News for Monday, April 3 2006

Industry News

Alcatel and Lucent to Merge

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

Canadian WiMAX Network Launched

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.
Source: Ars Technica

Patent Office Rules in eBay's Favor

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.
Source: TechWeb

Developer News

PHP Extended to Midrange

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.
Source: InfoWorld

Windows Vista Capable

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.
Source: InfoWorld

Microsoft Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library V1.0

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

Neutrinos have mass

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?
Source: BBC

Hot Threads

The History of "i"

Where did that itty-bitty incrementing iterator come from?
Source: The Code Project

Which Project Tracking Tools would you recommend?

"Getting to Done" begins with "What do I need to do?"
Source: The Code Project