Apple job posting suggests better iPod games to come. With every iPod model set to adopt a color screen this year, Apple appears ready to expand the music player's extra capabilities, especially its bundled games.
And it's still a rumour, but maybe Apple will intergrate flash on the iPod machines.
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Powered by Detroit Conference is designed to promote the use of Flash and ColdFusion together as the dynamic medium for the future of the internet. This conference is for everyone that's interested in Flash and/or Coldfusion, from beginners, to professional designers, to marketing professionals looking for creative new ideas.
The conference will be held at April 9-10 in the Hyatt Regency-Dearborn.
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Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates sat down with Peter Jennings to discuss the future of the technology industry. They talked about Innovation, Competition and Goals.
Gates talked at about Microsoft's effort to upgrade security in the computer industry, his foundation's charitable work and his goals for the company.
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Kapor is one of the founding lights of the modern PC software industry. He was at the helm at the beginning of the Lotus Development Corp. He was responsible for many seminal software projects, including 1-2-3, Agenda and Notes.
Today, Kapor runs the Open Software Applications foundation, which is building a new product called Chandler that will focus on using open source methods for personal information management. He took time out from his schedule to exchange some pointed emails with us about where he has been, what it has been like competing with Microsoft and where open source software is going.
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No doubt completely coincidentally, Microsoft has now provided access to Windows XP 64. This is release candidate II, and is available for download from its customer preview site.
If you have a 64-bit ready PC, you now have the option to receive trial software for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition via CD or download. Please note that in either case, the pre-release software is time-limited and will expire in 360 days.
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PHP has been awarded the Programming Language of 2004, according to the TIOBE Programming Community Index.
The PHP Development Team has issued an important statement that deals with the security of PHP, and of PHP-based applications. The trigger for releasing this statement was the growing misconception in the PHP community regarding recent security problems, which exploited bugs in PHP applications, rather than bugs in PHP itself. It's a recommended read for anybody using PHP. Read More 
Scott MacGregor released Thunderbird 1.0 in 2004 and has been overwhelmed with the excitement and interest that has come from the release. He is now turning our focus towards our Thunderbird 2.0 including how we are going to get there.
The 2.0 plan intentionally looks very similar to Firefox 2.0. The work will be divided over two milestones, 1.1 (June 2005) and an unscheduled 2.0 release. All development work will be done on the Mozilla trunk, and these releases will coincide with Gecko version revs.
| Milestone | Release Date | Summary |
| 1.0 | 2004-12-06 | Inaugural Release |
| 1.1 Developer Preview | End of March 2005 | Non-Feature Complete Preview ("Alpha" in Old-Lingo) |
| 1.1 Preview Release | May 2005 | Feature Complete ("Beta" in Old-Lingo) |
| 1.1 | Late June 2005 | Finished 1.1 Release |
| 2.0 | ??? 2005 | Second major half of 2.0 development. |
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A letter that was delilvered to Featured Community Site Owners today stated the following:
Featured Community Site Owners,
Today at RSA, Bill Gates talked about Internet Explorer 7. As the guy responsible for IE, I wanted to say a couple of things about it.
First, some basics: we’re committing to deliver a new version of Internet Explorer for Windows XP customers. Betas of IE7 will be available this summer. This new release will build on the work we did in Windows XP SP2 and (among other things) go further to defend users from phishing as well as deceptive or malicious software.
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During his keynote address at the annual RSA Conference today, Bill Gates, announced continued innovation and technology investments including future enhancements for safer Web browsing, such as: