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Friday, May 12, 2006 8:00am
News for Friday, May 12 2006
Industry News
As Sony and Nintendo unveiled new details about their upcoming game
consoles this week, Microsoft Corp. tried to build momentum for its
existing Xbox 360 by announcing new games and initiatives.
Source: seattlepi.com
Already on an estimated 98% of desktops via the browser, Adobe is
looking to spread out, and Apollo is the way there.
Source: News.com
Live or automated translation is now an option on Skype phone calls.
Just the thing for those calls to Australia.
Source: TechWeb
Scientists have been playing with the speed of light for a few years
now, but this one might top the cake: moving in reverse (at the
speed of light).
Source: University of Rochester
Developer News
Grids CSS is a suite of seven web page templates and the ability to
nest grids of one to four columns within the content area of those
templates.
Source: Yahoo
The Requirements Authoring Starter Kit (RASK) can help software
development teams collect, interpret, distribute, and synchronize
project requirements in a structured Word document using Microsoft
Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System and the
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server.
Source: Microsoft
Oracle will submit its AJAX render kit to the open source community,
enabling JSF components to become more dynamic.
Source: InfoWorld
Project jMaki can take JavaScript widgets from popular AJAX
frameworks and wrap them into a JavaServer Faces tag, providing a
Java language view of JavaScript components.
Source: InfoWorld
Hot Threads
I don't know what I'm more amazed about: Google Desktop, or Marc
Clifton liking something. ;)
Source: The Code Project
Could Linq be in the wings for C++, and if so, what will it look
like (and will anyone need it?)
Source: The Code Project
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