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The JavaOne Conference for Java developers opens today in San Francisco, with Sun giving a welcome gift of source code to attendees.
At a conference in Seattle yesterday, Microsoft officials announced that Longhorn, its next operating system will come with RSS-friendly features making it easy for users to subscribe to them, and for developers to work with them.
A Supreme Court ruling has granted the city of New London, Conn. approval to demolish a neighborhood of homes in order to make room for a hotel and an office complex.
In the vast expanse known as the solar system, cosmic powers reign free to manipulate heavenly bodies into alignment. The effects are unknown. As the Venusians, the Mercurians, and the Saturnians realize their destiny, we on earth remain relatively unaware of their intentions to bring their planets into alignment and start a cosmic convergence.
NASA's Deep Impact space probe continues to hurl through space on a collision course with the Tempel-1 comet. The probe should hit the comet on July 4th. If this goes off, this will be one of the coolest tricks NASA has ever engineered.
A week ago, Guidant Corp. announced that it was voluntarily recalling several models of its cardiac defibrillators, which were implanted in about 50,000 people around the world.
