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The March Technology Preview of Atlas (Ajax for ASP.NET) is now available. In addition, they have a mash-up contest for people building stuff with it.

News for Friday, March 17 2006

The latest search engine to hit the Web, Accoona offers additional business info and a nice filtering ability. But is that enough?

Physicists announced Thursday that they now have the smoking gun that shows the universe went through extremely rapid expansion in the moments after the big bang.

Coming soon to Windows Live Messenger: voice and video. "They saw a crowded marketplace and said, 'Me too'"

See the products and books that make our lives easier. Visual Studio Professional Edition enters the Hall of Fame!

A little late for pi Day, but Jeremy Falcon wonders the wisdom and mystery of pi.

An "especially devastating" DDoS attack affected about 1,500 organizations worldwide earlier this year by unknown hackers who employed botnets and Domain Name System (DNS) servers to swamp networks with unmanageable torrents of data.

Hackers have managed to get Windows XP to run on one of the new Intel Macs. It's amazing what a little cash can get people to do.

Please check out this four part series with one of the industry's top Software Legends.

Microsoft is going public with some of the hacking information discussed at its Blue Hat Security Briefings event.

Microsoft is working on a Windows Live Mail developer platform that will provide the tools needed for third-party developers to build their own applications for the Web mail product.

Programming languages are just like high school, everyone wants to be the popular one.

News for Thursday, March 16 2006

Can't we all just get along.

The new Superman of privacy, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.

Betas may soon be a thing of the past for Microsoft.

RAVEN Professional adds Specification Builder and Specification Checker to their tools for converting plain English to UML.

Microsoft is building into the new operating system a tool that will rate a PC based on how well it is running and on how much it can take advantage of Vista's capabilities.

No, not that it kills the Back button. Adobe has confirmed that version 8 of Flash has multiple critical vulnerabilities. An update is available for download.

Service pack 1 for Visual Studio 2003 .NET is currently targeted for release in June of 2006. A customer beta period for Visual Studio 2003 SP1 begins March 24, 2006 and will continue through April 24, 2006. SP1 for Visual Studio 2005 is currently targeted for release in Q3 of 2006. The schedule for the beta will be posted when it has been finalized.

Why not?

Law enforcement officials in New Jersey have arrested 14 people in connection with a crime spree that has forced banks across the nation to replace hundreds of thousands of debit cards.

News for Wednesday, March 15 2006