News Items

News for Thursday, March 09 2006

We're not trading privacy for security; we're giving up privacy and getting no security in return.

Calling all C# developers, this book is a must have.

Foods may affect the brain as well as the body.

Novell wants everyone on board the SLED (Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10). How will it fare against Windows Vista? (or Ubuntu? or Red Hat? Or XP?)

Adds better support for collecting, organizing and sharing Web content to the Windows Live Toolbar.

Disconnect that cable; now you can subscribe to watch your favourite shows via iTunes (for only US$10/month per show.)

More features, and shinier too!

What features would you like to see in the next version of Visual Studio?

News for Wednesday, March 08 2006

Just how long do CDs last, and will those holographic memory devices ever show up?

Test twice, code once (or something like that). What's a good unit testing framework for C++?

In a filing Tuesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Google admitted it mistakenly posted comments not meant for general release that offered a peek at the company’s financial self-portrait. Funny, I feel like we have heard this story before...

Plummeting storage costs and the availability of special hardware have finally made it cheap and easy to shrug off the shackles of TiVo and build your own personal video recorder out of an old PC. Watch out Comcast & Direct TV.

Microsoft enters the classified ad space (only a few US cities currently). Will they give CraigsList a run for people's money?

In addition to the live matches, T-Mobile International will offer highlights of all 64 games, expert discussions, and other information. Goooooooooooooooal!

My guess is that they think a lot of people will be buying new computers soon. Wonder why?

OASIS ODF Adoption Committee will work on promoting OpenDocument implementations among industries and end-users. They have also submitted the format to ISO for standardization.

At the ETech conference, Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie demonstrated "Live Clipboard", a technology that would allow data (not just text) to be copied between Web sites and computers.

News for Tuesday, March 07 2006

Latest release of Leppie's IDE for .NET development.

Seeking software for code collaboration.

Half of all malfunctioning products returned to stores by consumers are in full working order, but customers can't figure out how to operate the devices, says a new study. K.I.S.S.

Forty-three percent of U.S. government employees sometimes telecommute instead of driving into the office, up from 19 percent a year ago. I wonder if that includes workers at the DMV?