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ONE of the most elusive phenomena in the Universe could soon be measured for the first time after an Anglo-German team of scientists switched on a revamped detector designed to pick up gravitational waves. 
 
The Geo600 laboratory near Hanover is set to become the first to prove the existence of the waves — ripples in the [...]

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the availability of Adobe(R) Flash(R) Player 9 (formerly Flash Player 8.5), the next-generation Flash Player client runtime. Flash Player provides a more secure, lightweight, robust runtime environment for rich media and enterprise-ready rich Internet applications. Flash Player 9 achieves up to 10 times faster performance through ActionScript 3.0 and [...]

Databases: Microsoft’s elusive file system, WinFS, the one that was most recently supposed to be the feature in Vista, is now going to be included with the next version of SQL Server, code-named Katmai. Of course, this runs counter to what Microsoft said two weeks ago at TechEd, that it would be in a beta [...]

Microsoft unveiled an online collaborative software development and source code sharing portal at the Open Source Business Conference in London on June 17. CodePlex, which aims to offer capabilities similar to those provided by SourceForge, already hosts more than 30 collaborative development efforts, according to Microsoft.
Microsoft says CodePlex has logged more than 100,000 visits since [...]

The greater storage capacity of the Blu-ray Disc high-definition movie disc format is giving it an edge over the competing HD DVD format among Hollywood studios, Sony Corp. Chairman and CEO Howard Stringer said Monday.
 
 
Software engineers take key role at Stringer’s Sony
Microsoft enters the robotics market
Blu-ray Disc players, movies coming next week