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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?

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?

Attend Mobile & Embedded DevCon 2006 (May 8-11 in Las Vegas) and get the latest on building and bringing to market the next wave of devices, applications, content, and services for the Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded platforms.

A developer who challenged people to "rm my Mac" was surprised when it took less than 6 hours for the site to be defaced. The hacker only worked on it for 30 minutes.

I've often thought that a language's name was its biggest hurdle. They should have called it CTalk.

News for Monday, March 06 2006

Open AIM aims to get external developers to add new features to the #1 IM program.

Flash drive survives the wash. Now, try it with a hard drive...

Commercials or $1.99? Soon you'll have a choice for downloading television shows.

The world is safe again for the millions of BlackBerry-wielding thumbs.

An Earth-sized storm on Jupiter that has been raging since 2000 turns red, giving the giant planet not-so-Great Red Spot.

This SDK includes the initial release of the Cross-Platfrom Audio Content Tool (XACT), plus new Managed DirectX 2.0 beta libraries, an updated Direct3D 10 Preview.

Is OO following the path of the dodo? Discuss.

News for Friday, March 03 2006

Find out what else happened on your birthday, anniversary or other date from history.

"Open source becomes successful when major industrial corporations invest heavily in that open source product." Someone better tell Linus.

The best Firefox extensions for show and tell.