Microsoft / Windows - Project Origami - The Ultra-Mobile PC

The Ultra-Mobile PC is portable, lightweight, and configured to connect on the go. It's the device that you'll always want with you.

Featuring full Microsoft Windows XP functionality and the ability to touch, write, or type, the Ultra-Mobile PC is a powerful companion that lets you communicate, accomplish your tasks, and stay entertained and informed wherever life takes you.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/umpc/default.mspx

Google - Google Acquires Writely

Google has acquired web word processor Writely.
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AJAX / CSS - Comet flash presentation

Alex Russell has posted slides for his ETech presentation on Comet. Comet is Alex's new term for push-style server-to-browser communication.
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POJ - Spring Framework 2.0 M3 released

Spring 2.0 M3 is the third milestone of the next generation of Spring: introducing a reworked validation framework, refined CommonJ support, JSP form tags, etc. It also contains fixes for various issues discovered since M2. See the changelog for details.
http://www.springframework.org/download

AJAX / CSS - DWR 1.1 Released

* The DHTML library (DWRUtil) has been improved, it?s now better at manipulating tables to have more detailed styling and filtering
* DWRUtil is also better at manipulating radio buttons, checkboxes, divs and spans.
* There are new Converters for Enums and Objects,
* And the BeanConverter can keep properties hidden from Javascript.
* There?s new experimental integration with Struts, JSF, Beehive.
* The Spring and Hibernate support has been improved, as has integration with various scripting languages.
* DWR now supports synchronous calling and improved error handling, timeouts and call hooks.
http://getahead.ltd.uk/dwr/changelog/dwr11

*ware Extend Firefox Contest winners list

Grand Prize Category Winners:

* Best New Extension Overall: Reveal by Michael Wu
* Best Upgraded Extension: Web Developer by Chris Pederick
* Best Use of New Firefox 1.5 Features: Firefox Showcase by Josep del Rio

http://developer.mozilla.org/contests/extendfirefox/

Misc - Anti Mosquito Software 1.0

This is a small (free) software that shall drive the mosquitoes away fast. Simple to use and useful. No need for any external devices.
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POJ - Apache Xerces-J 2.8.0 released

This release introduces several new validation related features and provides enhancements to the XML schema annotation support. All of the schema component interfaces in the XML Schema API now have a getAnnotations() method which returns a list of XSAnnotations. This includes annotations on particles and attribute uses which were previously "lost". In addition, in this release we implemented support for pretty-printing in the LSSerializer, repaired the warn-on-undeclared-elemdef feature which had been broken for several releases and fixed many other bugs.
http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/

AJAX / CSS - Comet: Low Latency Data for the Browser

Comet applications can deliver data to the client at any time, not only in response to user input. The data is delivered over a single, previously-opened connection. This approach reduces the latency for data delivery significantly.
While Comet is similar to Ajax in that it?s asynchronous, applications that implement the Comet style can communicate state changes with almost negligible latency. This makes it suitable for many types of monitoring and multi-user collaboration applications which would otherwise be difficult or impossible to handle in a browser without plugins.
http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/?p=545

POJ - Spring Web Flow 1.0 EA Released

This release is the proposal to the community for what will become Spring Web Flow 1.0 final. The release is considered feature complete for the SWF 1.0 roadmap.
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