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Daily Dose - Lift Raised to the Next Level

The Scala-based web framework, Lift, has reached version 2.1 with a few new features to add to the large list from 2.0.  The support is now tighter for the...

0 replies - 16720 views - 09/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Windows Phone 7 Launch is Oct. 11 Say Sources

According to several anonymous sources, allegedly from Microsoft, the GA launch of the Windows Phone 7 OS is scheduled for October 11th.  Pocket-lint said it...

0 replies - 18853 views - 09/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Android Doesn't Count Upgrades as Activations Either

Google responded to Steve Jobs' implications at the iPod/Apple TV/iOS presentation this week.   At the presentation he said that Apple estimates about 230k...

0 replies - 22749 views - 09/03/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Adobe's McAllister Speaks Out Against Oracle

In a recent blog entry, Adobe's open source and standards director David McAllister remarked that “the axis of evil has shifted south about 850 miles or...

0 replies - 22276 views - 08/25/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Google to Oracle: 'Bring it'

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 - 22948 views - 08/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Early Victory for SFC in GPL Violation Cases

This week the Software Freedom Conservancy won a default judgement and against Westinghouse Digital Electronics for not complying with the GPL in their use of...

0 replies - 14506 views - 08/05/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - PHP Language Update

The next version of PHP 5 has been released with over 100 bugfixes, some of which are security related.  PHP 5.3.3 may owe some of these bugfixes to the PHP...

0 replies - 12294 views - 07/23/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Can We Stop Talking About the iPhone Antenna Now?

In this week's edition of 'Media Frenzy Over Basically Nothing,' Apple finally called a press conference to end all the crazy talk about possible recalls and...

0 replies - 19428 views - 07/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Droid X Shuts Down If You Hack It

The Motorola Droid X phone was released this week, but a lot of reports said that hacking the phone would break the hardware as a secuity measure in the eFuse...

1 replies - 13939 views - 07/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - In the Future, Twelve Year Olds Will Write Your Android App

You heard me.  Along with its announcement of the Google App Inventor for Android, Google also mentioned that the free software had been tested on nursing...

0 replies - 12865 views - 07/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Java Apps Now Work on Symbian

Symbian's Product Dev Kit 3.0 adds the mobile runtime for Java applications (JRT) from Nokia this week, meaning developers can now write Java applications for...

1 replies - 14084 views - 07/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

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 - 11685 views - 06/23/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - The Winds of Change Blow for the OSI

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 - 11967 views - 06/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - OSI Approves WebM as Open Source

Google switched the custom license for their WebM package to the OSI-approved BSD license this weekend.  The Open Source Initiative had some issues with the...

0 replies - 11908 views - 06/07/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Developers Fix Drupal Module and Save Whitehouse.gov

The Drupal Context module is a release candidate, but it is still in use on many sites including the White House website.  Earlier this week, a cross-site...

0 replies - 16148 views - 05/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose