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“764 users, 174 products, 33 suppliers, 1 Clarion Desktop.”

So, basically Bob’s information says “Support for Linq is being added to Clarion#.”. You think is great? I think it’s a waste of time NOW. Perhaps Linq is wonderful, but I seriously DOUBT I can be more productive with Linq than with an Application Generator. We need the Application Generator, I cannot even start using the thing without it - much less take any advantage of having Linq.
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TeamViewer establishes connections to any PC all around the world within just a few seconds. You can remote control your partner’s PC as if you were sitting right in front of it. Find out why more than 7.000.000 users trust TeamViewer!

Borland Software Corporation, the global leader in Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), today announced preliminary financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008. Borland also announced today a definitive agreement to sell the assets of its individual developer tools unit, CodeGear, to Embarcadero Technologies. The purchase price for CodeGear is expected to be approximately $23 million. Borland will also retain CodeGear’s accounts receivables with an approximate value of an additional $7 million. The transaction is expected to close by June 30, 2008.
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The OpenOffice.org Community is pleased to announce that the public beta release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 is now available. This beta release is made available to allow a broad user base to test and evaluate the next major version of OpenOffice.org, but is not recommended for production use at this stage.

If you are a regular user of OpenOffice.org, here’s a great opportunity to help us make the next release the best ever.
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This day is the greatest day in our (Russian) history. Today we are celebrate the capitulation of Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union in the Second World War.

Windows XP Service Pack 3 is now available for download

The iPhone popularized the idea of multitouch displays, and just last month, Microsoft brought the concept to a larger screen by releasing Surface, a multitouch table with a hefty $10,000 price tag. But now engineers at Eyebeam, an art and technology center based in New York, have created a scaled-down open-source version of Surface, called Cubit. By sharing the Cubit’s hardware schematics and software source code, the engineers are significantly reducing the cost of owning a multitouch table. But they’re also fostering innovation by giving engineers an open platform on which to develop novel multitouch applications–something that they’ve previously lacked.
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More and more, open source projects are either integrating with the web or are developed entirely for on-demand use. This requires strong web development skills–or at least good enough tools to rescue you if any of your web development skills are weak. The good news is that there are many free open source tools to help you with your web project, and given the costs of web development environments and the like, they can save you a lot of money. Here are more than five good examples.

Valutilities has released a maintenance update to vuSendKeys. This update fixes a problem with the newest functions that work with controls on other Windows. You can download Version 1.5 of vuSendKeys from here.

One of the coolest new tools for software developers The Build Automator has gone gold!

First, I must apologize. I know this is old news. But today I saw the Iron Man movie (quite awesome, I must say) and was inspired when I came home and did a search, “Iron Man open source” on Google. I was surprised that I actually had a lot of hits. One hit, in particular, was titled “Iron Man Now Comes With Proprietary Software.” This article quoted Matt Fraction (the series writer) saying: “Zeke is a post-national business man and kind of an open source ideological terrorist… He has absolutely no loyalty to any sort of law, creed, or credo. He doesn’t want to beat Tony Stark, he wants to make him obsolete. Windows wants to be on every computer desktop in the world, but Linux and Stane want to destroy the desktop. He’s the open source to Stark’s closed source oppressiveness.”
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Harnessing photosynthesis
Life extension and parallel human processing
Personal genomes and regenerative medicine
Collective intelligence
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Yahoo shares fell 15 percent Monday as hopes for the once-dominant Internet icon dimmed following Microsoft’s withdrawal of a $47.5 billion takeover bid.
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The Clarion.NET FAQ - Updated May 5, 2008
A list of frequently-asked questions about Clarion.NET/Clarion#, and some hopefully informative answers. Latest update: Clarion# performance as compared to Clarion 6.

PDF for April 2008
All articles for April 2008 in PDF format.