News for Tuesday, March 07 2006

Industry News

Mobile and Embedded DevCon 2006

Attend Mobile & Embedded DevCon 2006 (May 8-11 in Las Vegas) and get the latest on building and bringing to market the next wave of devices, applications, content, and services for the Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded platforms. (Read More)
Source: Microsoft

More US Gov't Workers Telecommuting.

Forty-three percent of U.S. government employees sometimes telecommute instead of driving into the office, up from 19 percent a year ago. I wonder if that includes workers at the DMV? (Read More)
Source: InfoWorld

Survey: More US Gov't Workers Telecommuting

Forty-three percent of U.S. government employees sometimes telecommute instead of driving into the office, up from 19 percent a year ago. I wonder if that includes workers at the DMV? (Read More)
Source: InfoWorld

Complexity causes 50% of product returns

Half of all malfunctioning products returned to stores by consumers are in full working order, but customers can't figure out how to operate the devices, says a new study. K.I.S.S. (Read More)
Source: ComputerWorld

Developer News

Mac OS X Web Server Security Competition Over in Six Hours

A developer who challenged people to "rm my Mac" was surprised when it took less than 6 hours for the site to be defaced. The hacker only worked on it for 30 minutes. (Read More)
Source: Ars Technica

There's Nothing Small About SmallTalk

I've often thought that a language's name was its biggest hurdle. They should have called it CTalk. (Read More)
Source: eWeek

Hot Threads

Wiki Recommendations

Seeking software for code collaboration. (Read More)
Source: The Code Project

xacc.ide-0.1.3 released

Latest release of Leppie's IDE for .NET development. (Read More)
Source: The Code Project