Security experts have flagged a zero-day exploit in Oracle's Java software,urging users to disable it to prevent hackers remotely controlling their computers. "Java is a mess.It's not secure,"said James Blasco,labs manager for internet ...
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IDG News Service - Starting with Java 8, to be released in September, the development team behind the widely used programming language plans to release a new version of Java every two years -- and stick to that schedule. The idea is to ...
Raspberry Pi interface board PiFace will be shipping to the public in the next few weeks. The board adds eight output and eight inputs to Raspberry Pi, as well as various LEDs, switches, and a couple of relays. Most ...
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Lego Education unveiled the latest evolution of its Mindstorms range last night in London, in the form of a Linux-powered ARM 9 programmable brick which, for the first time in Lego Education's history, comes with the option of running any ...
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Stirred by a likely boost in demand from countries like the US and Japan, Indonesian textile manufacturers see their exports rising by six percent to US$ 13.4 billion during the current year, Indonesian Textile Association (API) has said. ...
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Infoworld - If you're searching for a fountain of youth, the easiest way to get that feeling of continual rebirth is to hang around a few tech product launches. Every new rollout comes with the fresh, unabashed feeling that this has never ...
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Infoworld - Dueling language popularity assessments cite C and Java as the most popular programming languages this month. The established Tiobe Programming Community Index, which determines popularity by assessing Web page totals ...
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Computerworld - LAS VEGAS -- AT&T and Qualcomm jointly announced a new development platform Monday based on a Qualcomm Gobi chipset to be used to build industrial and health care apps and embedded devices on Java to connect to AT&T 's 3G ...
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Launches RHEL 5.9. Open source behemoth Red Hat announced the next dot release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9. The firm said the release marks the beginning of Production Phase 2 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ...
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IDG News Service - Adjusting to changes in corporate hardware buying habits, the Apache Software Foundation's Cassandra NoSQL distributed database has been updated to better use larger servers through the introduction of virtual nodes and ...
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Microsoft’s C# has been crowned the number one programming language of the year by the PopularitY of Programming Language (PYPL) index. Although Java is still the most widely used programming language in the world, C#’s ...
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Celerant Technology Corp has again been ranked as a leading retail software vendor for 2012.In the RIS News LeaderBoard's Top 20 Overall Retail Software Companies,Celerant Technology,a mid-size vendor of retail management systems,was again ...
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Security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro have uncovered a piece of backdoor-type malware that infects Java-based HTTP servers and allows attackers to execute malicious commands on the underlying systems. The threat, known as ...
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IDG News Service-Oracle researchers are"winding down"development of the Fortress programming language for high-performance computing,an effort started nearly 10 years ago by Sun Microsystems. Fortress was meant to provide a superior ...
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PC World-For all the media attention that goes to Ubuntu,Linux Mint,Fedora,and the other leading Linux distributions,casual observers would have to be forgiven if they have no idea that hundreds of other distributions are out there as ...
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