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Customer council will meet twice a year led by Bob Muglia to discuss interoperability issues.

You knew it was true.

Change a name, confuse the customers.

News for Tuesday, June 13 2006

The Snappy Face Recogniser uses a 1.3 megapixel intelligent webcam to capture your facial features and log you, and only you, on to your computer.

Google's steady march into the applications business has serious long-term implications for developers and IT managers on the way software will be delivered in the not-to-distant future.

C++ complex? Say it isn't so!

I don't think so, but then again, maybe I've been affected.

Windows Live Dev is your one-stop shop for the Windows Live Platform.

Auction site to create competitor to Google Ads.

According to Microsoft's anti-malware engineering team, one in every 311 computers has some form of malware.

The popular portal MySpace launched a search engine for help-wanted ads powered by Silicon Valley company Simply Hired.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition offers essential relational database functionality in a compact footprint ideal for embedding in mobile and desktop applications including a new generation of occasionally connected dynamic applications.

Google Earth turns 4.0, quadrupling the high-resolution imagery, and adding a Linux version.

Think football is just a bunch of guys and a ball? There's actually a lot of science around "the beautiful game".

News for Monday, June 12 2006

The world's most famous corporate blogger, Robert Scoble, credited with helping to break down a siege mentality at his employer, Microsoft, confirmed on Sunday he is leaving to join a recently formed Silicon Valley internet media start-up.

Microsoft kicked off its anual customer conference for IT Pros and developers from around the world. Myself and other CP-ers are attending the show, if you see us please come up and say hello! We are the ones in the CP shirts. :-)

Check out this handy graphics communication tool while talking on skype called eazibo.

Is this the new geek "size question"?

Should you put an Easter Egg into an app before shipping? How about making sure the app works?

Don't let the hard drive hit you on the way out.

Stepping beyond the toolbar, Yahoo wants to provide their users with a full browser.

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