lets users upload and share files with the world. You can upload pretty much any file type, and MyBloop will detect media files and allow you to view them on the internet using an audio, video or image viewer. You can also share links or embed files on any web page.

What makes MyBloop stand out from the competition is a nifty file management system. You can easily upload a bunch of files at once using the internet interface. Or you can download a desktop client for Windows or Mac that will let you drag and drop files from your desktop. Once your files are online there’s a nice Ajaxy interface for dragging and dropping files between folders.

You can upload as many files as you like, but there’s a file size limit of 1GB. Users can also search for files uploaded by others, or browse the most viewed or most recently uploaded files. Not surprisingly, there’s a lot of copyrighted material on the site, but there’s a nice link at the bottom of the page for anyone who wants to file a DCMA takedown request.

[via MakeUseOf]

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Filed under: Internet, Blogging, Web services, Commercial

BlogBackupOnline plans to end its public beta next week with the launch of version 1.5. Most existing users won’t notice much difference. BlogBackupOnline will continue to scan your site daily and perform a complete backup of your Blogger, WordPress, LiveJournal, or other blog for free. But some customers with bigger blogs will be prompted to sign up for a paid subscription.

The cutoff point is 5MB. While this might not sound like a lot, in our tests, we managed to backup nearly 400 blog posts while using less than 4MB. Users who need more storage space will have the option of purchasing 50MB for $49.95 per year or 1GB for $99.95 per year.

Users who haven’t hit the 5MB point yet will be upgraded to BlogBackupOnline 1.5 automatically when the new version is launched. Anyone who’s already over the 5MB limit will get a 6 week grace period to decide whether to upgrade.

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