Thursday, July 22, 2004

poker3D 0.1.53 freshmeat.net by Loic Dachary at July 22, 2004, 8:26 am (cached at July 22, 2004, 10:39 am) poker3d is a poker server and client. The client shows poker players in a 3D scene, animated according to the state of the game. Up to ten players can play hands of Texas Hold'em, Stud 7, Omaha, or Omaha8. Single and multi-table sit-and-go tournaments are automatically spawned. The client may play up to 4 games simultaneously. An accelerated 3D card is recommended to run the client. 2:16:40 PM    comment []  trackback []

Scripting News (cached at July 22, 2004, 10:52 am) Microsoft's browser development team has a blog. I hear there's a new browser coming pretty soon. Scoble says they're hiring. 10:58:52 AM    comment []  trackback []

Software Review: Layout Master 1.1 WebReference News (cached at July 22, 2004, 7:40 am) Creating a layout with CSS can be quite complicated. And even though some WYSIWYG HTML editors offer visual authoring, many Web designers prefer to code by hand. Layout Master 1.1 is a powerful editing tool designed to help remedy that problem. By Lee Underwood. 0722 10:54:38 AM    comment []  trackback []

Verizon Seen Introducing Phone Service via Internet The New York Times > Technology (cached at July 22, 2004, 1:40 am) Verizon, the nation's biggest telephone company, is introducing Internet-based phone service to customers across the nation. 10:42:53 AM    comment []  trackback []

Thomson is Blogging Library Stuff by Steven M. Cohen at July 21, 2004, 11:21 pm (cached at July 21, 2004, 11:39 pm) The Web Services Committee of Thomson has started a weblog (RSS Feed). This is wonderful news. Thomson is beginning to see the powers of weblogs/RSS and have for a while (they have their Westlaw alerts svailable via RSS). I'm going to have to check for a list of companies that they own and see if they are doing anything weblog/RSS related as well. Hello? Lexis? Anybody home over there? They even kinda have their own web-based aggregator, which is pretty bare bones, but impressive nonetheless. 9:33:28 AM    comment []  trackback []

Microsoft, Apple sued for offering online updates InfoWorld: Top News (cached at July 21, 2004, 8:39 am) U.K.-based BTG Plc has sued Microsoft Corp. and Apple Computer Inc. for allegedly infringing a patent that covers Web-enabled software update technologies, the company announced Wednesday. 9:28:17 AM    comment []  trackback []

ICANN Preps for IPv6 eWEEK Technology News (cached at July 21, 2004, 10:39 pm) The domain-name oversight body says root servers are accepting IPv6 addresses, a needed technical step for broader adoption of next-generation IP. 9:22:40 AM    comment []  trackback []

Michigan judge throws out SCO lawsuit against DaimlerChrysler Computerworld News (cached at July 21, 2004, 5:39 pm) DaimlerChrysler argued that it had provided The SCO Group with the compliance certification the Unix vendor had sought -- even as the automaker argued that it had not been required to do so. 9:20:56 AM    comment []  trackback []