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

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

Does code need "beauty and elegance", or should it just work?

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.

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

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.

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.

News for Thursday, March 30 2006

Adding the Ruby scripting language allows JavaScript calls and simplifies Ajax-style programming, the open-source vendor says.

Wanna Rock? Read good code. Or is it enough?

A scramjet (Supersonic combustion ramjet) was tested by the Univerisity of Queensland. The scramjet may have reached Mach 8 during the test.

The European Commission has notified Microsoft of worries around antitrust for the upcoming Windows Vista. They are threatening to bring a new case to bear if Microsoft "includes software elements which are currently available separately".

Has Bluetooth finally "made it"? Nokia, Intel, Microsoft and others have decided to use Bluetooth to send high quality video between devices in the home using Ultra Wideband (UWB) radio technology at speeds up to 100 megabits per second.

Microsoft will be delaying permanent release of the "Eolas" fix to all ActiveX in Internet Explorer to give developers time to update their Web sites.

Want to know about Atlas (Ajax for ASP.NET), but don't want to search for information? It's all here.

Connect to Oracle databases from Visual Studio 2005 and/or .NET Framework 2.0.

Geologists in Iceland are drilling directly into the heart of a hot volcano. How hot is that?

Find out just what you'll need to run Windows Vista well, or just run. At least you'll have time to buy the new system.

News for Wednesday, March 29 2006

Hope you don't live in one.

An external user took control of the address after Google employees accidentally deleted the blog.

Should Microsoft drop some backward compatibility? Is it really to blame for "Windows slowness"?

HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are on the way, but will consumers figure the differences out?

IBM introduced a new intrusion detection technology dubbed Billy Goat that claims to be highly effective in battling worm viruses and other types of malicious IT threats, and in eliminating false security alarms.