A Brief Examination Of Mobile Telephony News.

About iTunes library files (Macworld)
Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:29:39 GMT We constantly tell you to back up your iTunes Library and iTunes Music Library.xml files when mucking with your iTunes library, but what are these things?

EBay's Project Echo set for private and public betas (BetaNews)
Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:25:16 GMT With a new application framework entering open beta early next year, eBay is working to build a kind of 'open' market for both developers and vendors to earn money, as a key eBay developer told BetaNews Tuesday.

Linked by Adam S on Thu 16th Feb 2006 05:07 UTC (New Mobile Computing)
Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:14:00 GMT Are IT people happier when they are fighting? OSNews, episode 2 can be downloaded as an MP3 (3.02 MB) or a Ogg Vorbis (4.77 MB) file. Our podcast is located at osnews.com/files/podcast.xml .

Groups want to keep coal fees (Moldova.org)
Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:14:31 GMT A coalition of conservation and community groups is calling on Congress to force coal companies to pay the U.S. government mining royalties.The Pennsylvania AML Campaign, comprised of 200 groups, has urged U.S. Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Bob Casey Jr., D-Pa., to strike language inserted into an unrelated tax bill that would mandate refunds of what it calls excise taxes on exported coal, the ...

California has introduced a bill to make open document format a mandatory requirement (OS News)
Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:41:26 GMT for agencies when acquiring software, turning up the heat on Microsoft. The bill follows similar legislation in Texas and Minnesota and adds further to the pressure on Microsoft which is pushing its own proprietary Office Open XML document format in the recently released Office 2007.

Google XML Sitemaps : Essential FAQ (Search Engine Journal)
Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:21:53 GMT A SEJ reader sent in the following question: Is it a must to create a sitemap for your site and submit it to Google? Can it harm? This is an often asked question, surprisingly. Webmaster forums keep discussing horror stories how their site traffic dropped after they created a sitemap and submitted it to Google Webmaster Tools. [...]

Enterprise Data Integration: Business Boon or Budget Breaker? (SYS-CON Media)
Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:36:30 GMT Data is king in today's information-driven economy, which is why organizations are willing to spend tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars on data integration frameworks and applications. These organizations understand two critical truths: they have yet to capitalize on the potential business value stored in relational databases, EDI, flat files, and XML-based systems; and they must ...

Microsoft Releases First Open XML SDK (Slashdot)
Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:39:46 GMT Kurtz'sKompund tips us to news that Microsoft has released a finished version of the Open XML software development kit. Microsoft has made additional resources available with the download. Quoting Techworld: "The SDK includes an application programming interface (API) simplifying the creation of code for searching documents, creating documents, validating document parts, modifying data and other ...

HBO acquires rights to Duke lacrosse book (Moldova.org)
Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:04:29 GMT HBO has acquired the film rights to the book It's Not About the Truth: The Untold Story of the Duke Lacrosse Case and the Lives It Shattered.The book was penned by Don Yaeger, a former Sports Illustrated associate editor, and Mike Pressler former Duke lacrosse coach.Based in part on a journal kept by Pressler during the weeks after the national scandal made headlines, the book chronicles what ...

What is RSS? (Beloit Daily News)
Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:31:15 GMT RSS is an easy way for you to keep updated automatically on Web sites you like. Instead of checking your favorite Web sites to see if they've written a new article or feature, you can use RSS (which stands for Really Simple Syndication) to get them to tell you every time they have something new.

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