Tuesday, October 26, 2004

Xandros unveils Linux Desktop Management Server app. The new Xandros Desktop Management Server software gives IT administrators the tools needed to roll out, configure and maintain mass deployments of Linux-equipped PCs. [Computerworld News] 6:49:20 PM    comment [] Search wars hit desktop computers. Another front in the on-going battle between Microsoft and Google is about to be opened. By the end of 2004 Microsoft aims to launch search software to find any kind of file on a PC hard drive. The move is in answer to Google's release of its own search tool that catalogues data on desktop PCs. The desktop search market is [OSNews] 5:09:47 PM    comment [] Under Gmail's hood. I'd been experimenting for a few months with Gmail, Google's Web mail system, without really taking it seriously. But this week I decided to take the plunge and try using Gmail not only as a mail search engine, but as a replacement for Outlook (on Windows) and Mail (on OS X). Now I'm ready to join the chorus singing the praises of GMail[base ']s user-interface technology. Its combination of HTML, JavaScript, and the DOM makes the browser do some remarkable tricks. ... As early adopters discovered long before I did, there's an architecture behind this JavaScript/DHTML wizardry. The best description I've found is from Johnvey Hwang, who deconstructed Gmail's JavaScript code and created a .Net-based Gmail API. As Hwang described in his July 5 write-up, Gmail loads a JavaScript UI engine into your browser at the beginning of each session. Oddpost, he noted, was the first Web mail application to perfect this technique. That was a prophetic statement: Just four days later, on July 9, Yahoo acquired Oddpost. Because Gmail's behavior is embedded in the UI engine, all subsequent interaction between the browser and the Gmail service is just an exchange of data. What Hwang calls the DataPack format is not XML, though; it's JavaScript. When you make a request to the Gmail service, whether to refresh your inbox or to modify the list of labels you can attach to messages, the response is a minimal set of JavaScript function calls and associated data objects that the engine uses to update the display. ... So is Gmail a rich Internet application? Sure. Although that label most often applies to Java, .Net, and Flash clients, Gmail shows that Web clients can join the club too. But crucially, Gmail's architecture is open to other kinds of rich clients, too. It doesn't have to be a zero-sum game. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] ... [Jon's Radio] 5:06:12 PM    comment [] IBM offers companies monthly security report. The IBM Global Business Security Index will compile threat information from some 2,700 IBM security professionals and half a million monitored devices so the severity of any threats can be analyzed. [Computerworld News] 3:11:42 PM    comment [] Three Amazing Things Your Automobile Can't Do. In many vehicles nowadays, you can check your e-mail, view Web sites, even watch television, from the comfort of your driver's seat. By By ERIC A. TAUB. [NYT > Technology] 2:53:22 PM    comment [] Apple debuts iPod Photo. Apple today introduced iPod Photo, a new version of the iPod that lets you take your entire music an... [MacNN | The Macintosh News Network] 2:46:32 PM    comment []

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