I have just seen new Dell's Axim PDA, version X51v-624 . I am actually quite impressed, since it has almost everyting I want from a PDA: Windows Mobile 5.0, a lot of RAM, VGA screen, powerfull CPU and long-lasting library (if you buy the double-capacity one). If it only had the smart-phone features as well, mainly GSP chip, I would probably buy it. more »

The problem How many times you have to include multiple JavaScript files in your HTML pages? Do you have sections like this in your code: <script type=”text/javascript” scr=”/js/global.js”></script><script type=”text/javascript” scr=”/js/ua.js”></script><script type=”text/javascript” scr=”/js/menus.js”></script><script type=”text/javascript” scr=”/js/ajax.js”></script><script type=”text/javascript” scr=”/js/functions.js”></script><script type=”text/javascript” scr=”/js/extra.js”></script><script type=”text/javascript” scr=”/js/aux.js”></script> This example, not untypical for many complex sites, will cause your browser to request 7 extra JavaScript files from the web server! True, if you use a modern HTTP server, … more »

Well, even NY Times is shrinking in size. I hope that FT will follow the lead and eventually abandon their broadsheet style and start publishing in tabloid format. Although very against tradition, it is much more convenient to read in an overcrowded train or tube carriage. more »

Financial Times writes , that Google is about to launch its own on-line payment service, a rival to PayPal. This is not at all surprising, since Google has been expanding its basket of products recently. Given their powerful advertising base, they are almost doomed to succeed. And this new service will be one of the few which actually generates money, AdWord being the first, of course. more »

According to this article , IT students do not waste their precious time on doing their own assignments anymore. Instead they hire cheap developers from India and other places and for just a few pounds have their word done for them. I can't help recalling all the nights I spent writing code as part of my homework, after exhausting studies and a day shift at work... more »

It is nice to see that shared_ptr is finally making its way into C++ standard library. The question is, of course, when it will actually happen. The document was composed in 2003, but today no compiler ships with anything but std::auto_ptr. more »

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Once I read about a rather unusual fraud scheme. In essence, some 1000 random people would receive letters, 500 of which claimed, that stock A would go up, and the other 500 that it would go down during the next NY Stock Exchange trading day - all based on their new ground braking prediction models or insider information. Well, it is not hard to realize, that at least half of … more »

Awhile ago I read an interesting article (and another one ) about bottled water popularity. According to its authors, selling mineral water is a genius business idea, but the product has very little to offer to an average consumer in the Western world, especially where tap water is good. It connects, actually, to a not so recent scandal in the UK, when Coca-Cola was caught red-handed pouring tap water into … more »

An interesting paper from you know whom, talking about new features, planned for the next version of C++ (yes, someone works on C++ too). It looks quite nice the way they describe it, but given previous attempts to improve it, I wouldn't be surprised, if the extension turned the arithmetic operators into a super-Turing language, with its own intellect more powerful than that of an average Nobel prize winner. more »