Walt Schlender will be joining us to discuss Adobe Flash, Flex, Air, Microsoft Silverlight, and how they all fit together.
Walt is a Flex architect and entrepreneur living in Berkeley, CA. He’s been playing with Flash, ActionScript and Flex for the past 3 years. Half that time found him working on a software startup called Mousecloud that tried to connect people in real-time over the internet – currently he’s enjoying helping companies figure out how to build LARGE web applications – over the years he’s played with a lot of cool web technologies and loves talking about how they fit into the real world.
The 16-year-old network—owned by NBC Universal—plans to announce that Syfy is its new name March 16 at its upfront presentation to advertisers in New York.
At CanSecWest security conference recently, there was a Pwn2Own contest to demonstrate new exploits in popular Browsers on Mac and Windows. A fully patched Mac was the first to be compromised (in about 5 seconds) followed by IE8 and Firefox 3. Only Google’s Chrome browser was left standing.
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The secretive Internet filter blacklist held by the communications watchdog ACMA has been leaked, revealing the government has understated the amount of banned Web pages by more than 1000.
Multiple legitimate businesses and Web sites have been banned including two bus companies, online poker sites, multiple Wikipedia entries, Google and Yahoo group pages, a dental surgery and a tour operator.
Sun Microsystems soared in European trading after a report that it was in talks to be acquired by IBM. The Wall Street Journal, quoting “people familiar with the matter,” reported Wednesday that International Business Machines was in talks to buy the company for at least $6.5 billion in cash, a premium of more than 100 percent over the company’s closing share price Tuesday.
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