Worst deal for Search dominance

db4o Maven snapshot repository is now available. Responding to a frequent request from the community, the db4o team now supplies Maven snapshots of both the stable and the trunk (continous) db4o builds. The repository is available at the following URL: https://source.db4o.com/maven The artifact layout corresponds to the structure you find in the regular downloads. It has changed between versions 7.4 and 7.12: In 7.12 they factored out the optional and cs (Client/Server) modules to become separate jars and supply a full (no dependency) jar that contains the full db4o distribution including all required and optional modules.

Starting today, developers worldwide can integrate LinkedIn into their business applications and Web sites. Developer.linkedin.com is now live and open for business.

Google quietly announced last week that its cloud will run nothing but open source software. This is a big deal, but let’s first admit why Google did it. As I have written many times, Google has a big cost advantage when it comes to delivering Internet resources.

The closure may be a hint that Google Voice is getting ready for its big debut

Apple’s SVP of product marketing says devs are actually happy with its practices

Ten years ago, Microsoft opened the Silicon Valley Campus, giving the company a foothold next door to the company's biggest competitors. Today, the site is Microsoft's second largest in the United States.

A story in Sunday’s Financial Times is reporting that Microsoft and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. have been holding preliminary talks to pull News Corp. content from Google, and for Bing to then pay a premium for that content. There’s quite a debate around the web on what such a deal would mean for Google, or Bing, for that matter.

Depth of field is a creative technique in photography that brings out the focus of a particular matter in the image. Most commonly known as DOF, it is the total distance between the nearest and furthest object that appear reasonably sharp in photography. There are three factors pertaining to the effect of the depth of field – lens focal length, aperture and shooting distance.

BBC News - China military site draws hackers

Learn how to handle rude interviewers in a job interview and why an interviewer might be pushing your buttons on purpose with expert interviewing tips in this free online career related video clip.

Everyone has had an interview that didn't go as well as it should have. Luckily, there are things you can do before, during and after an interview to ensure that your mistakes can be avoided or negated.

Nexan unveils a "Beast" of a storage system and Microsoft opens it's Surface SDK to everyone. SAP and Microsoft also form a marketing alliance that might irritate Oracle.

This edition of Discoveries This Week includes both the very best of what I saw at PDC 2009 and the most outstanding things I’ve glimpsed going on in the F# community. Please do enjoy.

Wow, what a week of innovation for the Microsoft Web Platform. This week we released a ton of new software which, if you haven’t already, you’ve got to check out. Here is a quick overview:

Larry Dignan: Google on Thursday revealed a bevy of noteworthy developments for its Chrome OS. The company released the Chrome OS to the open source community, laid out its security vision and promised to deliver a simple operating system. However, the success or failure of the Chrome OS will ride on whether users will give up desktop applications. Gallery tour: Chrome OS

After all open source brought lot of piece