
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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