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Google Launches Google App Engine Web Services Infrastructure

Today, Google unveiled its Google App Engine for building web applications and services limited to the first 10,000 developers.

Yahoo! Launches Shine Website for Women

Accessorized to the hilt with more than 15 major publications - like Good Housekeeping, Allure and Glamour - Yahoo! has launched Shine, a new website to serve the growing population of women online.

Google, Wine, & Codeweavers make Photoshop Run on Linux

Stephen Shankland's Underexposed blog on CNet is reporting today that Google is funding development for Photoshop-on-Linux. But is porting of individual applications the right approach?

Google Android Releases New SDK for Mobile Development Platform

Last week, an update to Google's much-anticipated Android mobile development platform's SDK was released.

Yahoo! Gets Geeky with Open Source Project Hadoop

Tapping into its inner geek, Yahoo! has been working on an open-source grid project with Doug Cutting of Nutch and Lucene (Java-based search library and applications, etc.) fame. Distributed computing projects are all the rage these days and Yahoo! how has a chit in the "we can crank through terabytes too" grid computing game vs. Google.

Online Storage Sites Reviewed at Mashable

Pete and our friends at Mashable.com have a great post on 80+ online storage sites today.

What's That: HoneyMonkey

Honey monkeys are software used to detect malware and exploits in use by hackers even if these exploits have not been publicly reported. These automated applications simulate an average web user but collect data about any software that is installed or system changes that are made by a website.

Google Gears: The future of application development?

Google announced the beta release of Google Gears, a set of tools which allows developers to create desktop applications which integrate with online Google applications, like Google Maps.

What's That: AJAX - A "cleaner" user experience

AJAX is a collection of technologies that pass information from the application to the server without the intrusion and load time typically associated with most form-based web applications.

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