February 1st, 2008
InfoWorld has awarded CodeGear JBuilder 2007 as the best Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE) in its 2007 Technology of the Year awards.The InfoWorld awards recognize significant technologies of the past year that assured to make the greatest impact on enterprise IT strategies.JBuilder 2007 is an IDE built on the open source Eclipse framework, which makes [...]
February 1st, 2008
SpringSource also known as Interface21, open source software for building and deploying enterprise applications released Spring.Net 1.1, an application framework for building .Net applications. The design of Spring.NET is based on the Java version of the Spring Framework.揃y offering an expanded feature set and leveraging the modular design and component-based nature of the Spring Framework, [...]
February 1st, 2008
Microsoft Corp. changed course on an update to Office 2003 that blocked certain older file types from opening, after receiving a flurry of criticism from users and online publications.Office 2003 Service Pack 3, a free package of updates and fixes released in September, blocked users from opening files created by older versions of Word, Excel [...]
February 1st, 2008
Casio has announced the EXILIM EX-F1 camera that can shoot up to 60 frames per second or movies at 1,200 frames per second at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.The camera has a 6-megapixel complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensor and a 12x zoom range. When using the sensor at its full [...]
February 1st, 2008
French publisher Ubisoft has announced that its upcoming FPS Far Cry 2 will not be a PC exclusive, and will also be released on Xbox 360 and PS3 as well.Far Cry 2 is a next-generation first-person shooter being created by Ubisoft Montreal development studio. It will feature a custom-made video game engine built from [...]
February 1st, 2008
Toshiba has recently filed a DVD patent infringement suit against an Italian company Toshiba claims is manufacturing and selling DVDs without the proper licenses.Toshiba said that ACME has engaged in the manufacture and sales of DVD video discs in Italy without signing any licensing agreements with Toshiba or the DVD6C Licensing Group.The DVD6C Licensing Group [...]
February 1st, 2008
Chay Yew’s Porcelain is a confronting and skilfully
constructed play that covers some bleak terrain. It focuses on what
the British quaintly refer to as “cottaging”, or sex, usually
between men, in public toilets.
The dramatic crux is a sensational murder. John Lee (Keith
Brockett), a young gay Asian student, shoots his lover William Hope
(Leon Durr) six times. The pair [...]
February 1st, 2008
Napoleon Bonaparte knew how much he owed to Italy. On a spring
day in 1796, the 26-year-old fledgling general trapped and
destroyed a greatly superior Austrian force at Montenotte in the
steep hills of the Appennini Savonese.
Years later, answering a question about his bloodline, the
Emperor said: “My nobility dates from Montenotte.”
And the revolutionary general’s victory and advance into
Lombardy [...]
February 1st, 2008
It has developed a web preview tool, which shows snippets of pages, such as Google search results, saving the user from having to download irrelevant documents before deciding if the link is useful. “People spending more than three hours a day online are going to love this,” chief executive Seth Wagoner said. [...]
February 1st, 2008
The Pt Chevalier resident works for Childfund, an organisation that helps communities in developing countries.
She says runners who raise money for the charity will have their $120 marathon entry fee scrapped.
Participants must raise $500 for the half or full marathon courses or $200 for the 10km or 5km options to qualify.
The initiative is modelled on [...]
