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Windows update brought Skype to its knees
Skype kept shtum about the cause of the massive breakdown of the Service infrastructure within the last days. They only emphesized that it was not a hacker attack. Now the company Skype sheds light on the reason: A patch of the Microsoft Windows operating system...
Railway Mobile Ticketing Field Trial of Die Bahn & Vodafone: Touch&Travel
In autumn 2007, the new e-ticketing - or more precise mobile ticketing - solution called "Touch&Travel" will be tested in a first pilot. The system, created by the German railway company Die Bahn and Vodafone is taking mobile ticketing in Germany to a...
Happy Birthday! Ruby-on-Rails 3-year-anniversary
Three years ago, David Heinemeier Hansson published the first release of Ruby on Rails to the public. The paradigmatic shift of programming web applications in an elegant, pragmatic way is a present to all of us. It's fun to draft and scaffold an application, to do...