Ed Leafe and Paul McNett tooks the covers off of Dabo 0.1, a project
they’ve been working on for some time: an n-tier, cross-platform,
data-aware application development framework written in Python. I’ve
been toying with the framework for some time, and I think this could be
a great framework for deploying apps on Windows, Mac and Linux. See
more details [...]
Just had the little Microsoft Update critter in the tray pop up to tell
me that there was a new update. The text was incredibly generic:
A security issue has been identified that could allow
an attacker to compromise a computer running Windows and gain complete
control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this
update from [...]
Nicholas G. Carr, author of the controversion Harvard Business Review
article “IT Doesn’t Matter” last year, follows up in Wired magazine
with some intriguing examples: Intel’s Centrino, Sun’s OpenOffice.org
and Microsoft’s IE.
Nicholas Carr:
“In public, industry CEOs may continue to exercise their Peter Pan
complexes, pretending that the IT business will never grow up. But
behind the scenes they’re dismantling Neverland [...]
Microsoft drops its Wi-Fi offerings.
Microsoft Corp. has decided to stop producing wireless networking
products and will discontinue its range of gear using the 802.11b
wireless networking standard, also known by the Wi-Fi marketing name,
the company announced Tuesday. [InfoWorld: Top News]
