Extended Validation SSL Certificates. Extended Validation (EV) is a new standard in SSL certificates. This guide explains the needs which drove the development of this standard and how it addresses contemporary security challenges. It also delves into the integration of EV certificates into new high security browsers such as Microsoft's IE7. More info

Telerik has released RadControls Q3 2007. The latest volume includes updates for all product lines for Web and desktop presentation layer development, as well as a new release of Telerik Reporting and a preview of Telerik's RIA controls for Silverlight 1.1/2.0. Q3 introduces new controls and features across all product lines. Along with functional updates, the Q3 release introduces Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 compatibility. More info

Shipped as a part of Microsoft Visual Studio, SourceSafe sells more than $40 million (US) per year (Source: IDC) and is a very popular version control program for Windows developers. As the teams go distributed and cross-platform, the limitations of SourceSafe rise to the surface. In fact, there has been a lot of negative press about the drawbacks of SourceSafe. More info

Now it's being sued by the University of Wisconsin at Madison for patent infringement. The school's patent management organization, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), the world's first university-based technology transfer office, established in 1925, filed suit the other day in Wisconsin's district court saying the Core 2 Duo and the so-called Core micro architecture tread on one of its patents. Naturally it wants damages. More info

During the development of Windows Vista, several key investments were made to vastly improve overall quality, security, and reliability from previous versions of Windows. The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista addresses areas of Visual Studio impacted by these Windows Vista enhancements. More info

This walkthrough will demonstrate how to create a simple Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service and how to use that service from a Windows client application. More info

'Which RIA platform to choose? Whichever one can deliver the best functionality combined with industrial-strength reliability, performance, and scalability will win the race.' That, in the view of Bert Halstead, is the long and the short of it. And many of his fellow executives in the Rich Internet Applications business agreee. More info

On Monday Rupert Murdoch was reported as assuring the financial press that News Corporation would not be making a counter-bid for Yahoo! but yesterday came new reports that discussions are taking place about integrating Yahoo! with News Corp's Internet assets. The idea, according to TechCrunch, would be to fold Fox Interactive Media, which includes MySpace, into Yahoo! along with a cash investment by News Corp. and a private equity fund, to create an entity with nearly 150 billion monthly page views. More info

Usually, in a rich internet application (RIA), a user with a registered account can do two different logins from two different workstations and can maintain two concurrent sessions opened. In some applications we want to limit the users to one session per account, so we have to take countermeasures. More info

Microsoft's acquisitions guy, corporate VP of corporate development Bruce Jaffe, also responsible for strategic investments and joint ventures - stuff like Microsoft's $6 billion aQuantitive acquisition and its $240 million Facebook investment - will be leaving the company at the end of February. Valleywag thinks he might start his own company in Silicon Valley. More info