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Intel Inside and Out: Fall 2005 IDF
Our new tech analyst, Victor Loh, spent some time in the weeds of Intel Developer Conference sessions last week. These sessions are the real meat of IDF, so check out his reports on the various topics that will enable new features and affect performance in the upcoming year. Development Tools: Multicore and Mac OS X…
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More Issues Found With PHP
The Hardened-PHP Project of Germany is at it again. They found a bug in XML-RPC for PHP and PEAR XML_RPC. The project was looking for these kinds of problems in the libraries in a security audit they conducted because of previous flaws that had been found in these same PHP libraries earlier in the year.…
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Skype Pushes Voice Further By Opening API
VOIP provider Skype said Wednesday that it plans to open up its network to outside developers, allowing voice-over-IM functionality to be included inside a number of disparate applications. Skype will publish its APIs and open its SkypeNet network next week, when the company celebrates its second anniversary. A second application, SkypeNet, will offer presence functionality.…
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MGE Reloaded: The Titanium Case
When we received the MGE Titanium case for review, we didn’t know quite what to expect. In 2004, MGE launched two new product divisions, XG and ione, each with very different goals. XG, short for “Extreme Gamer,” targeted the “hardcore PC gamer” audience while ione focused on providing more-civilized products for “everyday lifestyles from the…
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Intel Preps Mac OS X Developer Tools
Intel Corp. will port its software developer tools to Mac OS X and will ship its first beta later this year, the chip maker told developers on Tuesday at its first-ever session on Mac OS X at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Kevin Smith, director of Intel Compiler Labs, said that Intel will…
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Microsoft Buffs Sparkle ‘Flash Killer’
At its upcoming Professional Developers Conference next month, Microsoft Corp. is set to shed more details on its developer-oriented graphics tool, code-named Sparkle. Sparkle will be one element of the upcoming Expression Studio suite of design and developer tools for the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), formerly known as Avalon. Expression Studio also is expected to…
