News for Friday, April 7 2006

Industry News

Apple Deigns To Let Macs Boot Up With Windows

Apple and Microsoft playing nice. I feel like I am in the land Oz.
Source: Washington Post

Google upgrades toolbar for Firefox

Now with suggestions, autocorrect and "Safe Browsing" support. Oh, yes, of course it's Beta.
Source: InfoWorld

MSN search down for hours

"What does this button do?"
Source: InfoWorld

Britannica attacks Nature in newspaper ads

Is Wikipedia as accurate as The Encyclopedia Britannica? Nature says "yes", but Britannica would like to differ.
Source: Ars Technica

Developer News

Microsoft Internet Explorer ActiveX Update May Break Internet Applications

If you use the Internet Explorer browser, and in fact, even if you just use Microsoft Windows, your favorite websites, business applications, and toolbars could stop working beginning April 11th when a non-security update is installed.
Source: Blogcritics.org

Microsoft to extend SQL Server Mobile to all versions of Windows

SQL Server Mobile, rebranded as SQL Server Everywhere, will target the embedded database space. Free 2MB download, coming later this year.
Source: ComputerWorld

Interesting Facts About Domain Names

Which .COM names are still available? Seems there are still a few good ones out there, like eiyk.com. Here's an analysis.
Source: Yafla

Database experiment reveals Darwin's inspiration

Researchers have used SQL Server 2005 to prove that Darwin's professor at Cambridge was already onto the whole "variation within a species" thing. Maybe we might have to rewrite a few textbooks?
Source: InfoWorld

Hot Threads

Considering my own Web Server

Ah, they grow up so fast, then move out on their own.
Source: The Code Project

Lady Developers

"Have you ever, you know, coded with a lady?"
Source: The Code Project