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Thomson Healthcare Debuts Free PDRHealth.com

The publishers behind the venerable Physicians' Desk Reference opened a new site for consumers based on the same information platform as the book.

AT&T: Nobody Wants Our $10 DSL

AT&T's new head is a smooth one, definitely Dapper Dan and not Fop. It takes a quarter-century of industry experience to tap dance around honest questions the way he does.

Google Docs To Get More Reference Sources

Piece o’ news number one: Google intends to make Encyclopedia Britannica, as well as Merriam-Webster’s dictionary and thesaurus, available in Google Docs.  Piece o’ news number two: if you don’t feel like waiting on the Mountain View-based company, you can access those same resources right now.

Silverlight for Opera

Completely missed in all the talk at Mix about Silverlight, Microsoft’s amazing development platform for rich applications, is the news that Silverlight is coming to the excellent Opera browser.

Online Resource For Small Business

There is a new online resource that is focused on providing useful information to small business owners and entrepreneurs. The Biz Info Library launched today providing access to information, ideas and insights on owning a company. “There’s too much information about entrepreneurship out there, so it’s difficult and time-consuming to determine what, and who to believe,” said venture capitalist and blogger Guy Kawasaki.” What’s needed is a vertical search engine for entrepreneurs and The Biz Info Library delivers on this need.”

Matt Asay: Sun Gets it - But What is it?

Matt Asay believes that Sun's rumored move to put the Java SE reference implementation under the GPL shows that "Sun is one of the few BigCo's" that really gets open source.

Landing Page Quick Reference Guide

A landing page is a website page that is created for one purpose - to persuade the site visitor to convert into a customer by making a sale, completing a form (thereby becoming a qualified lead), signing up for a newsletter, etc.

OpenJavaEE and OpenJDK

There's a lot of confusion about what Sun actually intends to do when they use the term "open source java".

IE7 Quick Reference Guide

The IE team has put together a great quick reference "cheat sheet" for Internet Explorer 7. It has all the keyboard shortcuts, including those for the new features. Some good ones:

Conspiracy Theories And AOL

AOL has made a few missteps in the past few months, with its ill-advised posting of millions of search queries to the Internet discovered on the eve of the biggest search engine conference of the year; one reader has suggested issues like these are not only self-inflicted, but intentionally so.