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3rd Party Apps Coming To An iPhone Near You!

iPhone SDK and Apple Finally Listening — Apple Computer’s Steve Jobs just announced that Apple would (finally!) provide an iPhone SDK to 3rd party developers in order to enable them to create native applications for the iPhone (and, incidentally, also for the iPod touch). While the actual SDK won’t ship until February 2008, this announcement …

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Google Version 2.0: Googzilla – The Calculating Predator

Google Version 2.0: Googzilla – The Calculating Predator — Google’s database inventions by themselves, according to Stephen E. Arnold, who has written a patent-centric study of the company, show that Google’s research unit has superseded Bell Labs and Xerox PARC as the place for technical innovation in the U.S., if not the world. The new …

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Friday Song Of The Day – Online

This week’s Friday Song Of The Day comes to you from Brad Paisley. It’s his extremely and geeky Online. This song appears on the album titled 5th Gear. I work down at the pizza pit and I drive an old Hyundai I still live with my mom and dad I’m five foot three and overweight …

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FREE Book – Best Practices For Lightweight Code Review

Peer code review is happening behind the scenes at your competitor’s shop. Are they wasting their time or gaining a competitive advantage? What type of review actually works? 10 practical essays from industry experts giving specific techniques for effective peer code review: Cisco: The largest-ever case study of peer code review Modern experiments: results of …

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A Monster Phishing Scam

I just received an email from an Adrianna -at- Monster.com with the subject “Monster.com suggests You the new job, Jonathan Franzone.” I do have an account at monster.com, but I have never received an email like this so of course I opened it up to see what was up. My first indicator that this email …

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