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JavaServer Pages has been in the web developer arsenal for several years, but "Ruby on Rails" author Bruce Tate thinks Ruby may offer a better approach to web page development.

Based on the current rate of registrations taking place, Microsoft's Office Live service will pass 100,000 registered users during July, at a pace that is almost as fast as Yahoo's web hosting growth.

Details, details-such is the Achilles' Hell of the visionary temperament. When Google put forth a massive online literary digitization effort, the scholar, the literati, the purist self-educator, the mousey, bucked-toothed, four-eyed little girl in all of us cheered the soon-to-be nearer reach of all those words. But visions, especially the grandiose, face the speed bumps, the hurdles, of real world logic-or worse, lawyers.

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia announced its results for the fourth quarter and full-year period ended December 31, 2004.