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Submission + - Exam board deletes C and PHP from CompSci A-levels (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by VitaminB52 on Wednesday May 12, 2010 @06:59PM

VitaminB52 writes: A-level computer science students will no longer be taught C, C# or PHP from next year following a decision to withdraw the languages by the largest UK exam board.
Schools teaching the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance's (AQA) COMP1 syllabus have been asked to use one of its other approved languages — Java, Pascal/Delphi, Python 2.6, Python 3.1, Visual Basic 6 and VB.Net 2008. Pascal/Delphi is "highly recommended" by the exam board because it is stable and was designed to teach programming and problem solving.

Submission + - EU fines Microsoft record $1.3B (cnn.com)

Submitted by VitaminB52 on Wednesday February 27, 2008 @07:45AM

VitaminB52 writes: The European Union fined Microsoft a record $1.3 billion for charging rivals too much for software information. EU regulators said the company charged "unreasonable prices" until last October to software developers who wanted to make products compatible with the Windows desktop operating system. The fine is the largest ever for a single company and the first time the EU has penalized a business for failing to obey an antitrust order.

Submission + - FireFox security problem a hoax ?

Submitted by VitaminB52 on Tuesday October 03, 2006 @06:20AM

VitaminB52 writes: In a recent /. article a FireFox security problem was reported. A new update about this 'security flaw' shows the problem report to be an attempt at being humorous. There is no security flaw, only a vulnerability that can be (ab)used to crash the browser.

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