Technology News of Note

AboutScrum.com Launched - 12/30/2008
A new website with videos, articles and other resources related to Scrum software development has launched. Scrum is an iterative incremental process of software development.
Internet Explorer Out of Band Security Update - 12/17/2008
An urgent security update was released on December 17th. The update concerns a vulnerability that could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer. Everyone should run a Windows update.
Silverlight 2 - 11/21/2008
Silverlight 2 has been installed on more than 100 million consumer machines. Over 1 in 4 computers on the Internet now have some version of Silverlight installed. The NBC Olympics site used Silverlight 2 for video coverage. Next year SL3 will ship. Visual Studio will support a designer and a tool for binding.
Brain Computer Interface - 11/3/2008
Researchers have been working on interfacing the brain directly to your computer. Very interesting stuff, it will be curious to see where this technology will be in 5 years.
Silverlight Netflix - 11/3/2008
Netflix is using Silverlight Technology to enable its Mac users to watch movies via their browser. This will help expand the install base of Silverlight increasing its coverage.
Windows 7 - 11/3/2008
Windows 7 beta was shown at the PDC, sound like it will have some nice features.
Stay Ahead of the Curve - 10/23/2008
Microsoft will be releasing an out of band update today. It covers all versions of windows. They recommend doing the update ASAP.
IE October Security Update Now Available - 10/17/2008
Keep your IE Browsers updated!!! This will help with new features as the Internet changes very rapidly, and keep you safe from possible harmful flaws.
Silverlight 2.0 Released - 10/17/2008
Microsoft just released version 2.0 of Silver Light. This is Microsoft's competitor of Adobe Flash, this is good for Whettstone customers as we will expand our website development technologies to include Silver Light. We will begin Hosting Silver Light Websites soon.
Welcome to Whettstone Tech News - 10/17/2008
We will be keeping our customers and whoever else wants to read, informed on news relating to software, the internet, and general technology topics. Stay tuned...