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Happy Pi day (3/14)! Don't forget to draw a circle, or memorize a few dozen digits to celebrate.

Step 1: Build something cool with one of the Express Editions Step 2: ??? Step 3: Win $10,000US

Developers without source control are like cars without bumpers. Everything is fine until you run into something.

News for Monday, March 13 2006

Great resource for your next drive on the red planet.

Google Inc.'s shares fell to their lowest levels in 4-1/2 months on Friday as analysts bemoaned recent communication miscues and its refusal to be more open about its finances. Do no evil, say no evil?

An error in McAfee's virus definition file released Friday morning caused the company's consumer and enterprise antivirus products to flag Microsoft's Excel, as well as other applications on users' PCs, as a virus called W95/CTX.

Criminals wielding counterfeit debit cards and stolen PINs are rampaging across bank accounts across the US.

Some of the uber-sexy Razr cell-phone are prone to dropping calls and restarting without good cause. Replacement phones are waiting, and Motorola is working on a fix.

Oracle Corp. is due to make its SQL Developer tool generally available Monday. Formerly known as Project Raptor, the free software will be Oracle's first visual database development tool.

Your next television set or monitor could be powered by new surface-conduction electron-emitter display technology from Toshiba and Canon. Will it make the plots any brighter?

The latest pre-release version of Expression Interactive Designer (nee Sparkle) is now available. You will have to have the February CTP of WinFx installed to use it, however.

Fuel cells aren't just for cars and buses now, soon they'll be powering your laptops.

News for Friday, March 10 2006

Enterprises that upgrade to the BlackBerry Enterprise Server v4.1 can allow mobile Blackberry users to exchange instant messages with users of Microsoft Windows Messenger, Live Communications Server 2005 and IBM Lotus Sametime systems, the RIM said.

Skype for Business, aimed at small companies with fewer than 10 employees, wants to be the new PBX.

Faster or smaller? GCC or VC++? Your mileage will vary.

Debut of the latest and greatest search engine, so they say...

Slightly biased view of salaries and the review system at Microsoft, but still an interesting insight.

The Sun Student Connection is reaching out to students with developer resources, contests and software.

The Cassini probe has photographed geyser-like activity on Saturn's moon Enceladus, leading to speculation about possible life on the distant moon.

What's sitting under your lovely Ajax/WPF/MFC/VB front end? Likely a database. Don't make these mistakes when working with them.

Managed Spy, Using Templates and Generics together, and many more.

Google scoops up Web-based word processor Writely.