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WhettStone is a sponsor for the Nebraska Nonprofit Summit coming Nov. 30th. For more information visit http://www.nonprofitam.org

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See WhettStone at the 2008 Eastern & Mid-Western Multi-Regional Employment & Training Conference, Nov 18-20 Hilton Omaha. One Stop WIA Program Software demonstrations available. In partnership with the Nebraska Indian Center.

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WhettStone Business Solutions has been nominated for the 2008 Millard Small Business of the Year Award. Each year the Millard Business Association recognizes outstanding businesses at the Millard Business Association Gala, "it is an honor to be nominated for such a prestigious award" -- Jim Hoing.

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WhettStone, Nonprofit Association of the Midlands, and First National Merchant Solutions work together to create an easy way for Nonprofit Organizations to accept online donations.

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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...