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Learning Management System Company Intellum to Present at 2012 Node Conference

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

Learning Management System Company Intellum to Present at 2012 Node Conference

The Atlanta-based innovator in hosted LMS solutions helps improve integration, efficiency of web-based and mobile enterprise applications.

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) January 20, 2012

Intellum, Inc., the Atlanta-based learning management system company, is proud to announce that it will be presenting a paper at the Node Summit, an innovative technology conference attracting attention from major companies like Intel, Microsoft, and VMware, being held this year at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco from January 24th to the 25th.

Intellum’s Luc Castera will present a paper entitled “Helping Apps to Work Together.” The paper and presentation at the Node Conference is the result of their GroupDock project, which is focused on making enterprise-level HTML 5 applications, including Intellum’s learning management system, work together efficiently.

Intellum applied to attend the Node Summitt as an effort to share and spread its desire to remove what it sees as a “sea of hard to remember logins and patchy integrations” that keep vital HTML 5 applications from being truly effective. While Intellum focuses on expanding the effectiveness and reach of learning management systems to web-enabled and mobile devices, the company looks forward to progressive conversations and relationships with other technology leaders interested in improving the integration and efficiency of business applications.

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Tech Journal: The Next Phase of Web Design

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Tech Journal: The Next Phase of Web Design

Most website owners offer two variations of their sites – one is optimized for viewing on the desktop while the other layout is for mobile screens. The visitor’s device is roughly identified from the “user agent string” of their browser and accordingly the mobile or desktop version is served.

But there’s a little problem with that approach. Yes, a majority of people are still accessing your website from their computers and mobile phones but in recent years, web browsing has expanded far beyond these screens.

Tablets, like the iPad and Kindle Fire, have become massively popular while some mobile phones, like the Galaxy Note, have big screens so it may not be a good idea to serve them a basic stripped-down version of your mobile site.

The device orientation matters too. For instance, the iPad screen is 1,024 pixels wide but if you rotate the device from landscape to portrait mode, you are only left with 768 pixels. A page that looked reasonably good at 1,024 x 768 resolution might appear less readable at 768 x 1,024 resolution, even though it’s the same device and only the orientation has changed.

If you are using Google Analytics to measure your website traffic, go to your Analytics dashboard and open the “Devices” report under Audience -> Mobile. Set the “Secondary Dimension” in the report as “Screen Resolution” and it will give you a good indication of the different devices that people are using to view your website. The data could surprise you.

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Savvy web surfers finding ways to circumvent Wikipedia blackout

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Savvy web surfers finding ways to circumvent Wikipedia blackout

Wikipedia has imposed a 24-hour blackout on its English language website, a move that has impacted millions of global users, but some savvy web surfers are already finding ways around the problem.
The shutdown — which started at midnight Tuesday ET — is protesting two bills aimed at cracking down on online piracy, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) introduced in the House of Representatives, and the Senate version, the Protect IP Act (PIPA).

Within minutes of the blackout kicking in, suggestions of alternate free information websites proliferated online.

Social media news blog Mashable recommended numerous alternatives including Encyclopedia Britannica, written by about 100 editors and 4,000 contributors; Google Scholar, which delivers answers from professionals and universities; Quora, an information network that connects users to people with similar interests; IMDb, the internet movie database; as well as online libraries that have links to research sites such as LexisNexis.

Other options are Scholarpedia, curated by experts in their fields; Citizendium, written by contributors; and WikiTaxi for PC users.

For the diehard Wiki-fan who simply cannot do without Wikipedia, there are a even a few ways to circumvent the blackout.

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Compute: Choosing a browser? Security matters, too

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

Compute: Choosing a browser? Security matters, too

Think of your browser as your window into Internet web pages and applications. Which browser should you choose, and what security measures should you take to protect your view?

The most popular browsers are Microsoft’s Windows Internet Explorer, Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Foxfire. Internet Explorer — preinstalled on all Windows machines — dominates with 40 percent of all users. But Chrome is coming on strong, according to StatCounter, a global web analytics company. It reports that among those browsers’ latest versions, Chrome 15 edged past Internet Explorer 8 during November’s final week, taking 23.6 percent of the worldwide market compared with IE’s 23.5 percent.

People primarily try out a new browser for appearance and ease of use, but security should be a concern, too. Choosing the right one can help you surf more safely, particularly when the browser’s code is written to block functions typically exploited by virus and spyware writers.

Look for these security features:

Sandboxing. If you use tabs instead of opening another window every time you visit a new site, sandboxing isolates each tab from the rest of your system. If one tab gets infected, crashes or runs a piece of harmful code, simply closing the affected tab kills the process and leaves the other tabs — and all parts of the system — untouched. Internet Explorer and Chrome use sandboxing; Firefox does not.

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Spoon.net Browser Sandbox Lets Users Run Popular Web Browsers With No Installs

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

Spoon.net Browser Sandbox Lets Users Run Popular Web Browsers With No Installs

Major update includes support for the latest versions of all major web browsers; introduces support for mobile and pre-release browsers

Spoon.net, a Seattle-based developer of application virtualization technology, today announced a major update to its popular Browser Sandbox. The Spoon.net Browser Sandbox allows multiple versions of browsers to run simultaneously with no installs. The latest version of the Browser Sandbox adds support for the latest versions of all major web browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera. In addition, Spoon.net now supports testing of mobile browsers such as Firefox Mobile and Opera Mobile as well as pre-release browsers such as Firefox 10 Beta, Firefox Aurora, and Chrome 17.

The Spoon.net Browser Sandbox is available online at http://spoon.net/browsers .

“The Browser Sandbox is a great resource for web developers and enterprises that need to test or deploy multiple versions of current, beta, or legacy web browsers without the problems associated with installing browsers on their desktops or maintaining cumbersome virtual machines,” said Kenji Obata, founder and chief executive officer of Spoon.net. “The Browser Sandbox is a powerful demonstration of Spoon.net’s unique application virtualization technologies.”

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