June 2005 Entries
Grokster loose their case. The US Supreme Court has ruled that file-sharing companies are to blame for what users do with their software.
[Via BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition]
It's not (yet) Beta 2, but a refresh of Microsoft's AntiSpyware beta product is due out in the next day or two, according to Microsoft officials.
[Via Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley]
Scott Hanselman has an awesome list of his favorite 120 developer and power tools.
[Via Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]
Gartner analysts are warning that the forthcoming Microsoft mobility feature pack, does "not go far enough with security for enterprise-wide deployment." Gartner is recommending that businesses use third-party vendor security add-ons to make Windows suitable for mobile use. Microsoft is refuting Gartner's findings.
[Via Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley]
The Tech-Ed Keynote address on June 7 announced that Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 will RTM (Release to Manufacturing) on November 7, 2005.
[Via Owen Allen (MSFT PacWest)]
The Office 12 Preview website has just gone live. Go see www.microsoft.com/office/preview.
Currently it has details from the Office XML file format announcement of last week, plus the ability to register for future updates and access to the Beta version when it becomes available. 
[Via Mark Bower]
prostoalex writes "When you hear about blogging, you're most likely to hear about personal journals, self-expression and youngsters sharing their daily routines online. However, as Wall Street Journal notes, the word blogger can now frequently be seen in corporate job ads. Blogging jobs pay anywhere from $40,000 to $70,000 and frequently require writing copy for corporate Web sites and ability to promote on the Internet. A search for blogger and blogging on one of the job meta search engines yields several hundred open positions."
It takes me to earn a living cutting code :) -Ed.
[Via Slashdot: ]
British engineers are playing a key role in the building of the test spacecraft for Europe's satellite-navigation network, Galileo.
[Via BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition]
Scotland's first minister appeals for a "peaceful protest" following Bob Geldof's plans for a million person march on Edinburgh. (Oh deep joy! -Ed.)
[Via BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition]
President Bush adds his voice to senior US attacks on an Amnesty report criticising the US human rights record.
Of course it's absurd. Why should abducting people from their native land and imprisoning them outside the protection of the law be a breach of anyone's human rights? -Ed.
[Via BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition]
Essex University researchers say they've created the world's smallest flying web server using a toy helicopter equipped with an 8-gram gumstix processor. Next up: military applications. By Kevin Poulsen.
[Via Wired News]
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