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More Vista Delays Would Sell 1 Million More PCs Gartner reports that Microsoft Corp. could help sell an additional million machines if it delayed releasing Windows Vista until July 2007. Wow, think of how many machines they'd sell if it never ships!	Industry News	TechWeb	14 Apr 2006	726
Firefox update offers security fixes Firefox adds a few "security and stability" fixes, and Intel Mac support in version 1.5.0.2.	Developer News	ComputerWorld	14 Apr 2006	305
Search users "stop at page three" 62% click a link on the first page, but only about 10% will keep looking past page 3.	Developer News	BBC	14 Apr 2006	382
Web app hack incidents are on the rise More hackers are targeting Web apps like Sourceforge, MySpace.com as networks become more secure. Their target? Your information.	Developer News	InformationWeek	14 Apr 2006	537
New job .. skill or domain? Should you master a programming language, or spend time learning domain skills like finance or telecommunications? Yes.	Hot Threads	The Code Project	14 Apr 2006	254
Win98 / Me to leave the building... I really want to be sad about this, but I can't stop cheering.	Hot Threads	The Code Project	14 Apr 2006	207
News for Thursday, April 13 2006 News for Thursday, April 13 2006	Site News	CodeProject	13 Apr 2006	195
Rice Scientists Attach Motor To Single-molecule Car In follow-on work to last year's groundbreaking invention of the world's first single-molecule car, chemists at Rice University have produced the first motorized version of their tiny nanocar.	Developer News	Science Daily	13 Apr 2006	829
Vista won't show fancy side to pirates Windows Vista plans to offer you spiffy new graphics, as long as you're not a pirate.	Industry News	ZDNet	13 Apr 2006	1,976
Oracle to buy Portal Software The checks keep flying out of the database vendor.	Industry News	InfoWorld	13 Apr 2006	369
Google unveils Web-based calendar app Integrated with GMail and full of Google Beta goodness. Supports iCal or XML for integration.	Industry News	News.com	13 Apr 2006	1,127
Students face off in programming contest Russia's Saratov State University won this year's ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, and none of the questions were asked in the Lounge (yet).	Developer News	Yahoo News	13 Apr 2006	591
People don't want to pay for Public Wi-Fi From the latest issue of the journal, "Duh": A growing number of people are using public Wi-Fi, but the majority are unwilling to pay for the wireless Internet service.	Industry News	TechWeb	13 Apr 2006	485
Microsoft posts, then pulls Vista Guide It "wasn't quite ready for public consumption", so the 313 page guide posted to a partner site was removed.	Developer News	TechWeb	13 Apr 2006	367
Developers fast to fix open-source bugs More than 900 flaws were repaired in two weeks, as a result, some of the software is now entirely bug free. Wow. That's just amazing, isn't it?	Developer News	ZDNet	13 Apr 2006	873
"Atlas" Control Toolkit Great set of controls for "Atlas".	Hot Threads	The Code Project	13 Apr 2006	251
Naming conventions in .NET It's always one way, unless it isn't.	Hot Threads	The Code Project	13 Apr 2006	190
Microsoft reveals answer to Google Scholar Microsoft has released an English-language beta version of Windows Live Academic Search, a service for searching academic journals.	Industry News	ZDNet	12 Apr 2006	572
Squatters Snap Up All Idol Names I know you all secretly watch American Idol.	Developer News	Wired	12 Apr 2006	457
China to toughen stance on software piracy China, long a major site of software piracy, will open infringement reporting centers, and begin to crack down on companies selling computers preloading illegal software.	Industry News	InfoWorld	12 Apr 2006	210
Book recommendations Good SF isn't hard to find when you ask the right people.	Hot Threads	The Code Project	12 Apr 2006	282
Words from the Woz What does Apple's "other Steve" think of personal computers now?	Industry News	NW Source	12 Apr 2006	823
Microsoft releases critical Internet Explorer patch It's "That Tuesday". Time to patch your XP.	Developer News	ComputerWorld	12 Apr 2006	695
Windows Live Academic Search your favourite computer science, electrical engineering and physics journals (more to come later).	Developer News	Microsoft	12 Apr 2006	474