<b>Chao-Kuei's Notes: </b>"Human rights are gradually eroding at several fronts as international interest groups lobby and pressure governments all over the globe to 'protect copyright' using big-brother-like information and communication technologies (ICT)."
<b>Rms-Mit:</b> "I believe that Virtual Desktops and multi-monitor controls can be merged to make both more flexible and easy to use. I also believe that merging these concepts will simplify the virtual desktop & multi-monitor concepts."
<b>The H Open:</b> "Almost two months after the technical preview was released, the development of version 4.7 of the cross-platform Qt C++ framework for GUI applications is beginning to take shape, as Nokia has now presented a beta version."
<b>Phoronix:</b> "According to the release plans, the release of X Server 1.8 should take place, and while in reality it will likely not be released today, its release is coming soon. When this release does arrive, it will add a new set of features to the X.Org stack and a number of other minor improvements and bug-fixes."
The introduction of the xml data type, with its own set of methods for processing xml data, made it possible for SQL Server developers to create columns and variables of the type xml. Deanna Dicken examines the modify() method, which provides for data manipulation of the XML data stored in the xml data type via XML DML statements.
<b>Linux Magazine:</b> "At last year's event participants received Android phones with a free month of service, fueling speculation that this year's attendees may receive some goodies as well."
In this month’s Patch Tuesday, software giant Microsoft releases one of the largest bundles of security fixes ever, but not one for the latest zero-day.
<b>SF Gate:</b> "Police raided Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's home in Fremont, Calif. last week, seizing computers and other gadgets, as detectives probe how the gadget blog obtained an Apple iPhone prototype, which the blog first published photos and videos of last Monday."
<b>Royal Pingdom:</b> "So what kind of code names are developers out there coming up with? Here is a collection of code names for software products from companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Canonical, Red Hat, Adobe, Mozilla, Automattic and more."
As rumors swirl of a big announcement with Intel, Google gets ready for its annual Google developers conference this week that will showcase a number of mobile advances for Android and other technologies the search giant is working on.