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Is it illegal to use an image on another site? I'm not a lawyer, but at the very least you're sponging their bandwidth, so play nice.

According to the Yankee Group's annual server reliability survey, only Unix-based operating systems such as HP-UX and Sun Solaris 10 beat Windows on uptime.

Security Token Service (STS) is an online identity-management service, while Relay Service allows services built using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to connects through security devices such as firewalls.

Following their acquisition of Writely, Google is adding a Web-based spreadsheet. Will it matter?

PayPal this weekend plans to unveil a community site that targets developers who integrate the online payment service into third-party Web sites.

How can Microsoft become the software industry's first "N-trick pony"?

Happy 6-6-6 (06/06/06) day!

Not the relative merits, but how many of each are in the wild?

Apple and Research in Motion (RIM) would be wise to team up and share the technology that the other lacks, suggested Peter Misek, an analyst with Canaccord Capital. Sounds like a yummy juice.

According to an independent survey, by the end of 2006, it is expected that the number of developers to be working on Linux will match the number of Windows developers. Hmmm, make sure and read the fine print.

AllofMP3.com has become a pawn on the global stage. They sell music that "may be legal", and the US is willing to offer membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) if Russia will work to shut them down.

After talks break down over "Save As PDF", Microsoft agrees to pull a feature from the upcoming Office 2007.

Net2Phone cries foul...Internet phone company Net2Phone has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against rival Skype Technologies and its parent company, eBay.

FINE-TUNING its hybrid approach to software as a service, business software maker SAP has unveiled what it calls a hybrid on-demand/on-premises customer relationship management suite.

The Mozilla Corp. has released updates to its Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client that fix a number of critical security flaws in the open-source products.

VMware Infrastructure 3 Suite aims to help companies save money by simplifying IT operations.

Sun Microsystems and Microsoft are progressing with programming language research efforts aiming at high-performance computing (HPC) and AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), respectively.

Let's talk architecture.

Can you photograph ghosts? Do they exist?

Online cryptography course available for free.

A new flaw found in Microsoft’s software could be exploited to cause a denial-of-service attack on certain applications, although the bug isn’t viewed as being severe.

Four months before the new supply comes, 65,000 H-1B visa have run out. In other news, outsourcing is at a record high.

What to read during long compiles? Why, this newsletter, of course!

On the heels of the introduction of free SkypeOut in the U.S. and Canada, Skype and the Skype partner ecosystem continue to offer even more free services for Skype consumer and business users.