Dell's Linux PC Shop Opens for Business
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SPARQL Query Language for RDF Is a Candidate Recommendation
2007-06-14: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of SPARQL Query Language for RDF to Candidate Recommendation. With SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle"), developers and end users can consume search results across a wide range of information such as personal, technical, business or scientific data, social networks, or data about digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL supports extensible value testing and constrained queries, both when data is stored as RDF natively or viewed as RDF via middleware. Results can be displayed in results sets or as RDF graphs. Implementation feedback is invited through 12 August. SPARQL Query Results XML Format is a Last Call Working Draft with comments welcome through 5 July. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (Permalink)
Blockbuster favors Blu-ray DVDs to HD DVD
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Mozilla shares scanning tool, Firefox 3 features
(InfoWorld) - Open source browser maker Mozilla has developed a wide array of secure coding analysis tools as part of its internal development process, and now it's beginning to share those programs with the outside world.
As part of their presentation at the Black Hat 2007 conference in Las Vegas this week, Mozilla leaders detailed their ongoing efforts to lower the number of available vulnerabilities in their increasingly popular Firefox and Mozilla browsers.
The open source advocates also released their first code-scanning utility to the public.
Window Snyder, the San Francisco-based company's security chief, said that the tool -- built to find holes in JavaScript code -- is only the first of many such fuzzing programs that Mozilla plans to share with other developers going forward.
In the name of trying to foster more secure coding practices across the browser space and in the larger software community, Snyder and Mozilla co-founder Mike Shaver said the company is making its technology available to other developers because they believe it can be of significant use in helping its competitors, which include Microsoft, Opera, and Apple, to clean up their own JavaScript errors.
Even more important, Snyder said, the fuzzing tool could prove useful in helping those vendors protect end-users from browser-based malware exploits -- which she described as the shared goal of all browser security developers, regardless of who they work for.
The spirit in which the company is willing to share the JavaScript fuzzing technology with its rivals reflects the same open approach with which Mozilla approaches all its work, and the company will be pushing hard over the coming months and years to refine their other scanning technologies, Snyder said in an interview with InfoWorld.
"We wanted to make sure that we could do this in a way that allowed us to help other browser vendors minimize risks," Snyder said. "We have a lot more of these internal tools that we'd also like to share, but we first have to make sure that we can do so in a manner that is safe for users and other software developers."
Mozilla already has plans to release two additional fuzzing tools that can be used for testing HTTP and FTP code before the end of this year, she said. The company will release those fuzzers and a spate of similar technologies as fast as it is able to streamline the systems to the point where they can be applied simply and effectively by other vendors.
Snyder said that Mozilla has already received positive feedback on the technology from Opera, which has also told the company that it plans to modify the JavaScript tester for its own purposes.
The security expert acknowledged that such interaction is exactly what Mozilla was hoping for when it decided to pass out its creation.
"Modification such as this is just what we had in mind in bringing the JavaScript tool out," said Snyder. "As other companies use the fuzzer in the ways that best suit their technologies and ultimately improve protection for the end-users, that's when we all start to benefit."
Snyder and Shaver also offered a sneak peek at a handful of new security features that the company is building into its next-generation Firefox 3 browser.
Among the tools that will be added in the browser -- which is slated to arrive sometime before the end of 2007 -- will be extended validation certificates, anti-malware and phishing systems, and stronger password protection, the Mozilla leaders said. The browser will also offer a security interface that gives user the ability to manage all of the various protections.
Another new element of Firefox 3 will be the browser's capability to warn away users attempting to visit known malware sites. In some cases, the browser will even block people from accessing dangerous sites altogether, said Shaver.
"Users can't just ignore the warnings," Shaver said. "This feature is not without controversy, of course, but in order to help customers, we need to make them see the messages, so we have to do these types of things."
According to statistics reported in April 2007 by metrics vendor Net Applications, Firefox currently controls 15.1 percent of the global browser market, with Microsoft's Internet Explorer retaining a dominant 78.6 percent share of computer screens.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. solicitor general on Dec. 21 told the U.S. Supreme Court that failure-to-warn claims involving a drug are barred by implied preemption, but he urged the court not to take up the case until it issues preemption rulings in separate drug and device cases that are pending (Wyeth v. Diana Levine, No. 06-1249, U.S. Sup.). Full story on lexis.com
British Music at Midem 2009 Replaces CDs with USB Wristbands for Next Year's Music Conference in Can
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Author Steve McKee, Former Wall Street Journal Editor, Appears Live on WordSmitten Broadcast Sunday,
A former Wall Street Journal reporter and editor, Steve McKee discusses his recently released book ("My Father's Heart") that unravels a family tragedy, a paradox, and residual blunt force that resounds after a sudden death in the family. Sunday, November 2, at 4 P.M., Steve McKee appears live on the WordSmitten broadcast to discuss his life, his career with the Wall Street Journal, and his memoir, "My Father's Heart." Tune in to www.blogtalkradio.com/wordsmitten for this memorable interview. (PRWeb Oct 28, 2008)
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Dell, Quantum, EMC line up on de-duplication
Dell will enter the data de-duplication business next year with products that are based on Quantum's software and compatible with EMC's gear.
The products, which will feature Quantum's software on dedicated hardware boxes, will start to come out in the first half of next year and eventually will span all of Dell's storage lines from small and medium-size business gear to large enterprises equipment. Along with Quantum and EMC, Dell will have a common software architecture that will make products from all three companies compatible, Dell said.
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Data de-duplication is designed to slash the requirement for storage capacity by finding identical files or bits of information in an organization's stored data and saving them just once. For example, if two versions of a presentation differ only in the details of one slide, de-duplication lets an enterprise save just one copy each of all the slides that are identical.
Major storage vendors, including Hewlett-Packard and NetApp as well as EMC and Quantum, already sell de-duplication products. Dell believes its entry now will allow it to start out with more mature products, said Brett Roscoe, senior manager of Dell's storage division.
The alliance with Quantum and EMC is a natural move, given that EMC already uses Quantum software for data de-duplication and is also an OEM partner of Dell. But it creates a compatibility that may allow customers to implement de-duplication widely with less cost and trouble. Users will be able to replicate data to and from products from the three vendors, at multiple sites, while taking advantage of the storage efficiency of de-duplication, Roscoe said.
The technology will also help make disk storage competitive with tape. Organizations typically use tape for disaster recovery, which at a dollar per gigabyte is much less expensive than disks, but it's usually harder to get data back off tapes when needed, Roscoe said. With the compression that data de-duplication brings, the cost per byte comes down. Customers may use disk storage for recently created data, such as material from the past 90 days, that end-users most frequently need, he said.
Dell's gear will use "variable block" de-duplication, which can examine data within both files and smaller blocks of data and find duplicated bits, Roscoe said. It is the most processing-intensive form of de-duplication but can achieve the highest levels of compression, he said.
"You're slicing it finer and finer, and the finer you slice it, the more you're going to find in terms of redundancies," Roscoe said.
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