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Email turns 35

Monday, November 27, 2006 by Salman Siddiqui

BELIEVE it or not, the email has just turned 35.

IT programmer Ray Tomlinson sent the first message in late 1971.

"The test messages were entirely forgettable and I have, therefore, forgotten them. Most likely the first message was QWERTYUIOP or something similar," he says.

And now, 35 years on, we'd be completely lost without the joys of emailing!

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Sun 'releases' Java to the world

Wednesday, November 15, 2006 by Salman Siddiqui

Finally Java goes fully open source. After almost 10 years of its release this could really be the nuclear bomb step for java environment. All the java soruce code is set to be released by 2007.

Analysts have said the decision would likely extend the life of Java, which was released more than a decade ago, and boost business for the company.

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