Google - Google News in Portuguese

http://news.google.pt/

Google - Google purchasing Riya?

Photo service Riya has been acquired by Google for close to $40 million according to sources involved with the company. Riya uses face recognition technology to identify people in photos. The system can also recognize text such as street signs.
http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2005/11/google_purchasi.html

*ware - Firefox 1.5rc3 released

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POJ - Apache Continuum 1.0.1 Released

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of Continuum 1.0.1, a continuous integration server with support for Maven 1 and 2, Ant, and shell scripts.

This release includes the following improvements :
* Support for domain names and ssl in jabber notifier
* Support for registered nicks in irc notifier
* Support for shell commands defined in user path
* Improved cron expression validator
* Bug fixes
http://maven.apache.org/continuum/download.html

Microsoft / Windows - Windows Genuine Advantage for FireFox

Microsoft has shipped a plug-in for Mozilla browsers to support Windows Genuine Advantage.
Windows Genuine Advantage Plug-in installation

*ware - NetBeans IDE 5.0 beta 2 released

Here are some of the cool features in this release:

* Developing NetBeans Modules
* Matisse GUI Builder
* Servers
* Web Frameworks
* Web Services
* Editor Enhancements
* Code Completion
* Refactoring
* Version Control
* Debugging
* Other Usability Improvements
* New NetBeans Add-on Packs

http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/50/

POJ - Ajax JSP Tag Library 1.1.5 released

The AJAX Tag Library is a set of JSP tags that simplify the use of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) technology in JavaServer Pages. This tag library eases development by not forcing J2EE developers to write the necessary JavaScript to implement an AJAX-capable web form.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ajaxtags/

Google - Google Base

Google Base enables content owners to easily make their information searchable online. Anyone, from large companies to website owners and individuals, can use it to submit their content in the form of data items. We'll host the items and make them searchable for free. There's more info here.

POJ - Jakarta Commons Validator 1.2.0 released

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Misc - How much of your favorite caffeinated drink would it take to kill you?

http://www.energyfiend.com/death-by-caffeine/

Google - Mercora IM Radio for Google Talk

Now, Google Talk users can enjoy an immersive music listening experience from friends and people all over the world.

Mercora IM radio for Google Talk is in beta and requires you to have a Google Talk username and password.
http://www.mercora.com/gtalk/

Web App Frameworks - Spring Framework 1.2.6 Released

Spring 1.2.6 has just been released. This is a bugfix and minor enhancement release, fixing a number of issues found in previous 1.2.x releases and introducing various minor new features.

As always, for a full list of enhancements and fixes, please see the changelog.

http://www.springframework.org/download

POJ - Jakarta Velocity Tools 1.2 released

This release offers numerous useful new generic and VelocityView tools, compatibility with Struts 1.2.x, and several bug fixes. For a complete list of changes, see the change log.
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_velocity.cgi

*ware - FolderShare is now free

FolderShare is now free thanks to Microsoft which has recently bought the company (see Microsoft buys FolderShare).
FolderShare allows you to create a private peer-to-peer network that will help you to synchronize files across multiple devices and access or share files with colleagues and friends.
https://www.foldershare.com/index.php?

Misc - 2005 last minute to be of 61 seconds

A positive leap second is to be introduced into the international time scale, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), at the end of December 2005.
http://www.npl.co.uk/time/leap_second.html

Web App Frameworks - Jakarta Tapestry 4.0-beta-13 released

Tapestry is a component based web application framework that provides lots of functionality with minimal Java coding, and creates an environment that supports high levels of reuse. This release fixed problems with client-side JavaScript for several components. The request cycle object is now an injectable service, and the signatures of several methods in several interfaces were changed to remove it. In addition, a new facility was added that allows services to report their internal state as part of the default Exception page.
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