News for Wednesday, March 08 2006

Industry News

Microsoft acquires apps migration company

My guess is that they think a lot of people will be buying new computers soon. Wonder why? (Read More)
Source: ComputerWorld

Google Gaffe II

In a filing Tuesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Google admitted it mistakenly posted comments not meant for general release that offered a peek at the company’s financial self-portrait. Funny, I feel like we have heard this story before... (Read More)
Source: Red Herring

T-Mobile to stream 20 World Cup soccer games

In addition to the live matches, T-Mobile International will offer highlights of all 64 games, expert discussions, and other information. Goooooooooooooooal! (Read More)
Source: InfoWorld

Expo Live

Microsoft enters the classified ad space (only a few US cities currently). Will they give CraigsList a run for people's money? (Read More)
Source: Microsoft

Developer News

Microsoft debuts Web-to-PC clipboard

At the ETech conference, Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie demonstrated "Live Clipboard", a technology that would allow data (not just text) to be copied between Web sites and computers. (Read More)
Source: Reuters

Build Your Own PVR, Then Trash It

Plummeting storage costs and the availability of special hardware have finally made it cheap and easy to shrug off the shackles of TiVo and build your own personal video recorder out of an old PC. Watch out Comcast & Direct TV. (Read More)
Source: Wired

Oasis to push OpenDocument adoption

OASIS ODF Adoption Committee will work on promoting OpenDocument implementations among industries and end-users. They have also submitted the format to ISO for standardization. (Read More)
Source: InfoWorld

Hot Threads

Unit Testing Frameworks

Test twice, code once (or something like that). What's a good unit testing framework for C++? (Read More)
Source: The Code Project

Storage Technology of the Future

Just how long do CDs last, and will those holographic memory devices ever show up? (Read More)
Source: The Code Project