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Phones smarter than PDAs? Smartphones are tipped to take marketshare from PDAs next year according to Gartner.

LingPipe, a suite of Java tools designed to perform linguistic analysis on natural language data.

Matt — C# Language Spec 2.0.

Apple releases iSync 1.3.

Rusty — Frederic Laurent has released Lantern 1.0.

Daniel — Asynchronous and Synchronous.

Rick — Sun "merging" with Fujitsu? and New install4J - darned good value!

Fred — Eclipse-TimeTrack Plugin.

Geert — IBM SDK 1.4.1 SR1 … at last!

Bob — Strut like WebWork (sort of).

Simon — The average Playboy centrefold, by decade.

Review of Fujitsu's new Tablet PC. LifeBook T3010.

A renegade member of the N-Gage Special Forces speaks out. "Low sales figures are pretty accurate."

Spammers Fined $2 Million. California is getting ready to enact their controversial anti-spam law.

YourKit released Java Memory Profiler 1.0.2.

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Xcode: The future of Mac development tools.

Philips introduces new handsets: Fisio 350, 530.

Matt — How can I import local html/text files into a JSP page?

Bringing your Java Application to Mac OS X. Part Three.

jCIFS 0.7.15 , a client implementation of SMB/CIFS in Java.

Conan's ratings are surpassing Letterman's, even though C. is on an hour later.

The Ten Most Abused Words in Tech. Words, Words, Words.

Java State Machine Framework 0.0.5, a framework for modeling any event processing system as a state machine.

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Prototype Zaurus SL-6000 reported on Zaurus User Group. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth as well as a USB host and a bigger screen than the current SL series Zaurus models.

Marc — Poor Macromedia - my heart goes out to them.

Glen — Symbolic links into windows? It is possible.

Matt — A Very Simple CamelCase Parser in Python, 6.02x10^23, Baby! and Dive Into Panther.

Doug — Intro Multimedia/Computing Course with Jython.

Amazon now lets you search the FULL text of 120,000 books. Try it here.

OpenWFE, a workflow engine.

MIDP 2.0 for PocketPC. Kada Systems has released it's MIDP 2.0 KVM on the Windows 2000, Pocket PC 2003 and Pocket PC 2002 platforms.

How Would You Like A $39,000 Phone Bill? Ouch!

Jus — Documenting Tag Libraries.

Rick — JRoller Needs You! Shape the future of the system…

Geert — RIFE framework gets early adopters.

Anselm — Spybot Search and Destroy 1.3 Beta 4.

Jameleon 1.4.1.2, an automation testing framework without the problems of automated testing.

QuickTime for Java 6.4, which includes support for using QuickTime 6.4 with either Java 1.4.1 or Java 1.3.1.

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J2EE pathfinder: Implement JSP custom tags in five easy steps.

Tutorial: Create Web services with the WebSphere SDK Version 5.1.

Tutorial: Manage X.509 certificates in your grid with Java Certificate Services.

Tutorial: Create Web applets with Mozilla and XML.

Magic with Merlin: Dynamic event listener proxies.

Optimize wireless apps. Optimize those wireless apps to be speedy, but not greedy for bandwidth.

The easy way to non-blocked sockets. Use JSSE and NIO for a quick way to implement non-blocking communications.

Daniel — Why we wiki.

Diego — hate microsoft? like working for free? we've got a job for you.

Russ — Mobile Application Download Managers.

Sony Ericsson launch new Developer website. Sony Ericsson Developer World.

Magnus — DBVisualizer 4.0.

Dion — Oracle releases Oracle9i JDeveloper 9.0.3.3.

Jayson — Blarg #3: About the new JSP EL, who is using it? Plus a few other questions.

Rick — HP back in the game! 49g+ released - Give us Java!

Fred — SamsungWTK-MIDP2.0.

Simon — Cool Tools: SDM.

Joi — Google considers online IPO auction.

Marc — Broadband penetration hits 40%.

Cedric — A back-up story.

Christoph — 7 key skills of a project manager.

PMD 1.3, a Java source code analyzer.

JAG 2.4, a J2EE application generator.

Gizmodo scoop: Nokia to announce Series 90 operating system next week.

HeapRoots, a tool for debugging memory leaks in Java applications through analysis of "heap dumps."

Prabhu — http://www.precisejava.com/ - best practices site.

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Frank — Google: useless?

Leigh — Java Web Start and Signing Jars.

www.illegalaccess.org. This site is about several ways to crash our beloved JVM.

CLI for Noobies: File this.

Siemens SX1 delayed yet again.

WSJ: If you're tired of Windows viruses, consider a Mac.

Acer: Microsoft Tablet PC fees hard to swallow.

Nokia to Unveil Three New Cell Phones Next Week. The 'clam-shell' model 7200, the 6230 camera phone and the 6820 with keyboard.

Hani — Death to GUIs.

Rafe — The hazard of iTunes.

NYT's Pogue: Apple's latest 0.1 adds a lot. David Pogue previews Mac OS X 10.3 Panther.

Wireless PDAs. ExtremeTech roundup of wireless PDAs.

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Rick — jrendezvous fix.

Jakarta Commons DBCP 1.1, Commons/Net 1.1.0 and Commons Pool 1.1.

Matt — Jabber Releases Server For Windows.

Russ — Hunting the Whumpus.

Diego — the last flight of concorde.

FCC Approves First CDMA/GSM Phone for U.S. Samsung SCH-A790.

Andrej — Using eclipse to debug your tomcat web application.

Arjun — Very good Java resource, Web Services RSS Feeds and Human aggregators.

New G4 iBook may lack velocity engine. Maybe or maybe not.

Armond — Using Atlassian-JIRA for personal issue tracking!

Luke — Office 2003 install.

Mike — Message bundle diff tool?

Lee — Project Management Tools.

Leslie — Quick links.

Chris — C as the ultimate cross platform language?

Rafe — Reader comment on iTunes.

Robert — How to Hate Microsoft.

jConfigXML 2.3, a configuration manager for Java applications.

Motorola reveals "revolutionary" cellphone-on-module technology. Mobile Extreme Convergence (MXC) architecture.

Todd — US Senate Approves Anti Spam Bil.

Nokia issues battery safety guidelines. Avoid explosions.

Macromedia Flashes $65M In Front of eHelp. MM will buy the brains behind the RoboHelp authoring tool.

NYT: Blog Bog and an E-Mail Pony Express. "Flash in the pan" may be the best term for millions of Web logs.

Toshiba launches VGA, Wi-Fi PDA. e805 offers 802.11b, 480 x 640 display.

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Faster Web Interface Development. The goal of JavaServer Faces is to make Web development faster and easier.

Tutorial: Intro to vi.

Analyze Your Classes. Java reflection allows you to discover your code's abilities, but what about changing the code?

Developing With Maven. By knowing what developers want in a build tool, Maven hopes to unseat Ant as the favorite build tool of Java developers.

Java Web Services Developer Pack 1.3 Released.

Carlos — Identity Management Solutions Written in Java.

Jim — New iMacs look interesting, must resist… and SVG in Mozilla/Firebird.

Matt — Slashdot Reviews Advanced .NET Remoting and Memoranda.

Dave — developer.symbian.com Redux.

N-Gage — selling or not?. Analysts were not very impressed with Nokia's initial sales.

Andrej — Borland to own JBoss.

Arjun — Java Math expression evaluators.

Rusty — The JBoss Project has released JBoss 3.2.2.

Thomas — Navel Epiphany, BeanUtils Still Sucks.

Jason — The one thing missing from PHP5.

Guillermo — The Poll is over, Eclipse won.

Pawn — The Origins of "Value".equals(value);

Rick — What if the Eclipse becomes total?

Werner — Eclipse goes Conference in 2004.

Janne — Confessions of a switcher.

Bob — Easy port forwarding.

Lars — New Java Features.

FindBugs 0.7.0, a utility to find bugs in Java programs.

Apple Polishes iTunes for Windows. iTunes for Windows has received its first upgrade in order to correct problems reported by users.

Snubbing the RIAA, Part I.

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GameSpy investigates how the N-Gage is doing in the US. 5,000 units in week one.

Fed— Motorola SDK v4.0 J2ME.

FTP client for Java Apps 1.10. Programmatically controllable FTP client.

Chris — Intel launch WiFi search tool.

Quick Order 1.0, a realtime ordering system using Java Wireless HTTP Form.

jmark 1.4.4, a digital watermarking tool for Java class files.

Tech Tips: Converting Between Old and New Collections and Choosers Outside Dialogs.

Glen — Australian copyright law.

RealNetworks to Launch Europe Music Download Shop. Rhapsody Music Download Service.

Matt — Does Windows Violate the DMCA? and Apple Releases G4 iBook!

Nick — jvmstat and HotSwap Client Tool.

Dominic — LAMP, PHPEclipse and User-mode Linux (UML).

Helix Player 1.0 Milestone 1 release. Open source RealPlayer.

Ballmer on why Windows is more secure than Linux. A trip to Disneyland.

WiFi hotspots top 45,000. The quickening.

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Understanding WSDL. See the importance of WSDL in the overall Web services architecture.

Aussie Music Industry Sues ISP Over Filesharing. In what is believed to be the first case of its kind in the world…

Carlos — JBI Deals With the Heteregenous Network.

Dave — Roller 0.9.8.1 released.

Leslie — Quick links.

Anil — the connectors: good people to know.

Jeremy — 26Mbit DSL in Japan.

Marc — Evan ALMOST gets framed.

Kevin — It's worse than I thought.

Centrino notebooks lagging with US retail customers. Even after putting millions of dollars behind its ad campaign.

Dell Tests The Waters Of LCD TVs. In a week's time, Dell will begin selling its first LCD TV.

BS Remoting 2.0, lightweight solution that enables you to switch your java client/J2EE server communication from classic RMI calls to HTTP in order to be firewall friendly.

Ewan — It's All Gone a Bit Quiet?

Simon — JsUnit.

First Copy of Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) Delivered. In the UK nonetheless.

Microsoft launches self-destructing email (false). Urban myth gets disavowed.

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Daniel — An HTML client.

Feds: WindowsXP + Music Download Service = AntiTrust?

Monster.com Launches Social Networking Service. Web-based networking section where members can communicate with other job seekers.

Review: Wireless Hacks.

IBM Releases J2EE Code Validation Tool. J2EE Code Validator.

Matt — JBuilder X.

Russ — Confidence in Symbian.

Review: P900.

Rusty — Sun has released StarOffice 7.0.

Thomas — Navel 0.2 Released.

David — IntelliJ Aurora, build 957 is out.

Joshua — How about a jApp for my car?

Marc — Java Web Services Developer Pack (JWSDP) 1.3 Released.

Robert — iDEN and MIDP 2.0.

Rick — $129 for Panther? Hard to find the value…

Hani — IDEA jilted lovers.

Andreas — Developing for the Sony Ericsson P800 on Linux.

Prabhu — TCP/IP Optimizer.

Jeremy — ZDNet on PingID, Federated Identity.

Niel — MP3 Encoding Isn't Trivial.

Test iPod contre Philips HDD 100. iPod vs. Philips HDD 100.

Toshiba's new laptops. P25-S509, P15-S409 and P10-S429.

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NewsForge readers' top 10 application categories. Honor was paid to gcc at the top of the list, followed closely by a tie between Python and Quanta.

Guy — Who needs an iPod when they've got a Newton?

Rick — Tomcat 5 and IntelliJ IDEA - any workarounds?

Rafe — Series 60 newsis X Announced.

New Stereo Linked to Online Music Store. A prototype of an audiovisual system that can download song files from an online store without a PC.

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Rick — JDK 1.4.2_02 released.

Hani — The ubiquitous NullPointerException.

Andreas — Just4log.

Leslie — Quick links.

Chris — Compile-time implementation enforcement… in Perl.

Mike — XQuery Wiki.

Seyed — Creating a company.

Jaffa 1.3.0, an enterprise-focused Java framework for rapid application development.

Russ — More Weblogs in the Real World: Spending My Weblog Karma.

Thomas — Reportage sur France2 sur le wi-fi dans les chaines d'hotels et les tgv.

Jim — P900 Launched and Wheel re-inventing.

Sendo X Smartphone. Take that, M$.

Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) Shipping.

Java Servlet SAPI. How to use PHP in a Java Servlet.

Spam fighters defeat nuisance junk mail lawsuit. But landed with big legal bill.

Diego — auto-everything.

Hi-tech grocery shopping becoming reality. The Shopping Buddy.

Matt — Movie Trends: Kill Bill and Lost in Translation.

Tutorial: Creating an Online Help System with JavaHelp and DocBook.

XPP, a streaming pull XML parser.

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Erik's Pulse has been published.

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Daniel — Is anyone actually using …

The Results Are In: Wily Announces Completion of J2EE Survey.

Carlos— Why Can't Microsoft Deliver 64-Bit .NET?

Matt — Local Area Security Linux 0.4.

Russ — See what happens? Nokia 6600 in Spain.

P900 now official. Sony Ericsson unveiled the much anticipated P900 smartphone.

USA Today reviews iTunes for Windows. There is a way out of Apple's lock-in strategy.

David — Google inline definition: blog.

Mark — Hacking the Hacker.

Steve — New Oracle XML Developer Kit Releases Posted.

Victory declared in the open source war that never was. But that's not all right then, really…

Appeals Court Upholds Web-Radio Royalty Fee. Radio stations must pay copyright fees to the artists and record labels whose songs they play over the Internet.

Fred — PHP as a Java servlet?

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I've just released version 1.0.1 of the Google Tag Library. This version adds the ability to search for specific type of documents.

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JSP File Browser 0.6, a Web-based file access and manipulation system.

Apple is 'Innovator of the past 30 years'. Computing Magazine Awards for Excellence 2003.

Despite a New Outlook, Office 2003 Offers Little Reason to Upgrade. Of course it does, new security holes :-)

Matt — My IDEA Evaluation - Eclipse is better.

Charles — What's Your Threat Model?

Over 1 million iTunes for Windows downloaded, in 3.5 days.

Not So Quiet on Tech Job Front. Postings on Craiglist and Monster.com have increased "sharply".

mod_security 1.7, an Apache module that performs audit logging and request filtering.

Aaron — Victory: Google Updates Terms and Conditions.

Diego — O2's and Vodafone's "idiot upgrade package".

Rick — Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA tied.

Kinder, Gentler RIAA. Sue first, ask questions later.

Woman Sentenced for Intercepting E-Mail. 60 days of home detention for intercepting her husband's ex-wife's e-mail.

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Jerason — Current IDE usage.

Carlos — The Swing Connection Reloaded and Why Is Microsoft Interested In C++?

Diego — and speaking of kill bill…

Matt — Generic Linkdump #237, Linuxant Broadcom 802.11g Drivers for Linux, Console Apps and Quicklinks.

Russ — My New VUE.

Jim — Smartphones as pocket hogs - reprise.

Guy — Why would anybody want to program a Palm, using Visual Basic?

Rusty — Sun has released JavaHelp 2.0.

Sam — RSSReaper.

Glen — First Experiences with JNI.

Jason — The road to 2004 (I'm looking for another job).

Michael — Simplistic subsets.

Debashish — Code Analyzers.

Hani — java.util.logging shoddiness.

Vincent — JUnit in Action - off to press.

Chris — Struts with Spring.

Kevin — Remember Rip, Mix, Burn?

Paul — YourSymbian Editor.

Jeffrey — All About Subversion.

Lars — IMAP for Cocoon.

Martin — C-Refactory.

Nelson  — TorrentSpy.

Kenneth — Sprint wireless on the Zaurus.

Martin — Writing by numbers.

JCache alpha 3, a Java Caching Service.

Why JCP was forced to change its act. Java Community Process.

An introduction to J2EE security. Java is designed for secure development and deployment.

The best sub-$500 desktops. CompReviews.About.com.

Big problems with the Treo 600? No one seems to know precisely what's really going on.

Blaine walks free from box. I know it's his schtick, but I'm not impressed one bit.

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Matt — Web Frameworks - which one should I learn?

Alan — Javaworld: Please don't read us anymore…please!

IE2PDF. Convert HTML pages to PDF, including DHTML, etc.

Fun with Bluetooth at the Acura Dealership.

gcc 3.3.2. The GNU Compiler Collection.

eBay Sued For Trademark Infringement. Bidz.com '$1 No Reserve' .

LogiLogi 0.28, a MultiLanguage, sectioned Wiki-like system.

Windows iTunes sparks mixed reactions. Reactions range from unabashed praise to complaints of bugs.

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Jabber is on Fire. More users than ICQ, etc.

Neema — iTunes for Windows.

Napster MP3 Player Better than iPod? FM, line-in, etc.

Matt — OS X: Apps I dig.

First impressions of Viewsonic's V36 Pocket PC. BargainPDA isn't particularly impressed with it.

Nokia CEO: Almost all Nokia phones will be cameraphones.

PHP Scales As Well As Java. Jack Herrington at the O'Reilly Network has had the audacity to claim that…

Matt — the new $20.

Russ — iPod Next Generation.

Cell-Phone Ownership Continues To Grow. Houston 74%, Atlanta 73%, Honolulu 70%, Miami 69%…

Arj — iTunes revisited.

Rogers — Sun offers icon graphic collection.

Microsoft: iTunes Store too limited for Windows users.

A new wave of file-swapping lawsuits. 204 individuals notified. Did you check your snail mail today?

Holmes — Defending the families sued by the RIAA.

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Comparing PHP and J2EE architectures. The PHP Scalability Myth.

DataBean. A a Java library that provides features for mapping a database table to a Java class.

Tiger JMail. Tiger JMail is a direct replacement for Sun's javamail.

ROXES Ant Tasks 1.1 Open Source released.

Sebastiano — iTunes for Windows not up to expectations.

Dave — iTunes for Windows.

Steve — Apple doesn't make money with iTunes store?

How could it make any money, considering how much they have to pay the music industry, transaction fees, the cost of bandwidth, etc.?

Not to mention that the artists make close to nothing.

JChanBot, a new Java IRC bot.

Teen hacker is not guilty. Sensational verdict.

Dave — re: Arguing XDoclet.

Daniel — We almost lost JavaWorld.

New Ferrari 612 Scaglietti. To be presented at Detroit Motorshow in January 2004.

Philip — Sun: Threatened by Standards?

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Matt — JSTL and Dreamweaver has JSP Tag Completion.

Chris — Optimizing XML parsing with code generation.

Andy — New Toys: Borland JBuilder 9 (On OS X) and Mozilla Firebird 0.7.

SCO Wins $50 Million Investment. Private investment deal led by BayStar Capital.

Maya now Free for Personal Use. Free download for non-commercial applications.

Leslie — Quick links.

My version of iTunes for Windows won't recognize CDs. Matt tells me that his doesn't find MP3s, even when told where they are.

Sylvain — Safari on Windows?

iTunes Windows - First Impressions. Favorable?

The Future: Mercedes-Benz F 500 Mind. Talk to me, baby.

Pepsi, Apple team to lure kids to DRM. 100,000 song giveaway.

Why The WiFi Is Free At Buck's. If you live in Silicon Valley, you know about Buck's…

[@042] Store objects using the Preferences API. If your data can be expressed as simple objects, the API can be useful storage. More Than 18 Million Software Downloads from Sun's java.com. Chris — What If the iApps Had Been the jApps? Dion — Ant 1.6 Makes an Appearance. Carlos — Counter Intuitive Rules for Software Success. Russ — J2ME for BREW Phones and iTunes for Windows. Frank — Apple gets it - again and European Music Industry: WAKE UP! Alan — One really cool applet! Ken — IDEA EAP build #944 review. Andreas — Clustered JDBC. Ben — The CVS book. Brent — NetNewsWire and NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.6. Jeremy — VeriSign selling DNS business. Niel — JReceiver: Another Very Cool Open Source Java Project. TagUnit 1.0-beta4 released. Java XTools 1.1, a collection of functions for Java and Java 3D. Java Email Server 1.3, an SMTP POP3 email server. The iPod accessories are out. iPod Media Reader and iPod Voice Recorder. PC Shipments Rise 15 Percent, Driven By Notebook Sales. Lime Wire launches legal content portal. It's not all dodgy Metallica CD rips, you know. Anti-Spammers Win Major Court Battle. EMarketersAmerica.org case dismissed with prejudice. [@668] Review: Mac OS X Panther 10.3. Hand/RSS for Palm OS. Plam-based aggregator. Gates: MS has 20m mobile market share, heads for 60%. Mark — Atom revealed. Creative's 60GB Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra. Officially announced. [@551] David — blojsom 2.03 available. Brent — Verisign bad? Mark Roth pointed me to his excellent TLDDoc tool. I'm planning on using it for the Google Tag Library. Will you Take Her Away? My current desktop wallpaper. Matt — My Foo Camp Gallery. Matt — HowTo: Integrate Apache and Resin. Leslie — Quick links. Haiko — More aggregators. Tim — Debbie Does BitTorrent. Tom — Java not cross-platform? Comparatif Java G5/PC. Comparing Java performance on a G5 and various PCs. Apple UK confirms iPod add-ons launch. Commenting on unannounced product? Charles — SLEE - A Java Application Server for the future. Simon — XDoclet in the J2EE web tier. Debashish — Javaranch newsletter: October Issue.