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Facebook has been testing a feature with a handful of retail partners that would allow customers to automatically enter their payment information into mobile devices via their Facebook accounts. Because Facebook is the first name in online security
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A powerful new Google+ photo app embodies a sticky situation facing Web developers: embrace the Native Client tech for high-performance Web apps and risk sites that only work for Chrome users. Open or optimized? Welcome back to the 90s
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Most problems date back more than a decade and resulted from old versions of Java being run, a company official insists It's easy: people find security holes, they try to fix them. Controlled!
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What are today's main malware threats across PCs and mobiles? F-Secure has just released its Threat Report for the first half of 2013... "As they head down to the water hole, they are unaware of what waits for them."
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Many open-source and cloud-based tools now offer a cheaper and more lightweight alternative to .NET, solutions provider says. However, are they ready for the enterprise? One down, but I imagine there are a few left
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Good riddance.
.net is what you make it.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: .net is what you make it
You know. That would look damn fine on a t-shirt. Hopefully this isn't an insult, but you're a better marketer than most of them at the Fish Shoppe.
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TTFN - Kent
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I don't understand this. Developers makes a lot less than lawyers, doctors, and even if you work for an investment bank, you get a lot less than traders throwing darts.
What's wrong with software vendor charging decent sum of money?
And have you seen what financial data vendor like Bloomberg, S&P, Reuters ...etc or vendor in quant finance are charging? USD 1500-2000 per month for a analytical software is very common - that's per desk, per month.
I, as developer, want make more money.
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Huge chunks of the market have been spoiled by OSS, so they assume software (other than theirs) should be free.
Logically I guess I understand it (it's just human nature), but I just don't understand.
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TTFN - Kent
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yes that's complete horse sh*t, "If software should be free, so should the lowly IT consultant"
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Help desk staffers are coveted, but developers are the hottest commodity of all.But developers often do have a choice. Are you hot? Or Not?
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Lists like that are so high level as to be useless. Aside from replacing y2k consultant with mobile app developer is there any difference between that list and one from the late 90s?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Sometimes the market drives us to choose one platform (a device, operating system, protocol) over another, whatever our personal technical preferences. We're all pretty well aware of the tech and business issues in a developer's mind when she contemplates which mobile phone to target, if the Windows 8 market is big enough to justify an investment, or if her consulting client insists on integrating an application with Facebook over Twitter. Most of us have to stay in business, or want to stay employed.
But developers often do have a choice. "Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn."
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Application development tool provider Telerik has announced that its cloud-based mobile development tool Icenium now directly integrates with Visual Studio 2012. This integration is for .NET developers who want to create Android and iOS applications yet still use Visual Studio. iPhone (and Android) apps without XCode? Yes please.
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Reliant on plug-ins like Silverlight, Unity, and Java? Make plans to move on or change browsers, because most plug-ins will be banned from Chrome in the next year. Time to unplug
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Software giant Oracle kicked off its annual OpenWorld conference in San Francisco tonight with a big keynote speech by CEO Larry Ellison, during which he said the company has significantly boosted the speed at which its databases can run. Oh, tell me more of this "in memory database". Sounds innovative.
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Remember the days when some people, concerned about security, would disable JavaScript in their browsers? Today that seems like a ridiculous notion. JavaScript rules the Web. world.prototype.ruleTheWorld = function() { console.log("This makes sense to some");}
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After a forever-long countdown to a three-tiered announcement, Valve has rolled out phase one of its plan to take over your living room: SteamOS. It's the law now: every company needs their own OS
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An actual released vapor-ware !!! 
I'd rather be phishing!
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So, is it a steaming pile of OS?
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: So, is it a steaming pile of O'S?
FTFY.
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Months before announcing a near $1 billion net operating loss and plans to eliminate 40 percent of its workforce, foundering smartphone pioneer BlackBerry bought a long-range private jet in which to ferry its executives around. "Who mourns for Adonais? Oh, come forth"
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*boggle*
Since the buyer is a long term share holder I'm wondering if they're deluding themselves about recovering the company. I was expecting some combination of MS/Apple/Google/Amazon/etc to war with the other half of the group for patents and then fob the remainder of the corpse off on vulture equity for dismemberment.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Oh, I never thought about Amazon. That could have been a good match. Not just for patents, but they could have launched a decent phone. (A Kindle Phone)
I guess, Blackberry just needed the money, while they still have the creative control over the product. so they chose an insurance company over a tech company.
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