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Daily Dose - Java ME Devs Get a Testing Price Cut

The mobile manufacturers that make up the Unified Test Initiative have decided to lower the price of testing Java ME software on different mobile phones and...

0 replies - 11542 views - 06/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - GlassFish 3.0.1 Supports JRockit, OEL, and More

Although this "100 day" release of GlassFish 3.0.1 is relatively minor, there are several features that make this version noteworthy.  First,...

0 replies - 14572 views - 06/20/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Android 3.0 May Focus on the UI

Multiple sources at Google are saying that Android's "Gingerbread" (version 3.0) will attempt to refine the user experience to make it as likable as...

0 replies - 16699 views - 06/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - More Firefox 4 Features Leak Into Preview

The Firefox 3.7 Alpha 5 developer preview was released this week with the 1.9.3 alpha of Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine.  This release includes some...

0 replies - 13287 views - 06/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Twitter Tinkers With Redis

Twitter began using NoSQL last year as it rolled its systems onto the widely popular Cassandra system (used by large web properties such as Digg and...

0 replies - 13949 views - 06/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Tomcat 7: So Close You Can Taste It!

It's almost here!  Tomcat 7 RC4 just went live and it includes all the goodies that we've been anticipating since October '09.  Tomcat 7 will implement the...

0 replies - 19035 views - 06/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Will Patent Trolls Buy Novell?

Novell revealed last week that it was putting itself up for auction after turning down a $2 billion acquisition offer.  The thing that has the software...

0 replies - 13439 views - 05/31/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Mozilla and Opera Want VP8 in HTML5

In recent interviews, the CEO of Mozilla and the CTO of Opera have said that they support VP8's inclusion in the HTML5 specification.  However, all is not...

1 replies - 15974 views - 05/28/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Nero AG Hits MPEG-LA With Antitrust Lawsuit

The German tech company, Nero AG, is suing MPEG-LA on antitrust charges this week because of the organization's burgeoning patent pool which now encumbers...

0 replies - 14987 views - 05/24/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Spring Roo 1.1 Supports GWT, GAE, and Solr

With the first milestone release of Spring Roo 1.1.0, Project Lead Ben Alex says you can build a working web app with a Google Web Toolkit (GWT) front-end in...

0 replies - 24601 views - 05/19/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Data-as-a-Service: The data fabric for clouds

Never before has data storage and retrieval been more at the forefront of what's new and exciting in technology, and it's long overdue for a major update. ...

0 replies - 11346 views - 05/19/10 by Manik Surtani in Articles

How to Use Free and Almost Unlimited Cloud-Computing Resources From Google?

Distributed computing is a very beneficial way for computing certain kinds of distributable problems using a large number of computers (nodes). But what if...

4 replies - 7644 views - 05/19/10 by Krystian Lider in Articles

Daily Dose - No Closures in Java 7 After All?

David Flanagan doesn't seem to think so.  The programming consultant and writer for O'Reilly Media shared some frustrating observations about the lack of...

0 replies - 20723 views - 05/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - O3D Moves From Plugin to JS Library

The Chromium team didn't make its decision lightly, but they decided to start developing O3D, a 3D graphics API for the browser, as a JavaScript library on top...

0 replies - 14564 views - 05/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

SpringSource Acquires Gemstone Systems

SpringSource have continued their expansion today with the acquisition GemStone Systems, an enterprise data management solutions provider. This further enables...

1 replies - 4181 views - 05/06/10 by James Sugrue in News