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News for Tuesday, April 18 2006

Source: CodeProject     Posted by Chris Maunder    Tuesday, April 18, 2006 8:00am    
News for Tuesday, April 18 2006

Industry News

Contractors prosper as tech job market thrives

Tech job postings have risen 26.3 percent in the last year, and contract positions have risen even faster, to 30.3%.
Source: eWeek

Microsoft patch causes HP crashes

Users of Hewlett-Packard printers, scanners and cameras may be experiencing some problems after installing Microsoft's latest round of security patches. Ooops.
Source: InfoWorld

China outlaws unlicensed e-mail servers

In an attempt to clamp down on spam, China has made it illegal to host your own e-mail servers. If you outlaw SMTP will only outlaws use SMTP?
Source: vnunet.com

Dell Raises its Mobile Game

Dell announced the newest member of its XPS gaming family this morning, the XPS m1710 gaming notebook. Very cool for gamers.
Source: Wired

Developer News

Open-source project aims to out-park Microsoft

In an attempt to boost Apache numbers, OpenSourceParking.com will provide free "parking" for unused domain names.
Source: InfoWorld

MSDN search now powered by MSN

MSDN and Technet have replaced their old search engine with a new one. Give it a test drive now, and see what you find.
Source: MSDN

Sybase releases PowerBuilder 10.5

PowerBuilder 10.5 features several functionality enhancements and delivers improvements to the Sybase DataWindow data access, presentation and manipulation tool.
Source: eWeek

Mac Crash Different

This is a video you all have to see.
Source: YouTube

Hot Threads

How worthwhile is Microsoft certification?

To MCP or not to MCP, that is the question.
Source: The Code Project

Da Vinci Code Quest on Google

US, UK and Australian folk can participate in a promotional contest for the upcoming Da Vinci Code movie. The rest of us can break the codes for the sheer joy of it.
Source: The Code Project



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