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Mitch Pronschinske04/02/10
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Daily Dose - We Live in a World Where There Are iPads

Apple's "next big thing" was released in stores today, but the apps have been available since yesterday. These pre-release apps included Netflix streaming movies, the ABC player, a Marvel Comics reader, and a VNC client that wirelessly connects to...

Mitch Pronschinske04/01/10
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Daily Dose - Mozilla Research Says Firefox Just Under 40% Market Share in Europe

The Mozilla Metrics blog announced the publishing of the foundation's first ever quarterly analyst report on browser share and other internet insights. The report says that Firefox currently has a global market share of nearly 30% and in Europe, that share...

Mitch Pronschinske03/31/10
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Daily Dose - OSS Victory in Italy, But Trouble Brewing in EU

A law passed by an Italian regional council that made preferences for choosing free software in government systems was recently upheld in a national court. The Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers challenged the law saying it was...

Mitch Pronschinske03/30/10
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Daily Dose - Novell Keeps Unix Copyrights; Linux is Safe

A US federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Novell owns the Unix copyrights, and not SCO. In the 7-year court battle, SCO claimed that copyrights transferred from their predecessor, the Santa Cruz Operation, to them. In the court ruling, the judge said that...

Mitch Pronschinske03/29/10
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Daily Dose - Councilman Offers to Name Children After Google Founders for Fiber-Optic Network

You may have heard that Google is looking for deserving US cities and towns to host their experimental 1GBps fiber-optic networks. The competition for these networks is getting intense… and weird. One local government official in Raleigh, North Carolina...

Mitch Pronschinske03/28/10
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Daily Dose - Solaris 10 License Change

At some point during the Oracle-Sun integration, Solaris 10 had a change in its usage terms which has caused some confusion on tech news sites and blogs. The change is described in this quote from the licensing terms: "Once you have completed the...

Mitch Pronschinske03/26/10
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Daily Dose - Adobe Teases with CS5 Release Date

Adobe has launched a teaser site announcing the release date of Creative Suite 5. The site contains several videos introducing a handful of new features, but the pricing, specs, and other features are being kept under wraps until the launch date...

Mitch Pronschinske03/25/10
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Daily Dose - De Icaza Interview About .Net Taken Down

In an article titled "Does Windows cost Microsoft opportunities" by the SD Times, Novell VP and Mono Project lead Miguel de Icaza had some strong opinions about Microsoft's handling of the .NET platform. For reasons unknown, the article has been...

Mitch Pronschinske03/25/10
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Terracotta and EnterpriseDB Team Up For High-Performance Private Clouds

Terracotta recently announced another strategic alliance, this time with EnterpriseDB, a PostgresSQL-based database vendor. Their partnership is aimed at addressing the technical challenges in scaling the data layer in private clouds. Under their...

Mitch Pronschinske03/24/10
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Daily Dose - AWS Releases Java SDK for EC2, S3, and More

Amazon announced an update for its Eclipse toolkit at EclipseCon along with a new Java SDK. The development kit is a single JAR that helps developers manage integrations to Amazon's many services. Amazon's code handles all the low-level authentication,...

Mitch Pronschinske03/23/10
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Daily Dose - Opera Submits its Mini Browser to Apple, Now We Wait

Opera has finally announced its submission of the latest Opera Mini browser to the App store for use on the iPhone. The mini browser is not a full featured browser but it does have a speed advantage, especially in low bandwidth situations. It runs...

Mitch Pronschinske03/22/10
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Daily Dose - EU Ballot Causing a Drop in IE Usage

Since the browser ballot, which was mandated by European regulators, was implemented for Windows users, the market share for Internet Explorer has been falling. IE usage has dropped 2.5% in France, 1.3% in Italy, and 1% in the UK. In contrast, Opera, the...

Mitch Pronschinske03/21/10
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Daily Dose - Ubuntu "Lucid Lynx" Beta 1 on the Prowl

Ubuntu LTS 10.04 (aka Lucid Lynx) has just reached beta 1. The beta comes with a new look for the operating system and is based on the 2.6.32.9 Linux kernel. The depreciated HAL package has been removed for faster booting and there is built-in social...

Mitch Pronschinske03/19/10
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Daily Dose - Hibernate Migrates to JBoss Community

JBoss has just finished migrating Hibernate.org to the JBoss Community portal, where many other JBoss projects are housed. The project pages have been transferred to the Magnolia instance and the community wiki is now on the Clearspace instance. Aside...

Mitch Pronschinske03/18/10
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Daily Dose - HTC Prepares to Defend Itself Against Apple

Taiwanese handset maker, HTC, released a statement listing all the "firsts" that they achieved in mobile device manufacturing as a response to Apple's claim that HTC is stealing their ideas (and the pending lawsuit). "We feel confident in our...