Several reports are saying that the Chrome operating system will be here by the end of November. That's because on November 26th, Google plans to release a...
0 replies - 24087 views - 08/19/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Two years have passed since the release of Vim 7.2, and today version 7.3 is here with a few improvements, but nothing major. Vim has remained a consistently...
0 replies - 21080 views - 08/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
In a statement sent out to the media late last week, Google announced its intentions to defend open source and protect Android (and the Dalvik JVM) against the...
1 replies - 22796 views - 08/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The third alpha release of Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" is upon us. Based on the 2.6.35 Linux kernel, Ubuntu 10.10 a3 has updated to GNOME 2.31...
0 replies - 15477 views - 08/06/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
By introducing a central licensing server on the Android Marketplace, Google hopes to provide an effective method for protecting Android apps that can...
0 replies - 12898 views - 07/28/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Since the last beta, Ruby on Rails 3.0 has had over 842 commits by 125 developers. That's the level of polish you can expect when you download the first...
0 replies - 15469 views - 07/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Real time alerts are a wonderful convenience in today's native apps, but now the W3C wants to bring this functionality to web apps. This week they formed a...
0 replies - 13708 views - 07/02/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
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 - 14562 views - 06/21/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
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 - 13275 views - 06/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Simon Phipps acknowledged some of the "stone throwing" aimed at the Open Source Initiative. Some of the criticism, he said, was not without...
2 replies - 11836 views - 06/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
An official Google message posted by a non-Google party revealed a thin client functionality called Chromoting (unofficially). Chromoting will be built into...
0 replies - 13431 views - 06/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
A security breach exposed an exclusive email list of early-adopter iPad 3G subscribers, which included White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Diane Sawyer of...
0 replies - 15337 views - 06/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Project release manager Vincent Untz posted a synopsis of the new modules that will be included in GNOME 3.0. The GNOME Activity Journal didn't make the cut...
0 replies - 14636 views - 06/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The latest developer channel version of Chrome now has support for WebM, which includes the VP8 video codec. Believe it or not, Chrome is actually the third...
0 replies - 12588 views - 06/05/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
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 - 13428 views - 06/01/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
