Yahoo are claiming that they now have an index for their search engine which covers 20.8 billion pages. This is larger than the previously known largest claim by Google of 11 billion.
UK High Street electronics retailer to stop selling 35mm cameras
UK High Street electronics store, Dixons, have announced that they will no longer sell 35mm cameras after the current stock has been sold.
This is a sure sign that regular 35mm cameras are destined for their place in history, to be replaced by the currently available digital cameras.
MS Cleartype – need my eyes checked…
Ok – so maybe I’m missing the point about Microsoft’s Cleartype technology, but I just spent a couple of hours today staring at my screen and wondering if I needed to get my eyes checked as everything looked fuzzy. Seems that the Cleartype font-smoothing had been enabled somehow, and instead of crisp text on my screen I had fuzzy/blury text. Doesn’t seem that great to me, although I think it’s more benefit on LCD screens, not CRT.
BEA plan to support scipting languages on server software
BEA Systems, developer of one of the leading Java Application Servers, Weblogic, have annouced that they are planning on supporting other development languages on the server software, and not just Java.
In particular, they are planning on supporting various scripting languages for the development of aplications to be deployed to their server, namely Jython (a Java flavor of Python), and even possibly Cold Fusion.
This is an interesting change of direction for an applicaiton server vendor who up until this point has been primarily focused on Java, and reinforces the fact that scriptig languages are gaining popularity in the development community.