Shares of digital music service Napster Inc. have risen more than 30 percent in pre-market trading. The cause of the sudden stock rise was a report that it was in discussion with Google Inc. for an alliance that could include a sale.
Read MoreLinus Torvalds said he won't convert Linux to version 3 of the General Public License as he doesn't agree with the digital rights management provisions in the proposed update.
Torvalds said; "I don't think the GPL v3 conversion is going to happen for the kernel, since I personally don't want to convert any of my code."
Read MoreJim from litfuel has a great article on AJAX & JSON. JSON stands for JavaScript Serialized Object Notation. This method results in very compact data, which boosts performance when compared to traditional XML based messaging from server to client.
The increasing popularity of interactive Web sites has set off a race among software companies, each pitching their own development toolkit.
Sun Microsystems arleady released a free tool for building Web applications that promises to speed up AJAX-style development; Java Studio Creator 2. IBM is expected to announce plans for selling AJAX tools.
Read MoreMicrosoft has released a Community Technology Preview of the Interactive Designer, codenamed "Sparkle". The project has arguably been named Flash-Killer in the media, because it enables the creation of rich 2D & 3D graphics, animation and a dynamic layout. The software also enables data binding, style & template editing, and resource management.
Read MoreAfter more then three years, Google has taken Google News out of beta. Google has added a feature that aims to present users with more stories that are relevant to their personal interests.
Read MoreActiveWin.com has posted many high-resolution screenshots of Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2.
Among the new features are the highly anticpated tabs, a phishing filter, new overviews with multiple websites in one window, better security, a zoom function and a built in RSS reader.
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