Measuring its collection of apps against the standards of the Open Web Application Security Project or OWASP, Veracode found that only 16% of government web applications were secure, compared with 24% of finance industry software and 28% of commercial software.
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It can parse all the components of a Web application like Facebook to selectively allow, for instance, the reading of News Feeds while blocking Chat and Games features .
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Users download the free application off the Web, but instead of typing a text message, they use a headset, telephone or microphone and speakers to make a high-quality, two-way voice call to anyone else running the application.
The average number of web application attacks is 61.4 among on-premise customers and 27.8 on service provider customers.
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It uses the web application acceleration features that F5 usually deploys in front of web servers to allow faster access to those applications in a secure manner.
The overriding lesson is clear: in this age of increasing web application complexity, know the external services upon which your site depends and have plans in place to mute the inevitable ripple effects that will occur.
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The University of Rochester has turned research about predicting the spread of diseases with social media into a web application called Germ Tracker.
The two decided to take a shot at designing a custom web application for farmers based on some of the feedback that they received from the community.
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Having been caught out by the Internet-stoked demand for web and application servers as well as the very late arrival of Windows 2000 and Intel's Itanium chip, both have recently produced high-end servers that have outscored Sun's in benchmark tests.
But there are also free ways to get ringtones, like the ringtone creator application on Facebook -- one of several ringtone applications on the social-networking Web site -- that make setting ringtones all the more appealing.
It's a cool look at the guts of a complex and innovative Web application.
With the acquisition of DimDim, the company will likely add web-conferencing capabilities to the Chatter application.
How many IT organizations are stuck on IE 6 because a web app was coded to take specific advantage of the IE 6 rendering engine, meaning that the application will not run satisfactorily on any other web browser?
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To that end it's created the TV Application Layer (TAL), which uses the latest web technologies, like HTML5, to do as much of the heavy lifting as possible for would-be hardware makers.
These are some of the important questions I developed the CommonGround web application to explore.
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Every time we create a new composite application--an application built using Web services as components--will the amount of effort it takes to make all the services work together exceed the effort spent on doing the task at hand?
Thanks to huge improvements in web services and application interface design, the user experience of legacy enterprise applications can readily be reengineered for touch.
The coolest application I immediately thought of for Smart Glass was when they announced a new web browser for Xbox.
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Others say more and more data is being housed on application servers accessible via the Web and that opportunities are essentially limitless - regardless of how late Novell is getting into the market.
By looking at the average number of page views per user per month and the average page load time, I was able to develop an estimate of the total hours the US population wastes each year due to slow web application performance.
Web services are currently most visible in the business model of so-called application service providers.
Once she did that, she says, she was directed to a Web page advertising various jobs and no explanation as to the fate of her application.
The new version of WAP, or wireless application protocol - a standard that allows mobile devices to display Web-like information - is due out by January, and is expected to create a PC-type environment that could open the door to attacks.
Businesses, nonprofits and government entities submitted a total of 1, 930 applications for new Web address endings earlier this year for the latest application process.
On Wednesday, YouTube announced the next step in its transformation from destination to application, releasing a set of free software tools that let Web developers create fully functional YouTube players on their own sites.
Securing a small business' computer systems--which might involve all sorts of gorpy stuff like firewalls, application Web network scanners, access controls and database encryption--can run into the tens of thousands of dollars, says Litan.
Sun said in-house tests showed the application server running on a 64-way Sun Enterprise 10000 to be capable of handlingover 1, 500 Web-to-database transactions per second, and more than 2, 600 page views per second, or 225 million page viewsper day.
With a majority of retailers today using social media to offer promotions or coupons, a solid Application Control and URL Filtering solution can help mitigate the risks employees may encounter with millions of websites and Web 2.0 applications accessible to users.
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While COBOL has not gone away at the banks, more and more of the technical staff spend their time programming new features and interfaces in modern languages and web application frameworks that provide highly applicable and transferable skills to startups only too happy to hire them for their technical training and domain experience.
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There is a need for a platform that is user centric for application management, a possibility of your different devices connecting to a web-based platform, so the device is not as important.
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