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Is one better than the other? Let's all say it together, "It depends".

XAML is likely going to be important in many future development projects.

Would you share your personal information or fingerprints with a company to make it easier to log on? A new study says so, it must be true.

The ActiveX Analyzer Tool is designed to scan for and identify object, applet, and embed tags in code. These tags will be affected when your clients apply the "Eolas" fix to Internet Explorer.

Could network operators begin to charge some companies more to provide content? The US government seems to be saying, "yes".

With Jonathan Schwartz now in charge of Sun, will Java be put out in the open? Does it matter?

Actually some good news for a change.

News for Friday, April 28 2006

Google SketchUp helps create models of a variety of items--including houses, sheds, decks, home additions, and woodworking projects.

Yahoo has been cited in a Chinese court decision to jail a dissident internet writer for 10 years for subversion in 2003 -- the fourth such case to surface implicating the U.S. Internet giant.

The CSS Friendly Adapters are a set of sample adapters, documentations, and a sample Web site that show how to take advantage of the ASP.NET 2.0 control adapter architecture to control the rendering output of controls.

The "To be or not to be" of computerdom.

During his two-year quest to find out if UFOs exist, Gary McKinnon broke into computers at the Pentagon, NASA and several military bases.

Microsoft plans to turn off half the firewall in Windows Vista when the new operating system ships later this year because it doesn't think most users need all the firewall's functionality or can handle its management.

Microsoft Corp. says it's nearly done with its deployment of Windows Live ID, the authentication service that will replace Passport.

Only one of four electronics boxes that could fail on Discovery and destroy the docked orbiter and the International Space Station will be replaced before the shuttle flies to the outpost in July.

How Microsoft IT Defends Against Spam, Viruses, and E-Mail Attacks Detailed discussion on how Microsoft IT manages the large quantities of unwanted e-mail (a.k.a. spam) and malware-infected messages in its inbound Internet e-mail traffic.

Monad, er MSH, er Powershell wants to be your new command prompt in Windows Vista.

News for Thursday, April 27 2006

Microsoft has expanded its anti-piracy efforts by unveiling a tool that puts nag messages on the screens of computers running bogus copies of Windows.

What are sci-fi directors going to do?

Lazy is not the right word here...these cool gadgets are for those who are time efficient. :-)

Yahoo Inc. has released in beta software that can turn a PC into a digital video recorder capable of playing and recording video found through Yahoo search.