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  • Spam turns 30 - still no end in sight

    This week, the world marks an anniversary that has changed the face and other anatomical regions of e-mail inboxes everywhere: the first known spam e-mail was sent 30 years ago on Saturday.

  • Is Google's App Engine a lock-in honeypot?

    Some developers fear that Google is aiming to lock them into to the App Engine platform Google's application hosting service but Google refutes any claim it has evil intentions.

  • Google sets Bigtable for free life in the cloud

    Web developers will soon be able to host their applications on Google's infrastructure for free up to a point.

  • Silverlight update fights back against Adobe's AIR

    On Monday, Adobe released the long-awaited AIR download for running Web applications offline, but Microsoft is readying an update to its Silverlight platform that it hopes will keep Web developers in its camp.

  • Getting ready for the Python breakage

    If Google starts behaving oddly later this year, it might not be due to too many YouTube videos of Britney Spears losing it or a stealth attack by Microsoft's minions, but because of a forthcoming change to the Python programming language.

  • PHP, Perl and Python pass Homeland Security test

    Coverity, which creates automated source-code analysis tools, announced late Monday its first list of open-source projects that have been certified as free of security defects.

  • Ubuntu-maker launches Bazaar development tool

    Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, has released a content-development tool designed to move development into the Internet age.

  • Google takes open source back to school

    Google Highly Open Participation Contest is a global program that is an analogue of the Google Summer of Code program (SoC) targeted at high school students.

  • Europa eclipses Callisto in Friday's overhaul

    The Eclipse framework and 20 of its applications will be updated at the end of this week when Europa replaces Callisto.

  • Flash in the Pan

    So Silverlight will kill Flash, will it? Maybe it will. A lot of people have told me this and I began to wonder if the opinion had any validity. It took me less than 15 minutes of research to determine that it may not kill Flash but it will most definitely do it some serious market damage. Why?

  • Google creates uber search site

    Search leader redesigns main Web results page with universal, integrated search and other new features.

  • Sun tries again with consumer-flavoured Java

    The server and software company comes full circle with Java, releasing a scripting language to ease desktop and device Java development.

  • Open-source Eclipse barrels down Ajax path

    The open-source development tools consortium fills out its projects for Ajax-style Web development.

  • Symantec sizes up security in Windows Vista

    Windows Vista might be Microsoft's most secure operating system yet, but its Windows SideBar and gadgets could pose security threats, according to Symantec.

  • Sun's Fortran replacement goes open-source

    Sun Microsystems took a new open-source step this week, enlisting the outside world's help in an attempt to create a brand-new programming language called Fortress.

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