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All your virtualization in one place, and for one fine price.

In a case of the "cobbler's children", a Trend Micro employee forgot to run his company's antivirus software on his computer, leading to the uploading of company data to a P2P network.

The strongest hair! The youngest sumo wrestler! The longest pencil! In Malaysia, making your mark - any mark - is a matter of national pride.

Switching to Universal Binaries is no small task according at least one engineer at Adobe. The maturity of XCode and other problems stand in the way of migrating big apps to the new Mac chips.

Municipal wireless vendor and a Cisco-backed nonprofit also are vying for the project.

News for Monday, April 3 2006

Two of the world's largest communications suppliers have agreed to merge, creating a USD25 billion company.

Now you will have something else to do with your AS/400, as Zend has ported PHP to run on the popular IBM computer line.

Where did that itty-bitty incrementing iterator come from?

eBay will be allowed to continue to use its "Buy it Now" links after the US Patent Office upheld an earlier decision against patent holder MerchExchange.

Canada becomes one of the first countries where WiMAX is available. The high-speed wireless service (up to 3Mbps) will be targeted at urban business travellers and rural users.

Researchers in the US and Japan have confirmed that neutrinos seem to change into other particles, implying they have mass. Could they be the source of the missing mass of the Universe?

Despite the availability of the OS now scheduled for early 2007, computers bearing the logo "Windows Vista Capable" should be on shelves in the next few months. Your mileage will vary.

The Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library can be used to provide comprehensive protection to Web-based applications against Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks.

"Getting to Done" begins with "What do I need to do?"

News for Friday, March 31 2006

Apple vs. Apple.

Microsoft, under pressure, could face huge fines for not meeting anti-trust demands made by the EU in 2004.

Google will be adding graphical adverts to their Google Local mapping service.

Why use a pre-NS3/IE4 browser? Well, my copy of Mosaic ain't broke...

Does code need "beauty and elegance", or should it just work?

Want someone else to take care of your mail server? Microsoft would like to, with new hosted Exchange services: Exchange Hosted Filtering, Exchange Hosted Encryption, Exchange Hosted Archive and Exchange Hosted Continuity.

Could the movement of the solar system through the galactic arms have caused mass extinctions in Earth's past?

Domains in the new .mobi top-level domain will go on sale in May, according to registar Mobile Top Level Domain (mTLD). Applicants should ensure their sites look good on cell phone screens.