News Items

A new Corning development could lead to cheaper LCD screens made without the use of arsenic.

Find out what's new in Office 2007, and sign up for the Beta. You know you want to.

Thinking about Team System, but think you're too "agile"? Now you can use both with this scrum add-in.

If you're using SQL Reporting Services, these report packs will make your reporting on IIS, Great Plains, Sharepoint and other services easier.

Latest release of Firebug, an excellent JavaScript debugging tool for Firefox.

News for Tuesday, March 28 2006

Having created one of the first personal computers and the graphical mouse-and-menu interface most PCs now use, it is now reshaping the music industry with the iPod and iTunes.

At its Convergence conference here this weekend (and through March 28), Microsoft offered a detailed look at the next version of Dynamics AX, formerly known as Axapta, and announced a new partner tool, Rapid Implementation Methodology for Dynamics NAV, formerly Navision.

Upcoming "Publish" feature for ASP.NET. Now with incremental deploy!

Latest release of "Business Process Management" software now on MSDN Universal downloads, and heading to manufacturers.

Microsoft has joined the group that would vote to standardize Open Document Format (ODF), a competitor to their own Open XML used by the next version of Office.

Scientists have created a circuit that combines semiconductor technology with brain cells, allowing the two to communicate.

How much does it cost to live in London?

See the bugs, see the bugs bashed (hopefully).

Liquid-crystalline polymers look to be a contender to replace silicon in computer and monitor parts.

Google has added a number of internal talks to their Google Video service. Topics range from "Opportunities for pharmacogenomics" to "Debugging backwards in time".

News for Monday, March 27 2006

Businesses still need to patched the latest IE Flaw.

Video games make you smarter? Not sure if I am believing that one yet.

Free is always good.

A new study of Europeans show that Germans have the highest average IQ at 107. Discuss.

Grabbing a few bytes off of an unsecured WiFi connection can cost you in Illinois.

After managing the response to Slammer, MyDoom and others, Mike Nash is taking a sabbatical from his role as head of the Security Technology Unity.

Atlas (the Ajax implementation from the ASP.NET team) has support for plugging maps into your applications. See how easy it is with this sample.