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Daily Dose - OODT - The First Apache TLP Inductee of 2011

Apache OODT (Object-Oriented Data Technology) was originally developed in 1998 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  This week, the project was accepted as a...

0 replies - 22074 views - 01/06/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Firefox: Europe's New #1 Browser

Less than a year after Microsoft was forced to provide that "browser ballot" on setup (for Europe only), their browser (Internet Explorer) has lost...

0 replies - 21657 views - 01/05/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - A Year Later, Where Are They Now? - Sun Departures

2010 was a year of exodus for many Sun employees who disliked the new corporate philosophy under Oracle.  The blogger Pelegri has compiled a list of companies...

0 replies - 21881 views - 01/04/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - WP7 Marketplace Surpasses Palm's WebOS Store in Less Than 3 Months

Today, the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace recorded more than 5k applications in the store, which is just above the number in Palm's WebOS app store.  While the...

0 replies - 24941 views - 12/31/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Apple and App Makers Sued For Unauthorized Tracking

Affected customers have just sued Apple and other iOS app makers including Pandora and Dictionary.com for allegedly letting advertisers create iOS user...

0 replies - 22243 views - 12/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Nexus One Will Also Get Gingerbread

A tweet from the Google Nexus feed confirms that the older "Nexus" model will also get the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update over the air in a few...

0 replies - 25230 views - 12/23/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - What's the Honeycomb Version Number?

It looks like Google may hold on to the Android 3.0 title for another more spectacular future release.  As it stands, a source reports that the next version...

0 replies - 26818 views - 12/20/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Eclipse 3.7 and 4.1 Hit Milestone 4

Eclipse 3.7 "Indigo" and Eclipse 4.1, which is still aimed at early adopters, received new features in milestone 4 this week.  For both Eclipse...

0 replies - 26339 views - 12/14/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Salesforce Snatches Heroku for $212 million

The Ruby-based PaaS Heroku is going to be acquired by cloud pioneer Salesforce for $212 million in cash.  Compare that to the $13 million they raised in...

1 replies - 22250 views - 12/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Amazon Adds DNS to its Long List of Services

AWS announced that they are now providing a highly available Domain Name System service called "Route 53."  The new service is aimed at developers...

0 replies - 15354 views - 12/07/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Spring Mobile and Spring Android Go Live

SpringSource just announced two new projects to aid Spring users in mobile application development.  The first is Spring Mobile, which provides extensions to...

0 replies - 24453 views - 11/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Translating the PR-Speak in Oracle's Reply to the ASF

Over the last two days the back-and-forth over TCKs continued between Apache and Oracle.  Stephen Colebourne, a certified Java Champion, knows this issue very...

0 replies - 22531 views - 11/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Amazon Brings GPU Instances to Cloud Infrastructure Services

Amazon's eleventh EC2 instance type was unveiled this week, and it's quite similar to their Cluster Compute Instance.  However, this instance harnesses the...

0 replies - 23681 views - 11/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Django 1.3 Goes Alpha

The well-known Python-based web framework, Django, has delivered its first preview release for version 1.3.  This next version will allow developers to use a...

1 replies - 21096 views - 11/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - JBoss AS 7.0 Goes Alpha, AS 6.0 Finishing Up Beta

JBoss plans to keep the development train rolling for their open source application server.  While JBoss AS 6.0 is approaching the candidate release stage,...

0 replies - 20825 views - 11/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose