One of the most basic and important lines of defense against malware and other computer security risks is your firewall, which, among other tasks, blocks certain software on your computer from gaining ...

Web 2.0 has many doubters. It’s become a word so filled with hype that it is more the province of marketing agents and spin doctors than it is the people who build the web applications that espouse it ...

One of the question that comes up a lot in the blogs I read is what's causing the momentum swing towards RIAs. So often I focus on the examples (demos, companies, etc) and the benefits (good user ...

Notice that it's a Rich Internet Application. It includes a favorite feeds list, Friend of a Friend functionality, and a way to select favorite authors. Once you set up your favorites, you can get an ...

A Firewall is a very useful piece of software that monitors all incoming and outgoing network activity. By monitoring, you can set up rules and blocklists to filter network activity and ban any ...

What's the best way to build an application that could do anything from control home appliances remotely to gather meteorological data from sensors to produce a weather forecast? Startups offering ...

Finding a single development environment for all purposes has so far proven an unattainable goal. But with the advent of rich Internet applications (RIA), development nirvana gets a bit closer. In the ...

The use of mobile data applications has grown dramatically over the last year, even as overall cell phone ownership has remained steady Eight in ten American adults (82%) currently own a cell phone of ...

A huge chasm divides the application development world, one that dozens of vendors are rushing to fill. On one side are desktop applications, on the other are Web applications. In between are rich ...

The Internet in recent years has not just seen an incremental upgrade from 2G to 3G or 4G but a significant leap forward with the evolution of the fifth-generation network, 5G. Many new advancing ...