News for Friday, March 31 2006

Industry News

Microsoft has not done enough to meet antitrust demands: EU

Microsoft, under pressure, could face huge fines for not meeting anti-trust demands made by the EU in 2004.
Source: XINHUA online

Ads to appear on Google Local maps

Google will be adding graphical adverts to their Google Local mapping service.
Source: InfoWorld

Microsoft officially joins e-mail managed services fray

Want someone else to take care of your mail server? Microsoft would like to, with new hosted Exchange services: Exchange Hosted Filtering, Exchange Hosted Encryption, Exchange Hosted Archive and Exchange Hosted Continuity.
Source: InfoWorld

The Beatles in court (again) with Apple

Apple vs. Apple.
Source: ZDNet

Developer News

Mobile Domains For Sale in May

Domains in the new .mobi top-level domain will go on sale in May, according to registar Mobile Top Level Domain (mTLD). Applicants should ensure their sites look good on cell phone screens.
Source: TechWeb

Download Free C# Code Snippet Libraries

Get the full set of Visual Studio 2005 C# Code Snippets for to have reusable, task-oriented blocks of code you can easily paste into your development projects.
Source: MSDN

Life waxes and wanes with bobbing of the Solar System

Could the movement of the solar system through the galactic arms have caused mass extinctions in Earth's past?
Source: New Scientist

Hot Threads

Code Like a Girl

Does code need "beauty and elegance", or should it just work?
Source: The Code Project

Downlevel Browsers

Why use a pre-NS3/IE4 browser? Well, my copy of Mosaic ain't broke...
Source: The Code Project