As the programmer, you probably approach a script thinking how it should be used. This is not the same as to how it will be used, either accidentally or on purpose. Try to break your site to see what happens.Do bad things, do the wrong thing. Have other people try to break it, too (its normally easy to find such volunteers).

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Twitter's not going to make its money selling ads. How will they make it big? Peer-to-peer mobile payments.

Twitter users are already trained in this important action. Every time a Twitterer uses the “@,” “d” or even “#” to direct Twitter or annotate the messages it sends through the system,…

One of the best and the most widely used graphics tool for linux is GIMP , the GNU Image Manipulation Program. This GIMP is a full featured image editing program with many menus, tools and filters.

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Jebaras creation, Citysense, uses advanced machine learning techniques to number crunch vast amounts of data emanating from thousands of cell-phones, GPS-equipped cabs and other data devices to paint live pictures of where people are gathering. Fed to websites such as Google or Yelp, the data reveals whats happening at any location.

Gaining access to the hottest locales with Citysense involves a trade off for users: information on their own whereabouts is also fed into the system. While all information gathered is anonymous, the data could be a goldmine for marketers and…

MobiComp is a mobile application company that offers backup and restore features, a social networking tool, and a news ticker for mobile phones. Microsoft hopes to integrate the company’s offerings into Windows Mobile and Windows Live services. Eight-year-old MobiComp offers three main mobile products

If Microsoft wants sales to grow by 50 percent, the company needs to work hard to integrate these offerings into Windows Mobile 7, which is expected to arrive in either the first or second quarter of 2009. Version 6.1, released in early April, was…

Chicago-based company LimitNone is claiming Google’s partnership with them, as a third party developer brought on to enhance Google products, went awry when they decided to just steal the small software company’s technology. This technology was rolled into a Google Apps product that basically allows users to migrate their MS Outlook email and cont

This seems like a distinct possiblity and is a common occurance in big enterprise business but who knows. He said, she said… It all will be settled eventually and cost Google a bit, simply because they can be sued. A cool $1B though? I doubt…

Nokia today announced it has launched a cash offer to acquire all of the shares of Symbian Limited that Nokia does not already own, at a price of EUR 3.647 per share. The net cash outlay from Nokia to purchase the approximately 52% of Symbian Limited shares it does not already own will be approximately EUR 264 million.

Except open-sourcing Symbian will occur over two years, while the Android SDK is already available and with significant participation/commitment. Over that period, Symbian's current market share will have little effect — everyone…

One of the biggest revelations at WWDC was quietly unveiled in a session on Friday morning entitled “Building Native Look-and-Feel Web Applications Using SproutCore.” While Apple maintained high security during the entire NDA-sealed WWDC session, the secret of SproutCore is out because it is an open source project and people can’t stop talking abou

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Open-source developers targeting the mobile space need to learn business rules including digital rights management, Nokia’s software chief has claimed. Speaking at the Handsets World conference in Berlin on Tuesday, Dr Ari Jaaksi told delegates that the open-source community needed to be ‘educated’ in the way the mobile industry currently works, be

In his speech, Jaaksi detailed some of the lessons Nokia had learned in its work with the Maemo developer community, primarily the need to avoid 'forking' code: “Don't make your own version,” he said. “The original…

Steve Wozniak is much more than a throbbing brain with a tie. He knows that the quickest way to a girl’s heart is to jailbreak her iPhone… on TV.

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No phone maker today is poised to take advantage of the software chinks?however small?in the iPhone’s armor. Companies like BlackBerry may have excelled at direct, no-frills interfaces, but with the flood of new iPhone applications due to arrive July 11, it will take a true software giant to mount any sort of defense. A giant like Google.

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During the Worldwide Developer Conference Keynote today, Apple previewed OS 10.6 “Snow Leopard.” True to rumors, the release will focus on performance rather than new features, however technologies included include “Grand Central” for multi-core CPUs, OpenCL for processing on GPUs (like CUDA), QuickTime X, and Exchange 2007 support in the OS.

?We have delivered more than a thousand new features to OS X in just seven years and Snow Leopard lays the foundation for thousands more,' said Bertrand Serlet, Apple?s senior vice president of Software Engineering. ?In our continued effort to…

You might have a Mac at home, a PC at work, and an iPhone or iPod touch. The challenge is keeping multiple devices always in sync. Enterprises can use a server like Exchange. For everyone else, now there's MobileMe.