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Enterprises Tap Open Source via Eclipse
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:12:09 -0400
Enterprise organizations are tapping the benefits not only of using open-source software, but of contributing to it by using the Eclipse model. The Eclipse Swordfish, Tigerstripe, Open Financial Market Platform and Open System Engineering Environment projects are all based on code contributed by enterprises that use open-source technology. - As an indication that the open-source model is beginning to mature and move beyond just ISVs and into the enterprise, Eclipse Foundation leaders say a new trend in Eclipse indicates that enterprises are beginning to develop and contribute code to Eclipse projects. This means the promise and prin...
Worm on NASA Space Station Underscores Spread of Online Gaming Threats
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:11:26 -0400
Researchers at McAfee and anti-virus vendor ESET have found virtual gaming threats are on the rise. Recent reports of the discovery of a password-stealing worm targeted at online gamers aboard the International Space Station underscore the prevalence of the problem. NASA has said no mission-critical systems were affected by the worm's presence. - A laptop and an affinity for online gaming that may have been all it took to introduce a cyber-security threat to a space station. Though NASA spokesperson Kelly Humphries remained unwilling Aug. 29 to officially confirm the nature of the worm detected on laptops at the International Space Stati...
Microsoft Buys Ciao.com to Boost E-Shopping Search
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:59:20 -0400
In a bid to boost its Internet search and e-commerce business in Europe, Microsoft agrees to buy Greenfield Online, owner of popular European price comparison Web site ciao.com, for about $486 million. - By Georgina Prodhan LONDON (Reuters) - Microsoft has agreed to buy Greenfield Online, owner of popular European price comparison website ciao.com, for about $486 million to boost its Internet search and e-commerce business in Europe. Microsoft, whose $47.5 billion bid to buy Yahoo earlier this...
Malaysia Internet Ban on Anti-Government Web Site Draws Outcry
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:02:11 -0400
Malaysia has pulled the plug on a popular news portal often critical of the government, sparking protests from a resurgent opposition. Malaysia's telecoms watchdog ordered Internet providers to block access to the Malaysia Today (www.malaysia-today.net) Web site because it posted comments that could incite the country's multiracial society, a government official said on Friday. Home (Interior) Minister Syed Hamid said Malaysia Today's editor Raja Petra Kamaruddin had ignored warnings from the watchdog to abide by the law. - KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia has pulled the plug on a popular news portal often critical of the government, sparking protests from a resurgent opposition. Malaysia's telecoms watchdog ordered Internet providers to block access to Malaysia Today (www.malaysia-today.net) Web site because it ...
Comcast to Throttle Cable Internet Customers' Broadband Network Usage
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:00:16 -0400
Comcast, the largest U.S. cable network infrastructure operator, said, Aug. 28 it will cap customers' Internet usage starting Oct. 1 in a bid to ensure the best service for the vast majority of its subscribers. Comcast customers who top 250 GB in a month - the equivalent of 50 million e-mails or 124 standard-definition movies - twice in a six-month timeframe could have service terminated for a year. - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Comcast Corp, the largest U.S. cable operator, said on Thursday it will cap customers' Internet usage starting Oct. 1, in a bid to ensure the best service for the vast majority of its subscribers. Comcast said it was setting a monthly data usage threshold of 250 gigaby...
MySpace Overtakes Yahoo in Display Ad Views, Closes AOL and MSN
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:47:59 -0400
Yahoo lost its lead of the U.S. market for online display advertising to MySpace and its parent company News Corp's Fox Interactive Media and MySpace. Fox Interactive's collection of sites, led by MySpace, drew 56.8 billion advertising views in June, compared with Yahoo's group of sites which had 53.1 billion, according to data from Web audience measurement firm comScore this week. A MySpace executive said it is closing the gap with rivals such as Yahoo, Time Warner's AOL and Microsoft's MSN after the revamp of its home page in June, which has drawn in big-name sponsors such as Sprint and Wendy's. - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc has lost its lead of the U.S. market for online display advertising to MySpace and its parent company News Corp's Fox Interactive Media and MySpace, new industry data shows. Fox Interactive's collection of sites, led by MySpace, drew 56.8 billion advertising ...

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Machinists leadership says Boeing's last, best offer isn't good enough
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:23:06 -0700
IAM leaders recommending members go out on strike
Microsoft buys shopping site to boost Web search in Europe
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Microsoft is buying a Munich, Germany-based Web comparison shopping site and its parent company for about $486 million in cash. The software giant says...
Consumer spending slows as incomes drop
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Consumer spending slowed to a crawl and personal incomes plunged in July, reflecting the waning impact of $93 billion in economic stimulus...

NYT > Technology

Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S.
Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:14:33 -0000
The increasing flow of data around the United States may have intelligence, and possibly military, consequences.
With Software, Till Tampering Is Hard to Find
Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:20:47 -0000
Thanks to a software program called a zapper, even technologically illiterate restaurant and store owners can siphon cash from registers and cheat tax officials.
Comcast to Place a Cap on Internet Downloads
Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:58:30 -0000
Comcast, one of the country’s largest Internet providers, will put a 250 gigabyte-a-month cap on residential users, a move certain to create tension.

CNN.com - Technology

Apple fans loyal through it all
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:35:31 -0400
Read full story for latest details.
Web surfing without leaving a trace
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:13:39 -0400
Read full story for latest details.
How flies avoid 'swatter threat'
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:49:23 -0400
Flies always appear to be a step ahead of the swatter. And now scientists believe they know why.

NPR Topics: Technology

GeoEye-1 Will Be A High-Res Eye In The Sky
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:29:00 -0400
The GeoEye-1 satellite will be capable of making out details on Earth just 16 inches across. It will be the highest resolution satellite run by a private company; it's images will be marketed to a range of governments and private customers.
Obama Uses Text Messaging With Eye On Nov. 4
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:22:00 -0400
The Obama campaign has used text messaging to communicate with its supporters. Andrew Rasiej, founder of TechPresident, a blog that focuses on technology and the presidential campaigns, says the cell phone numbers can be used to get out the vote on Nov. 4.
'Marketplace' Report: Relief For Porn Addicts
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:00:00 -0400
In the newest test version of Microsoft's forthcoming Internet Explorer, consumers will have the option to surf without a "history." There are benefits to this feature beyond just prolonging marriages.

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition

Ofcom seeks help on mobile rules
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:02:34 -0000
Mobile owners with views on the state of the telephony market are being sought by regulator Ofcom.
Hackers prepare supermarket sweep
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:06:37 -0000
Cyber thieves are hatching a plan to steal US funds through British supermarkets, the BBC learns.
Chemical coat to mean drier socks
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:28:11 -0000
Technology developed to protect soldiers from chemical weapons may help to make almost any surface or fabric waterproof.

Reuters Video: Technology

Reuters Technology Week
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:42:18 -0400
Aug. 28 - The latest in food-fuel and new technology helps decipher the Dead Sea scrolls.
Sony launches thinnest LCD TV
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:56:08 -0400
Aug 28 - The Bravia ZX1 measuring 9.9 millimetres deep is one example of the evolution of flat panel TVs being revealed at the Berlin IFA trade fair.
Seals star on own web site
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:37:09 -0400
Aug. 26 - New technology is giving scientists and wildlife fans the chance to observe one of Lake Baikal's shyest inhabitants, the 'nerpa' seal as it is known locally.

AP Top Technology News At 11:27 p.m. EDT

FAA outage reveals odd computing practices
By JOELLE TESSLER and JORDAN ROBERTSON Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:09:08 -0000
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When a computer glitch at a Federal Aviation Administration center caused widespread airline delays this week, it served as a reminder that the U.S. flight system is waiting for a modernizing overhaul. But it also appears the FAA's management of its existing technologies falls short of standards in other vital sectors....
Soft economy speeds newspaper decline, job cuts
By ANICK JESDANUN Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:19:53 -0000
NEW YORK (AP) -- The newspaper industry's downward spiral is accelerating as the weak U.S. economy depresses already-tumbling advertising revenue and forces more rounds of job cuts and other trims....
Phone companies prepare backup plans for Gustav
By PETER SVENSSON Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:27:06 -0000
NEW YORK (AP) -- The hurricane bearing down on the Gulf Coast could be a test for the country's wireless carriers, which faced criticism and a regulatory push after Hurricane Katrina took out networks....

CNET News.com

Audio slideshow: Video game orchestra
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:19:00 -0700
In this audio slideshow, a symphony orchestra takes us on a trip down memory lane playing some of the most dynamic video game music written to date.
Intel acquires Linux mobile developers for Atom
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:11:01 -0700
The chip giant has acquired open-source mobile specialist Opened Hand, which will now focus on developing a Linux software stack for Atom processors.
Few tech tracks for McCain's VP pick
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:09:00 -0700
It's not surprising that Gov. Sarah Palin is a little-known quantity when it comes to tech policy and renewable energy, given Alaska's absence of a big tech industry.

 

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The CPAN Search Site - A comprehensive index of Perl Modules. The index is fully searchable and up to date.

AI::Categorizer - A framework for automatic text categorization

Apache/Perl Module List - A list of Perl modules used for interacting with the Apache Webserver.
Meta Description: [ mod_perl documentation: On CPAN you will be able to find a number of Perl modules created to run under mod_perl. We will give a presentation of them here and ways to get at these modules. ]

Apache::ASP - A Perl module that provides an Active Server Pages (ASP) port to the Apache Webserver. It allows developers to create dynamic web applications with session management and embed Perl code directly in static HTML files.
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Apache::Cookie - Interface to the cookie routines in libapreq. Based on CGI::Cookie.

Apache::Htaccess - Allows creation and modification of Apache .htaccess files.
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App::Modular and other Perl Modules - Modules for developing modular applications, template parser, configuration file handling, and daemons.

500 Authen::PAM - A Perl module which provides an interface to the PAM library.

Backend News Project - A group of Perl modules that can be used to extract backend news files from different web sites and display the news in a personal website that has the ability to run Perl CGI scripts. Project is still in beta phase.

Browse and Search CPAN - Randy Kobes - Documentation on CPAN modules along with links to file name, module name, and category resources.
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Cache::Cache - Designed to assist a developer in persisting data for a specified period of time.

CDDB / CDDB_Get - Retrieves the CDDB information for an audio CD.

CFITSIO - Offers an interface to William Pence's CFITSIO subroutine library.

cgi-lib.pl - Very popular Perl 4/5 module for simple CGI tasks, such as reading form input.
Meta Description: [ The cgi-lib.pl home page ]

CGI.pm - A popular module for CGI programming; read forms, use cookies, and generate HTML. Included in the standard distribution of Perl 5.

CGI::Cache - Perl extension to help cache output of time-intensive CGI scripts so that subsequent visits to such scripts will not cost as much time.

Class::Date - Provides a date datatype for Perl. With mailing list.

Config:: - Facilitates cached and pre-parsed file reading.

Config::General - Generic Perl module for reading and writing complex configuration files. Listed on CPAN.
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CORBA::ORBit - Perl binding for ORBit.

CPAN Code Search by Gonzui - Searches within the source code of all the modules available on CPAN.

CPAN Leaderboard - A list of CPAN authors, sorted in descending order by number of distributions contributed. Source code available.

CPAN++ - Provides command-line access to the CPAN interface.

CryptoPDF - A perl module that encrypt PDF files. It can be used from either a command line script or as part of a CGI program.
Meta Description: [ P3P Tools CryptoPDF - A Perl module to encrypt PDF output. ]

404 Db::Documentum - Home of Db::Documentum co-author. Site includes latest source, news and tutorial.

Devel::Profiler - Profiler compatible with dprofpp.
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dTemplate - General-purpose, lightweight, templating system.

Embperl - A server-side tool and framework for building websites with embedding Perl code in HTML pages. [Open source, GPL or Artistic License]

Finance::Quote - Can be used to obtain information from a variety of sources, including markets in Australia, USA, Canada, Europe, and a number of managed funds.

Finance::QuoteHist - Several modules designed to fetch historical stock quotes from the web. Includes interfaces for Yahoo, WallStreetCity, and SiliconInvestor.

Finance::StockTrade - Library of modules (and example scripts) for performing various on-line stock trading tasks such as buying, selling, and monitoring.

fmscore and Mail::Freshmeat - A Perl program and module which it use supplied by the user of freshmeat.net newsletter to rank the entries in a newsletter by interest. It also has the nice side effect of removing the advertising from the top of the newsletter.

Geo::METAR - Designed for accessing aviation weather information.

Glade-Perl - Perl generator for Glade.

GPS - Provides access to several GPS protocols, such as Garmin, NMEA, and Magellan.
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gt; Module - A guide to creating new Perl modules and locating existing ones.
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404 IMAP::Admin - Perl module for basic IMAP server administration, including create, delete, subscribe and quota methods

IMDB.pm - Allows the retrieval of information about DVDs and media from the Internet Movie Database.

Installing Perl Modules - A guide to installing Perl modules on Unix and Windows platforms.

Java - Module allows talk to a JVM on a local or remote machine.

LEGO::RCX - Allows one to communicate with the Lego MindStorms(R) RCX brick from a workstation through the IR tower.

libwww-perl - Modules to provide a simple and consistent programming interface to the WWW.

Lingua::Romana::Perligata - Damian Conway's paper on the module that makes it possible to write Perl programs in Latin.

MARC - A Perl module for reading, manipulating, outputting and converting bibliographic records in the Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC) format.

Module::Reloadable - Used to reload specific modules in a permanent-running environment.

MP3::Album - Perl extension to manage a music album built of mp3 files.

500 My Favorite CPAN Module - Wiki featuring user-contributed module reviews.

Net::DNS - Collection of modules that act as a Domain Name System resolver. They allows the programmer to perform DNS queries that are beyond the capabilities of gethostbyname and gethostbyaddr.

Net::ICQ2000 - Module for handling the ICQ2000 protocol.
Meta Description: [ The world's largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications ]

Net::Whois::RIPE - Object-orientated module that provides methods to query, retrieve and update RIPE-157 formated objects, from whois servers that support this format.
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Net::Z3950 - This module provides a Perl interface to the Z39.50 information retrieval protocol.

Net::Z3950::SimpleServer - Implements the server side of the Z39.50 (information retrieval) protocol.

NetCDFPerl - A Perl extension module for scientific data access via version 2 of the netCDF API.
Meta Description: [ A perl extension module for scientific data access via the netCDF API ]

Ogg::Vorbis and libao-perl - The former is an object-oriented interface to the libvorbisfile Ogg Vorbis library. The latter is an interface to the ao cross-platform audio library.

p5-IPA - Library of image processing algorithms. Based on the Prima toolkit.

Parallel::ForkManager - Object-orientated parallel processing fork manager.

Perl Beans - Implementation of the Java Beans framework in Perl.
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PerLDAP - A Perl module that allows programmers to access and manipulate LDAP directories.
Meta Description: [ LDAP projects for and in Perl ]

Perldoc.com: Core Modules - Documentation for modules that form part of the standard distribution of perl.

500 Perle4 - Binding for the Elvin 4 publish-subscribe notification/messaging service.

Perlipq - Perl extension to Linux iptables userspace queueing via libipq.

Persistent - A framework of classes that provides persistence for Perl objects.

RDFStore - API for RDF storage and maintenance.

Recent Perl Modules - Latest module uploads from the CPAN search site.

RPL - Enables parsing and executing RPL programs, providing stack and variables management routines, as well as a library of built-in primitives for flow control, list manipulation and basic calculus.

SDL - Package that provides both functional and object orient interfaces to the Simple DirectMedia Layer for Perl 5.

404 Skybound Software. - The home of SMS::Ringtone::RTTTL::Parser (a RTTTL string parser and validator) and SMS::Ringtone::RTTTL::MIDI (a RTTTL to MIDI format converter). A free web service is also available to test these modules.

SMIME - A Perl module for making smime signatures as well as basic key generation and certificate authority functions.

500 Spreadsheet::WriteExcel - Information and examples for creating Excel Spreadsheet files with Perl.

TableMap - Maps relational tables into hashes.

Test::Cmd - Provides a low-level framework for portable automated testing of executable commands and scripts.
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The Bioperl Project - A collection of Perl modules for developers of bioinformatics software.

The Perl Advent Calendar - A tutorial about a module is presented on every day of the Advent.

The Perl DateTime Project - A set of modules for dealing with today's complex time zone system, date conversion and calculating the date upon which Easter falls in a given year.

The WebFetch Project - A set of Perl5 modules that provide a framework for retrieving information from local files and/or the web.
Meta Description: [ WebFetch Software Distribution ]

VACM::Perl - Wrappers for the VACM programmer's API.

404 Weather::Com - A Perl module that provides low level OO interface to gather all weather information that is provided by weather.com.

500 WebCache::Digest and WebCache::ICP - The former is an implementation of version 5 of the Cache Digest specification. The latter implements client and server side support for the Internet Cache Protocol.

WebL-Perl - Allows access of WebL scripts from Perl.

WebService::weblogUpdates - Implements methods supported by UserLand weblogUpdates framework.

WebTools - Package to aid Web developers. Supports embedding Perl in HTML files, flat file databases, session tracking and cookies, and MySQL/MS Access.
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Win32::MSAgent - Allows to use the Microsoft Agent 2.0 OLE control in perl scripts.

404 WordNet Perl Module - An object oriented interface to WordNet 1.6 database.

Writing Apache modules with Perl and C - Home site of the book about creating Web server modules using the Apache API.

Writing Perl Modules for CPAN - Publisher's site for the book by Sam Tregar. The entire first chapter, 'CPAN', is available for free in PDF format.
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WWW::Search - A collection of Perl modules which provide an API to WWW search engines like AltaVista, Lycos, Hotbot, and WebCrawler.

WWW::SMS - Framework for sending free SMSs over the web.
Meta Description: [ The www-sms project website ]

wxPerl - Perl bindings to the wxWindows cross-platform toolkit.

X11::Fvwm - A Perl module for interfacing with the FVWM2 X11 window manager API.