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Simon — TagUnit examples online.

Revenue soars for XM Satellite.

I've jolted down my Zaurus' first impressions.

ProFTPD 1.2.8, the FTP daemon we use on our servers. 

Use Google? Here's how to hack it!

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Java theory and practice: Performance management — do you have a plan? Knowing when to optimize is more important than knowing how to optimize.

Magic with Merlin: The ins and outs of Merlin's new I/O buffers. Learn how to manipulate J2SE 1.4's new I/O package.

O'Reilly E-Tech Java Guide.

Diego — The design of Nokia's 3650.

Matt — Are you a contractor wondering what you should charge?

Didier — Castor Plug-in for Eclipse v1.0.0 released.

Max — Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) for Java ?

Doug — NetLogo 1.2.

Amthony — The Time Draws Near.

Steve — ctl+shift+v in IDEA.

Tom — <cough>Mine!</cough> .

Macromedia Takes Flash Beyond the Browser. Macromedia Central software environment.

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Bambookit, an extremely lightweight XML based GUI platform.

Leslie — PersonalWebProxy.

Mark— HTTP Error 410: Gone.

Charles — PortableRemoteObject.biteMe().

Dave — Code Kata One - Supermarket Pricing.

JiBX Alpha 2, XML Data Binding for Java.

Review: MySQL Cookbook.

ReplayTV service only guaranteed through April. SONICblue, the company that makes ReplayTV digital video recorders, declared bankruptcy last week.

GPRS/WiFi LAN PC-Card from Sony Ericsson. GC79.

Siemens C56, S56 now from AT&T Wireless. The C56 mobile phone starting this month and the S56 mobile phone beginning in Q2 2003.

Russ — Examining the 3650's Design Choices: Is Nokia Genius or Smoking Crack?

Jim — Gun jumping, take two.

On March 27, 1986, — Sammy Hagar played his first show as lead singer of Van Halen.

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Ken — IDEA EAP build #807 review.

Matt — Which caching framework to use?

Haiko — No, I'm not Obsessed!

Matt — Why is Poorly Documented Code the Industry Standard?

Oracle touts J2EE frameworks. The next release of JDeveloper…

IDG creates Macworld substitute. The show, to be called Create, will be held during the same time slot planned for the Expo, running July 14-18.

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Jim — Word for the day: Muggle and Blogrolls, bah humbug…

Diego — looking for a new look and feel.

Matt — Hibernate: Comparing Objects and Struts Upgrade: 1.1 RC1 to Nightly Build (20030326).

Joe — JBoss' certification.

Neill — Mike Clarks JWhich will tell you where a class is being loaded from.

Happy Birthday, Brent.

Jason — New C# language features.

Matt — Moving from Access to MySQL.

Dan — (Perl|python|Ruby) on (.NET|JVM).

ActiveState and O'Reilly join up. Safari Bookshelf.

The Wristomo wristwatch phone from Seiko.

PayPal Tightens Transaction Reins. “Every change they've ever made to the system has only served to make it less useful to people…”

Grand Theft Auto Finance. As Internet-based lenders capture a growing share of the auto financing marketplace, traditional players fight back with online offerings of their own.

Senator calls for copy-protection tags. Software, music and movies that employ copy-protection schemes must be prominently labeled with consumer warnings.

VeriLocation, a service that lets your pinpoint the location of your mobile phone.

Cedric — Is your tool tool-friendly?

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Jeremy — Interview with Sergey Brin, Google co-founder.

Intel granted overclocking blocking patent.

JMail 0.8.5, a Java-based mail client.

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Bob — SD-West Tuesday.

U.S. EBay Seller Refuses Canucks. “If you are not with us, you are against us.”

Jarchiver 1.0, a Java Archiving Tool.

Bartender 1.0, a Java barcode generator.

J2ME VNC Client Alpha 1 Released.

JaxMeJS 1.4, a framework for generating Java sources.

Ogg Vorbis for the P800. Ogg Vorbis player for the UIQ platform.

Commuters hack wireless networks. Wireless hacking is most likely to occur during the rush hour.

Julian — My Tools Are Being Used, Java's Not?

Scott — Email Newsletters Worth Getting.

Chiara — I love Rickard, i am sorry, i can't help it..

On March 26, 2000 — The Seattle Kingdome was imploded to make room for a new football arena.

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Microsoft Internally Corrects XP SP1 Slowdown.

The Dell Printers Are Here! A940, P1500, S2500 and S2500n.

Integrated Testing Builds In Quality. Achieve more reliable applications through methodologies, modeling, and new techniques for finding and analyzing errors.

Turn a JTable into a Spreadsheet. Take advantage of Swing's JTable component and its ready-to-use GUIs to display and manage spreadsheet data

A Ticket to Success. Represent theater seats in a Java class to read and print tickets as well as display the results on screen

Matt — Code idiom: using logical ^ to change your mind.

Cellphone with foldaway keyboard. Prototype cellphone from ATELAB.

IBM to produce Nvidia chips. Nvidia has signed a pact with IBM to help it avoid putting all of its graphics chips in one basket.

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Java Web Services Developer Pack 1.1 Now Available.

Andre — Javaworld does WebWork.

FBI's Crime Database No Longer Needs To Be Accurate.

Russ — Download Borland C++ Mobile Edition from Nokia Forum.

Review compares Camino and Safari.

Gartner: IT outsourcing will disappoint. Half of IT outsourcing projects will be considered unsuccessful in 2003 as they have not delivered the expected value.

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Didier — ClassLoader Viewer.

Red Hat's fourth-quarter results. Breaking even.

New IIS exploit could be one of many.

Job losses since 9/11 top 2.5 million. Hardest hit were the transportation and aerospace industries.

JSR 211 Submitted: Content Handler API for J2ME.

SWT presentation from Web Services Edge Available.

Dominic — Tomcat 5 and Filters and GZIP enabling Axis.

Mark — when book covers go bad.

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JBoss To Share Profits With Developers. JBoss has started distributing compensation in the form of profit-sharing and options to developers that worked on the application server.

ACM Java Challenge Revealed.

Jim — Presence - Bluetooth's killer app?

Alan — I have eclipse'd my java development.

David — blojsom 1.6.1 available.

Matt — DBUnit and CLEAN_INSERT.

Dominic — Object Computing Inc - Java News Briefs.

Jason — Getting public PGP keys in Java….

Markus — SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio to be based on Eclipse.

Matt — Red Hat 9 (Shrike) Preview.

Microsoft's Exit from W3C Group Stirs Dissent.

AMD claims Intel 845G/GL chipsets cause system crashes.

WSJ Online Launches Afternoon Report Blog.

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nntp//rss 0.3. Blogger, LiveJournal and MetaWeblog APIs now supported.

The first taste of Liberty. Sign on once, log in everywhere.

Russ — Intelliphones WAY Outsell PDAs in Europe.

Charles — Paying for Software.

Java Serialization to XML 2 0.7.0, convert Java objects into streams of XML and back again.

“Yeah, Sure” Department. t.A.T.u.

Jim — BlogShares - comedy blog pricing time.

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Admin Digest: Stopping Spam with Linux.

Matt — Display Tag Library 0.8.5 Released!

Matt — Bluetooth Under Linux.

Niel — personalblog.sourceforge.net.

Happy Birthday, OS X!! Mac 0S X 10.0 was released 2 years ago.

Inventor of the portable computer dies. Adam Osborne.

Murach's Java Servlets and JSP, by Andrea Steelman and Joel Murach.

Yesterday I moved everything on my blog' server from Java 1.3.1_07 to 1.4.1_02. So far, so good.

Haiko — God kills Kittens.

OpenArena, a development environment for autonomous software agents.

Alcatel GPRS Wireless Mobile. One Touch OT531.

Steve — This will cheer you up, chap.

iSMS 2.03.

Java Scheduling API, quickly develop scheduler system.

Morphious, a Runtime Modular Java Server.

Online shopping hits a speed bump. Online shopping came to a virtual standstill the week ending March 16.

On March 25, 1957 — The European Economic Community was established with the signing of the Treaty of Rome.

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Martin — The UK Loves SMS.

SpamAssassin 2.52, a mail filter to identify spam using text analysis.

Sun Attacks Microsoft XML Strategy Shift. Sun fired its first salvo at Microsoft's upcoming Office 2003 by calling into question the aim of Redmond's overall XML strategy…

Russ — Nokia To Produce WiFi Phones.

Kasia— Pay for platform development.

bind4j, a simple databind API for Java with auto type convertion.

Why should software be free? Some things are priceless. So is Free Software.

Madonna Taps Fans For MP3 Release. $1.49 per song.

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Jeremy — NetFlix + Porn = PrivateAtHome.com.

Eclipse XDoclet Plugin. Supports development of XDoclet-annotated Java code by providing resource change tracking, incremental building, etc.

Top Apple employees take home bonuses. Apple has awarded more than 200 of its top workers a bonus, despite the fact that the company fell short of targets it had established for such payments.

Alleged victims of net scheme share $20M. “One of the biggest pyramid schemes we've seen…”

Matt — Adobe Prefers PCs?

Bill — Standards versus Standards.

Phillip — PHP5.

Damien — JBoss, JMS and WebSphere MQ.

Glen — Inside an Idea Plugin (Part 4).

PDAs Enlisted in War on Terror. The US Department of Health and Human Services is testing a system that uses personal digital assistants to send biological warfare information to health-care workers.

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Russ — The Revolution Will Have T-Shirts!

Red Hat 9 To Be Released March 31.

Matt — Linux on Centrino.

Amazon makes bid for Web-ad patent.

HP's new Bluetooth Pocket PC. iPAQ h2200.

Apple WWDC delay prompts PPC 970 speculation.

Sony's New Humanoid Robot SDR-4X II.

Microsoft Limits Hotmail To Stop Spam. Microsoft has announced that Hotmail will now limit the number of emails you can send out to 100 per day.

NEC Rolls Out 19-inch LCD With IT Features. NEC MultiSync LCD1980SX can be connected to control centers using cables as long as 100 meters (326 feet) without degrading the signal.

Apple releases Security Update 2002-03-24.

Intel invests $7.2 million in Jabber. Intel Capital joins France Telecom and Webb Interactive Services as Jabber's main financial benefactors

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Diagnose SQL Server performance problems with SQL Profiler.

Gridbus, a JXTA-based grid computing tool. Service-Oriented Grid Computing.

Xephyrus, a File Upload Tag Library.

Anteater, a testing framework designed around Ant.

SmartPool, a connection pooling component that is modeled on connection pooling features provided by application servers.

StringRT class. StringBuffer should had never existed!

J2EE BookStore Sample Application Announced.

Russ — Wondering What Version of WAP is Which? and Mobitopia Sponsorship to be Auctioned on eBay.

Diego — everything but the kitchen sink. The Archos Jukebox Multimedia.

Jim — Push-To-Talk, will it make the big step to the global stage?

Sync Mac to PocketPC. PocketMac.

Anthony — JPublish 2.0b3 Released.

David — blojsom 1.6 released and IntelliJ IDEA (Aurora) #807 is available.

Matt — New Hibernate Versions (1.2.4 and 2.0 beta 4).

Werner — JBoss 3.2.0 RC4 is available.

Scott — Free C++ testing tools.

Karl — Some development links of interest.

Danny — Using JUnit.

Giulio — What RSSLibJ cannot do (yet?)

Matt — Java on Tablet PCs.

Tapestry 2.4-alpha-5, a Java component object model for developing highly interactive Web applications.

ZDNet reviews the first SmartDisplay. Airpanel V110 from ViewSonic.

Apple Terminates Safari Seed Program. “This morning Safari beta v67 was leaked to the Internet…”

Intel announces three new XScale processors. PXA263, PXA260 and PXA255.

On March 24, 1999 — NATO launched air strikes against Yugoslavia (Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Vojvodina). The attacks marked the first time in its 50-year history that NATO attacked a sovereign country. The bombings were in response to Serbia's refusal to sign a peace treaty with ethnic Albanians who were seeking independence for the province of Kosovo.

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Move over T68, the Sony Ericsson T610 is here!

David — Trackbacks enabled for blojsom 1.6.

Jeremy — The Facts… Sort of.

Girl Scouts: Just Say No to E-Commerce.

Tablet PC roundup. Lengthy PC World survey of the field of Tablet PCs.

First Non-American to Head ICANN. Australian Paul Twomey.

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Russ — Temptation Strikes: M$ Offers to Send Me to Mobius.

Apache Tomcat 4.1.24 Stable Released.

Joi — Technorati Current Events.

Cedric — EJBGen 2.12 released.

Apple launches new student Web site.

Trio accused of porn scam. Bilking thousands of consumers out of $230 million US in an Internet pornography scheme.

Jakarta Commons HTTP Client 2.0 Alpha 3, an intermediate alpha release.

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Chris — Fun with classloaders.

Joey — What I Don't Like About the Java Plugin.

Cedric — SWT and consistent look and feel.

O'Reilly: Learning the Terminal in Jaguar, Part 3.

O'Reilly publishes “Mac OS X Hacks”.

iGo Pitches Bluetooth projector.

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Dominic — Compressing web content with Servlets and Filters. Tomcat 4.1 has a Filter (in the examples directory) that does just that.

Simon — Refactoring : Improving the design of existing code.

Cedric — JBoss and Open Source.

Costin — A nice howto for apache2+jk2.

Quartz 1.0.7, an enterprise-class job scheduler for integration with stand-alone java applications and full-blown J2EE applications.

PMD 1.0.4, a Java source code analyzer.

Scam casts doubt on eBay's anti-fraud software. “The red flags in this case were all over the place.”

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Sun's J2SE Client Developer Survey.

Matt — DBUnit has released version 1.5.

Chris — Yahoo's redirect domain.

Oops…new WWDC date conflicts with MacHack.

AT&T Wireless to offer Smartphones. AT&T Wireless will be the first carrier to make them available in the US.

Some Sites Temporarily Suspend Ads. Some websites have decided that it's not appropriate to be showing ads as the war gets underway.

Werner — Profiling tools.

Dominic — JBoss, Tomcat, Apache setup guides.

Ben — Base64 encoders / decoders.

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Dave — Denial-Of-Service holes in JDK 1.4.1_01.

Fred — Jack Shirazi's JavaPerformanceTunning Site.

Ben — iTunes agogo.

It's official: SONICblue files for Chapter 11.

Book Review: C++ Templates: The Complete Guide.

Pocket PC Display Option for the WSI InFlight Cockpit Weather System Now Available.

miniLogger, a very small (4 classes and a 10KB jar) and easy to use logger.

Ian — Syndic8 Offering RSS Chapter Previews.

WebObjects 5.2.1 update posted.

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Russ — FUDility: Microsoft Goes Hardcore About Mobile Services.

Fred — Open Letter ot Sun Concering J2ee 1.4 Compliance Tetsing.

Steven — Open Source uptake in Belgium.

Book Review: Red Hat Linux 8 Bible.

WWDC moved to June 23-27 to show “Panther”.

How to capture, clean, and compress video. Part one of Ars Technica's guide to capturing, cleaning, and compressing video.

1-inch 1.5GB hard drive. Tiny new 1-inch 1.5 GB hard drive from Cornice that costs about half as much as Hitachi's 1GB Microdrive.

AT&T Wireless, Cingular roam in harmony. Roaming rates described only as “low”.

Dealtime Agrees to Buy Epinions. Dealtime, a Web site for comparing prices, has agreed to buy Epinions, a site that lets users write and read product reviews.

Hackers claim NSA breach. Hackers claim to have compromised a computer at the National Security Agency in Ft. Meade, Maryland.

LookSmart searches for volunteer PCs. LookSmart is hoping to spin a small acquisition into a big project that will use distributed computing to improve its Web search results.

Laszlo — 24-hour Programming Contest.

Lance — Using Custom Taskdefs.

On March 21, 1980 — U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced to the U.S. Olympic Team that they would not participate in the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow as a boycott against Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.

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New Casio Wrist Computer Made For Walking. The STR-400J-1JF Wrist Computer measures the consumption of calories, the walking distance, the number of steps.

Open Source vs, Commercial J2EE Containers. Marc Fluery (JBoss), Simon Phipps (Sun) and Tyler Jewel (BEA).

Matthew — What Is The Root Problem Between Sun and JBoss?

Matt — One Reason Not to Develop for .NET Compact Framework.

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SpamAssassin 2.51, a mail filter which attempts to identify spam using text analysis.

Illegal Internet Gambling Thriving. More than $2 billion will be illegally wagered by Americans through offshore Internet gambling sites this year.

Robert — Jalopy and Java source formatting.

Space-Based Programming heralds a new way of building distributed applications.

What's up with Mac OS X Java and QuickTime?

An XML Hero Reconsiders?

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Matt — J2EE 1.4 Installs just fine on OS X.

Carlos — AspectJ Patents Clarified.

Matt — Airport Extreme to Support Final 802.11g Standard.

PMD 0.5, a Java source code analyzer.

BS4j Alpha Release 0.9.0, a Build System for Java.

RSS Viewer 1.2.0, a Java-based ticker application.

JVerify 1.1, a system binary verifier.

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Tutorial: Create multi-purpose Web content with XSLT.

Tutorial: XHTML applications go mobile.

A JSTL primer: Getting down to the core.

Getting started with JML. Java Modeling Language

Roll your own distributed management solution. The Java-based Distributed Services Management offers a lightweight alternative to EJB technology.

Roaming charges: Wireless trendspotting 2003. Seven trends that'll rock your wireless world.

Gates Urges Developers to Write Pocket PC Apps. Microsoft .NET Compact Framework.

Sun ‘Calls JBoss bluff’ on J2EE compliance. Sun reaches out to JBoss.

Cisco acquires Linksys for $500M. Wow.

Informal Catalog of Mobile Phone Performances, Installations, Artworks.

MasterCard and MapInfo Offer First Wireless ATM Locator Service.

Matt— Clustering Tomcat 4.

Dominic — JBoss, Tomcat, Apache setup guides.

Andres — Eclipse RC3 is out.

Jose— Kasparov en tu telefono movil.

Chiara — WebWork rejected!!. by my company..

Matthew — Anniversary book.

Simon — Python UK Conference 2003.

Morgan — Codehaus.

First look at Toshiab's e750.

The ViewSonic V37.

Apple Responds To Bush Recount Demand. Bush Demands Recount In Gore's Board Election.

Linux takes backseat in new Motorola phone. Linux takes a “backseat” to Java and functions as “a vehicle to deliver Java, the enabler of the applications on the phone.”

F.D.A. Requires Bar Codes on Drugs. Bar codes will soon be required on every medication given to patients to make sure they get the correct dose of the right drug.

.NET PDA From Olivetti. daVinci DV@ Colour PDA,

Yahoo seals Inktomi deal. The portal giant completes its purchase of Web search technology company Inktomi.

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Haiko — News Roundup.

Nokia 7650 video recorder arrives.

Top 40 Wireless terms defined.

Steve — Apple called.

Dvorak: Apple will go Intel in 12-18 months.

I've created Red Hat 8 packages for imap-2001a-15 with DRAC support. Colin Bloch has included them with his installation instructions.

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Understanding LDAP (part 2).

FreeTTS, a speech synthesis system written entirely in Java.

Russ — Technical Leapfrogging: American Wireless.

Mark — The road to XHTML 2.0.

Matthew — iPod firmware update.

Steven — The raise of open source subsurbs.

Danny — Threat-Advisory.

Glen — Using antlr.

Java Serialization to XML 1.0.7.4, a system that automatically creates an XML file format.

New Palm smartphone from GroupSense.

Lindows CEO attacks Intel's Centrino Linux lockout. What air supplies did next?

On March 20, 1896 — U.S. Marines landed in Nicaragua to protect U.S. citizens in the wake of a revolution.

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JMP 0.28, a runtime profiler of the JVM, with object and method statistics.

David — Long live WROX.

Simon — TagUnit 0.9 almost ready.

Geoff — Re: JUnit Improvements.

Matt — Montavista Powers the Motorola A760.

Kevin — NewsMonster Beta 1.2.

Phillip — Goto statement considered useful.

Danny — JADE release 3.

Star Office 6.1 Beta 1 Released.

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New O'Reilly Java Books.

Russ — Samsung GPRS Watch: Yeah, Baby!

Joey — Developing .NET Compact Framework Applications.

Keith — Programming quickies.

Former US Vice President Al Gore joins Apple's board.

Patrick — C# FAQ.

Over 500,000 US tech jobs lost in 2 years.

Texas Congressman Wants To Throw File Trading College Students In Jail. Add Texas Rep. John Carter to the list of politicians who just don't get it.

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Review: Linux Server Hacks.

New Sun tools to simplify Java. Sun ONE Web Services Platform.

McNealy: .Net is a joke.

10 years ago — who knew…

Ken — IDEA plugin ToStringPlugin rocks.

Yannick — jgBlogger minor update.

Cedric — Java and C++.

Crowbar — Laughable Java 1.4 System Requirements.

Chris — How do I prevent my employer from claiming rights to open source work I do?

LCDs to outsell CRT monitors in 2003.

Insiders Made A Bundle On Secondary Stock Issues.

Programmers find Linux vulnerability. The vulnerability affects both the 2.2 and 2.4 series of Linux kernels.

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Eric Clapton Rocks Daughter's School Concert.

Eric — Sun's Lack of @since Tags Makes Me See Color.RED.

Matthew — Loox update.

The .mac Keychain Access ‘not a bug’ bug.

Head-mounted Pocket PC display launched. Interactive Imaging Systems’ Second Sight.

Watchmaker Jot's One Down for Wrist PDA. Fossil will bundle CIC's JotComplete with every unit of its new Wrist PDA.

Rogue message batters Euro cell phones. A short text message is spelling death for cell phones in Europe.

Amazon UK opens e-commerce engine to web developers.

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Interview With IBM's Middleware Chief. IBM Ups the Enterprise Ante.

Run Perl Script in Tomcat.Think it's difficult to run a Perl script in Tomcat? Think again.

Edit XML Content Visually. Use this free tool to simplify content management throughout the enterprise.

JProfiler 2.2 released.

Tom — US press don't get mobile.

Andrej — Application Server Matrix.

Rickard — Patent silliness.

SImon — Java Extreme Programming Cookbook.

Charles— JSR-666: extended operator set.

Janne — The Kevin Bacon game.

EJBCA 2.0, J2EE Certificate Authority.

OS X 10.2.4 bug exposes. Mac passwords.

New palmtop from Sony. Sony Vaio PCG-U101 runs Windows XP, has a 7.1-inch screen.

The 411 on 411 for cellphones. After years of hesitation, cellular providers are getting close to making wireless numbers available to 411 callers.

If you're doing J2ME development with Ant, you oughta check Antenna. I can't see myself building MIDlets or PRCs without it.

On March 19, 1918 — The U.S. Congress approved Daylight-Saving Time.