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Technology: How Smart can You Make Your Data?

By Dick Weisinger

Casino’s have long been leaders in collecting massive amounts of details about their customers. Casinos like MGM Mirage and Harrah’s Entertainment keep multi-terabyte databases on millions of their customers, tracking all sorts of minutiae to help them personalize customer incentives,…

Search: Wales of Wikipedia Battles Google with Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

Over this past year’s Christmas and New Year’s celebrations James Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, announced that ‘Search is Broken‘, referring to Internet search options like Google, Yahoo! and MSN. (Wales also says that his own creation Wikipedia has spun out…

Technology: Problem Solved. Game Over.

By Dick Weisinger

News@Nature ran a story about how a group at the University of Alberta, Canada, led by Jonathan Schaeffer, has created a computer program called Chinook that ‘solves’ the game of checkers. No matter how good of a game you can…

Technology: SAML for Secure Web Transactions and Enterprise Identity Management

By Dick Weisinger

The Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is a protocol that allows authentication and authorization between security domains. One domain acts as an identity provider and the other as the consumer. Transaction packets are represented in XML. The SAML specification was…

Technology: Rev up your Java Engines

By Dick Weisinger

Since Formtek | Orion’s Java-based engine is at the heart of our Orion 5 technology, we’re always interested in developments happening on the Java platform, like differences in Oracle, JBoss, WebLogic, and IBM’s WebSphere application servers. But now there’s Java…