PHP happens to have an easter egg too. Apparently different versions of PHP have different pictures of dog embedded in them. Check out our version of easter egg.

When Google made their newly acquired Urchin web analytics service available for free, some pundits claimed an untimely end to the web analytics industry. According to a recent report from Forrester Research High-end web analytics vendors have little to fear from Google Inc.'s free web analytics service.

Java has won the "TIOBE Programming Language of 2005" award. The Java language has increased its popularity in 2005 with 4.77%. This is the highest positive delta if compared to other programming languages. Congratulations to the Java team! Java version 5, released at the end of 2004, has definitely proven to be a step forward in strong typing with its generic types. We are looking forward to Java 6 in 2006! The runners up for 2005 are C# (+1.35%) and suprisingly Visual Basic (+1.17%).

According to Steve Jobs keynote address at Macworld, 14 million iPods were sold in the holiday quarter (compared to 4.5 million a year earlier); 8 million videos sold through iTunes since October 12, when videos were first offered.

United States Patent and Trademark Office released the annual list of top 10 organizations receiving most U.S. patents. IBM is still in the lead. Overall Japanese corporations dominates the top 10 list.