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Happy Friday!

THESE shoes are made for walking – and so much more.

New Microsoft site promoting the "architectural perspective". The video alone is worth the visit.

The US State Department will disconnect 900 new Chinese-made computers from its most top secret network for fear that they may have been fitted with spying equipment.

Maybe it will be late, after all.

US Judiciary Committee passes the "Net Neutrality" bill, only the rest of the US government and lobbyists stand in the way now.

The Mozilla Foundation is looking at ways that it can help pay some of the volunteer developers that craft Firefox and Thunderbird.

They think they know how, now comes the tricky part: making the metamaterials needed to create it.

Hackers could take control of the machine through the software. Would it be better to let the viruses in?

The first member of a revitalized series of spaceborne weather watchers was shepherded into the high frontier by a Delta 4 rocket in a marathon Wednesday evening launch, giving American meteorologists a sophisticated new tool to warn against dangerous severe storms. Hope this one works.

You'll find the puzzles in The Da Vinci Code game to be intricate and challenging. If you have recently sustained a major head injury.

The two companies will share technologies, and combine forces to battle Google, Microsoft.

"If civil engineers built bridges in the same fashion in which software developers write code, people would face the 'blue bridge of death' every morning going to work."

Will people move to Windows Media Photo, or stick with JPEG (or another of the billion graphics formats)?

Is it fair for your employer to have you train newer employees? Yes.

Protect your beta, with a beta anti-virus app. You never know what Vista viruses might be out there.

Write your code in C#, ship it as cross-browser JavaScript. Magic from one of the ASP.NET architects.

Windows Vista will come with a built-in benchmark application, enabling you to determine just how hot your box really is (and if it will run Aero, the new UI).

Write an app for Windows CE and their Shared Source libraries, win an Xbox 360. Simple.

There are some new hints that a Google music store, which could compete with Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store and other download services, is on the way. Bring on the cat fight.

Business Objects and IBI hop on Google’s OneBox Enterprise Bandwagon

They can't count Albert, but maybe they can count C# as an official language.

Congratulations to Albert Pascual on becoming an American citizen.

How's this going to work? Click your heels to change the song? Select music based on the pace you're walking?