A free 10-week "AJAX Programming" online course is about to start from August 4th, 2006. This course is for anyone who wants to learn AJAX for the first time or increase their knowledge on AJAX.

Google Talk, Google's instant messaging service ranks at the bottom of the overall ranking, which is dominated by MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger according to ComScore Media Metrix.

Microsoft announced launching of "CRM Live" service along with the next version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The announcement is pretty interesting. "The coolest work we’re doing is that we’re building a single code base that will support on-premises deployments, partner hosted deployments, and the Microsoft Live service. "

Free Java EE 5 Tutorial and a nice introduction to Java EE (Enterprise Edition) 5 from Sun (what more to say?).

Intel said that it would lay off 1,000 managers which is about 1 percent of its work force. Last month, Intel said it would sell its money-losing communications chip business to Marvell Technology Group for $600 million. via NYT