captcha (an acronym for “completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart”) is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human. The term was coined in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, and Nicholas J. Hopper of Carnegie Mellon University, and […]

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML has come under scrutiny recently, after it was discovered that AJAX has the potential to expose browsers to potential security problems.
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, the collection of programming technologies that promises to deliver online content to users without reloading an entire Web page, is back in the news. But this […]

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IIOP.NET allows a seamless interoperation between .NET, CORBA and J2EE distributed objects. This is done by incorporating CORBA/IIOP support into .NET, leveraging the remoting framework.
IIOP.NET is released under the LGPL license.
IIOP.NET was born on May, 2 2003, and grew from a small experimental project to a stable and useful application, mostly thank to the […]

Add some basic GMail functionality to Thunderbird, such as search expressions and the archive key (’Y’).
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Job searches come easy to search engine experts.

Udi Manber, the chief executive of Amazon.com’s (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ) search engine subsidiary A9 has found a new home at Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ). Effective Friday, Manber will become Google’s vice president of engineering.

Google is offering a new tool that will automatically transfer information from one personal computer to another, but anyone wanting that convenience must authorise the Internet search leader to store the material for up to 30 days.