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Sep 10, 2008
Sep 8, 2008
Mosaic -- The First Global Web Browser !!!
Mosaic was the first popular Web browser, and greatly helped spread use and knowledge of the web across the world.
In 1992, Joseph Hardin and Dave Thompson worked at the NCSA (National Center for Supercomputer Applications), a research institute at the University of Illinois. When they heard about Tim Berners-Lee's work, they downloaded the ViolaWWW browser, and then demonstrated the web to NCSA's Software Design Group by connecting to the web server at CERN over the Internet. The group was duly impressed.
Two students from the group, Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, began work on a browser version for X-Windows on Unix computers, first released as version 0.5 on January 23, 1993. His release message was forwarded to the newsgroups by Berners-Lee six days later, seeding subsequent redistribution and wider awareness. Bina provided expert coding support. Andreessen provided excellent customer support, monitoring the newsgroups continuously to ensure that they knew about and could fix any bugs and make desired enhancements.
A version of Mosaic for the Macintosh was developed by Aleks Totic and released a few months later, making Mosaic the first browser with cross-platform support.
One of the NCSA's missions is to aid scientific research by producing noncommercial software, giving Hardin and Thompson a ready-made vehicle to set up a funded project to develop Mosaic as a free, publicly available browser, managed by Hardin, and with Andreessen as the software lead.
Mosaic built on Berners-Lee's server, and provided support for graphics, sound, and video clips. An early version introduced forms support, enabling many powerful new uses and applications. Innovations with use of bookmarks and history files were added. Mosaic quickly became the most popular web browser, helping accelerate the growth in web use even more.
In August, 1994, NCSA assigned all commercial rights to Mosaic to Spyglass, Inc. Spyglass subsequently licensed their technology to several other companies, including Microsoft for use in Internet Explorer.
The NCSA stopped developing Mosaic in January 1997, since Netscape and Microsoft began to bring large development teams to bear on development of their own browsers.
Sep 6, 2008
Liquid Machines Adds ERM to MS Vista
At the 2008 RSA Conference, Liquid Machines today unveiled Document Control 7.0, a major release of its flagship enterprise rights management (ERM) software. This new release extends Liquid Machines’ ERM solution to the industry’s most current applications, operating systems and computing architectures, while adding a litany of features and benefits for customers in markets such as financial services, manufacturing, chemical and energy, life sciences, legal and government agencies.
Liquid Machines Document Control 7.0 persistently controls access to and usage of electronic files regardless of where they exist without changing the way users work. Built with support for Microsoft Rights Management Services (RMS), customers use Liquid Machines to secure and control their most critical information, including intellectual property, executive and board communications, customer data, and human resources information, while enabling secure collaboration and strict adherence to regulatory compliance.
“With this new release, our customers broaden their information protection globally across the world’s leading applications, operating systems and hardware,” said Michael Ruffolo, Liquid Machines CEO. “With its unprecedented automatic protection and administrative power, global customers will benefit from the new international support, streamlined deployment options, enhanced usability features and flexible management of information policies on Microsoft Vista and Office 2007.”
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