After several weeks of rumors, Microsoft has officially announced their plan to acquire Skype. The $8.5 billion dollar buy is the largest Microsoft has...
0 replies - 18836 views - 05/10/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
The new release of the Ruby on Rails web development framework, version 3.1, will feature HTTP support. This additional support will serve to improve overall...
0 replies - 23983 views - 04/25/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
Hedging their defenses against litigious competitors, Google is poised to spend $900,000,000 on a collection of Nortel patents. Nortel has selected Google's...
0 replies - 10862 views - 04/05/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
Users of Java SE and Java for Business can now code in a less error-prone environment. Update 24 for Java 6 spells the end of the floating point bug reported...
0 replies - 30475 views - 02/17/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
Contracted code in Java can reveal failures much closer to their fault, shaving hours off your debugging sessions. It's good news then that Google has just...
1 replies - 27424 views - 02/06/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
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The four JSRs behind Java 7 and Java 8 were recently approved by the Executive Committee. However, there was a good deal of discontent among members who...
0 replies - 25677 views - 12/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The Oracle VM VirtualBox has reached version 3.2.12. The virtualization app for x86 hardware just received about 20 bugfixes fixing stability issues, 64-bit...
0 replies - 19146 views - 12/03/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Whatever happened to that October release planned for the Chrome web app store? It hit a snag apparently, but now there are signs that Google may have it...
0 replies - 17539 views - 12/02/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
A new beta release of NetBeans 7.0 is the first to provide JDK 7 support, allowing developers to choose Java 7 (still in development) as their target platform...
1 replies - 27720 views - 11/23/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The first beta for JBoss' Seam 3.0 framework is now available. It requires Weld 1.0.1 Beta 1+ and JBoss logging instead of SLF4J. This release includes an...
1 replies - 20001 views - 11/04/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
A study from researchers at Duke University, Penn State University, and Intel Labs has discovered that 15 out of 30 popular Android applications selected at...
1 replies - 18018 views - 10/02/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The first beta of the Virgo Web Server (formerly the Spring dm Server) is getting very close now that the Eclipse Foundation released the fourth milestone...
0 replies - 18617 views - 09/07/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
LinkedIn has tracked approximately 118 former Google employees who have left after Facebook made offers that they couldn't refuse. These offers likely...
2 replies - 18786 views - 09/06/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
