How to Offer the Strongest SSL Encryption
[ Source: VeriSign ]
July 2008-
Learn how VeriSign SGC-enabled SSL Certificates can help improve site security and customer confidence in the free white paper, “How to Offer the Strongest SSL Encryption.” In this paper you will learn the differences between weak and strong encryption and what they mean for your site’s performance.
Estimating Cache Hit Rates From the Miss Sequence
[ Source: Hewlett-Packard ]
January 2008-
This paper published by HP considers the problem of inferring cache hit rates from observations of references that miss in the cache. In the Web context, this is the problem of inferring a browser’s cache hit rate by examining the requests that it issues to origin servers. The paper shows that a case of this problem can be solved. Specifically it considers a sequence of references to unit-sized objects generated by an LRU (Least Recently ....
Synchronizing a Web Client Database: LocalCalendar and Google Calendar
[ Source: Sun Microsystems ]
January 2008-
Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) are becoming more and more popular as the capabilities available to internet clients increase. There is a growing demand for RIAs to be able to store rich, structured, searchable data on the same machine as the web browser, and to be able to synchronize this data with a centralized data store running behind the web server. This paper from Sun Microsystems describes the flow and components of a synchronization architecture using ....
Network Explorer Extensibility
[ Source: Microsoft ]
January 2008-
Network Explorer is the place in the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system for users to discover and use all of the network resources, including network devices and computers in the Local Area Network (LAN). From Network Explorer, users can see device-specific icons and properties and invoke device-specific actions. This paper describes how Network Explorer discovers a network device; displays a device-specific icon, actions, and properties; and launches a device-specific application. This paper provides information about ....
OWeB: A Framework for Offline Web Browsing
[ Source: Microsoft ]
January 2008-
Internet browsing has traditionally been dependent on the real-time network availability and speed. This dependency becomes a significant constraint when accessing the web over slow and intermittent networks. There is an inordinate delay in downloading the web pages and files and this results in an unpleasant browsing experience. Accessing large chunks of data, or streaming content across the web often incurs problems with latency, interruptions, and poor quality, at least where network connectivity is questionable. ....
Do Security Toolbars Actually Prevent Phishing Attacks?
[ Source: Association for Computing Machinery ]
January 2008-
This paper published by Association for Computing Machinery describes about the Security toolbars in a web browser that shows security-related information about a website to help users detect phishing attacks. The authors conducted two user studies of three security toolbars and other browser security indicators and found them all ineffective at preventing phishing attacks. The authors found that many subjects do not understand phishing attacks or realize how sophisticated such attacks can be.
SenseWeb: Browsing the Physical World in Real Time
[ Source: Microsoft ]
January 2008-
This paper published by Microsoft states that the Geo-centric web interface are useful to visualize spatially and geographically related data such as addresses, neighborhoods, weather, traffic, and so on. Desires to augment additional useful information to these interfaces have led people to create custom applications that overlay their own data on top of browsable maps. This paper envisions publishing and querying real-time data (e.g., from sensors) over such geo-centric web inter-faces. Existing solutions, although useful ....
Introduction to Mozilla Firefox
[ Source: ICESoft ]
January 2008-
This paper will cover the most accepted features and settings in Mozilla Firefox, a separate open-source browser developed by the makers of the Mozilla Suite (combination email and browser). The Download Manager is a feature of Firefox that allows one to track and manage one’s past and current file downloads. It is a handy way to escape the clutter of multiple downloading windows while still preserving access to download statistics. When one downloads a file ....
Web Services for Genre Vocabularies
[ Source: OCLC Online Computer Library Center ]
January 2008-
This paper presents an approach for providing terminology Web services for prohibited vocabulary terms. Services are implemented within a service leaning framework. A set of investigational services for genre vocabularies is provided through the MS Office Research pane, a built-in feature of Internet Explorer (IE) when users have loaded MS Office 2003. Web browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox and Opera, also provide side-bars which could be used to deliver loosely-coupled Web services.
Thinix in the Hospitality Industry
[ Source: R & D Industries ]
January 2008-
Traditional approaches to provide Hotel guests with computers have been to provide a machine which typically runs Microsoft Windows for the guest. These Windows based computers are susceptible to computer viruses and Spyware. Windows based computers need constant attention and are easily misconfigured by hotel guests. While various security methods can be used to protect Windows based computers from misconfiguration, these can be easily bypassed by using special software. This white paper describes Thinix which ....