News for Monday, March 06 2006

Industry News

Jupiter's New Red Spot

An Earth-sized storm on Jupiter that has been raging since 2000 turns red, giving the giant planet not-so-Great Red Spot. (Read More)
Source: NASA

RIM settles NTP patent fight with $612.5M payment

The world is safe again for the millions of BlackBerry-wielding thumbs. (Read More)
Source: ComputerWorld

'My ABC' to Launch With Ad-Supported Show Downloads

Commercials or $1.99? Soon you'll have a choice for downloading television shows. (Read More)
Source: Clickz News

Developer News

AOL opens AIM service to external developers

Open AIM aims to get external developers to add new features to the #1 IM program. (Read More)
Source: InfoWorld

Get the February 2006 DirectX SDK

This SDK includes the initial release of the Cross-Platfrom Audio Content Tool (XACT), plus new Managed DirectX 2.0 beta libraries, an updated Direct3D 10 Preview. (Read More)
Source: MSDN

Hot Threads

Takes a licking and keeps on sticking...

Flash drive survives the wash. Now, try it with a hard drive... (Read More)
Source: Code Project

The rise and fall of OO

Is OO following the path of the dodo? Discuss. (Read More)
Source: The Code Project