http://batamcity.com/blog Blog For BatamCity!'s Citizens & All Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:29:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It was a decision heralded by industry media types and praised by blogging heads around the Internet. Steve Sinofsky, the legendary show-runner for Microsoft Office, would take over the Windows reins from the departing Jim Allchin. Known as a stickler for hitting ship date targets, Sinofsky’s no-nonsense, under-promise and over-deliver mentality ... http://batamcity.com/blog/it-news/microsofts-sinofsky-mistake.html Oracle Corp. has filled the schedule of its OpenWorld conference with sessions hyping the various features in its 11g database, which was launched in July 2007. But the company doesn't plan to deliver new details of the anticipated 11g Release 2 (R2), or a ship date for 11g Express Edition ... http://batamcity.com/blog/it-news/oracle-mum-on-11g-release-2-11g-express-edition.html Adobe Systems Inc. last week said it will soon quash a bug in Flash that has been used for more than a month by attackers to poison Macintosh and Windows users' clipboards with URLs to malicious sites. The changes will be rolled out in Flash 10, which Adobe security ... http://batamcity.com/blog/it-news/adobe-slates-patch-for-flash-clipboard-poisoning-attacks.html BEIJING, (AFP) - - Nearly 53,000 children in China have been sickened by milk powder contaminated by an industrial chemical, the government said Monday, dramatically ramping up its previous figures. A total of 52,857 children had been brought to hospitals after falling ill, an official in the health ministry spokesman's office ... http://batamcity.com/blog/citys-life/nearly-53000-chinese-children-sickened-by-milk-powder-govt.html Samsung Electronics entered the netbook market on Friday, announcing a lightweight mini-laptop with a 10.2-inch screen called the NC10. The new netbook by the ... http://batamcity.com/blog/it-news/samsung-enters-the-netbook-fray.html Yahoo is hosting about 300 developers at its Open Hack 2008 event this weekend, encouraging them to build applications on top of the ... http://batamcity.com/blog/it-news/yahoo-hosts-developers-at-open-hack-2008.html IT organizations that feel safe from open source licensing violations might be wise to check their code, as open source components are rapidly seeping into applications by way of offshore and in-house developers taking open source shortcuts, as well as a growing population of open source-savvy grads entering the workforce. "With ... http://batamcity.com/blog/it-news/beware-open-source-violations-lurking-in-your-code.html Microsoft continued to make its case on Tuesday that it is a friend to open source, listing a number of efforts it has undertaken in spaces ranging from Linux to virtualization and rich Internet application technology. getRelatedBoxOne("/article/08/09/16/Microsoft_hails_open_source_outreach_1.html","spBoxOne") Traditionally, Microsoft has been viewed as the commercial counterpoint to the open-source movement. ... http://batamcity.com/blog/it-news/microsoft-hails-open-source-outreach.html Extensibility is a key focus for Microsoft in the planned "Visual Studio 10" upgrade to the company's software development environment, a blog post ... http://batamcity.com/blog/it-news/microsoft-visual-studio-upgrade-eyed.html Canvas, a planned HTML standard for arbitrary graphical rendering in browsers, presents a game-changing technology for high-quality graphics in AJAX applications, an advocate said at the ZendCon 2008 conference in Santa Clara, Calif. this week. With Canvas, developers can paint anything they like and are no longer wedded to merely a ... http://batamcity.com/blog/it-news/canvas-set-to-boost-ajax.html