It uses the Simple Object Access Protocol, a protocol for a common XML (Extensible Markup Language) messaging format for Internet applications.

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The e-commerce platform that UBee plans to launch next month will rely on SOAP, for Simple Object Access Protocol, a technology standard based on using "envelopes" that retailers and uBee use to exchange information quickly enough to make these real-time offers.

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If money is a number, not an object, then the need for security shifts from protecting that object to protecting access to that number.

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The vulnerability exists when MSXML attempts to access an object in memory that has not been initialized, which may corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the logged-on user.

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And while open access supporters should certainly object to the harshness of the penalties being contemplated here, it would be a mistake to transform him into a saintly folk hero of open access.

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Until access has been granted, the ABAddressBookRef object will not contain any contacts, and any attempt to modify contacts fails with akABOperationNotPermittedByUserError error.

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Tom Higgins, the boss of Best Western, says free access is becoming the norm because travellers object to paying for what they now regard as an essential service.

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Two-factor authentication works by requiring that anyone who wants to gain access to something possess not just a password or login, but also some physical object.

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