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Daily Dose: Apple's "Magical" iPad 2 Revealed!

The much-anticipated release of the iPad 2 revealed a host of upgrades.  Apple's iPad 2 includes a lot of the big, expected new features like a dual-core 1GHz...

0 replies - 21101 views - 03/03/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - On April 4th, Co-Founder Larry Page Will Become CEO of Google

A shocker hit the wires today as Eric Schmidt announced on the Google blog that he would be stepping down as the search giant's CEO.  And who will take the...

0 replies - 14367 views - 01/21/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

rPath and CollabNet Partner to Unify Dev and Ops for Continuous Delivery

rPath, the service factory for on-demand IT, and CollabNet®, the leader in Agile application lifecycle management (Agile ALM) in the Cloud, today announced a...

0 replies - 3627 views - 11/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Announcements

Daily Dose - Lift 2.2 M1 Adds MVC Style Helpers

The Scala and Java-based web framework, Lift, is getting the first of many new features for the upcoming 2.2 version.  With the first milestone release this...

0 replies - 18184 views - 11/05/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

IBM + Oracle: The Big Picture

The announcement that IBM would be joining in the OpenJDK effort has received a lot of analysis already in the Java community. While a lot of people see this...

12 replies - 7826 views - 10/14/10 by James Sugrue in Articles

Google Car Project Means Google Could be the Next Google

For whatever reason, Google announced their automated car project on a Saturday afternoon. It almost feels like they were trying to bury this story, but...

0 replies - 5196 views - 10/11/10 by Robert Diana in Articles

Oracle "Leaning Heavily" Towards JDK 7/JDK 8 Feature Split

We've all known for some time that the JDK 7 development schedule was a bit too ambitious given the sudden addition of closures and the re-structuring after...

10 replies - 13847 views - 09/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

US Jury Busts One of EFF's 10 Dumbest Patents

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) found out this week that another one of their top 10 "Most Wanted" patents was shot down by a jury in...

0 replies - 5687 views - 08/24/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Oracle vs Google: Hoping For A Happy Ending

Like most Java developers, I feel disappointed in the lawsuit that Oracle has brought up against Google.  With Android, Java had become a key technology for...

6 replies - 5459 views - 08/16/10 by James Sugrue in Articles

Did Google "Sell Out" on Net Neutrality?

There's been plenty of buzz about Google's recent collaboration with Verizon on the subject of Net neutrality.  It's important to note that this collaboration...

2 replies - 6057 views - 08/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Daily Dose - Firefox 4 Getting Auto-Updates

Tucked away in a tiny corner of the Firefox discussion forum is a quote from Alex Faaborg, a principal designer on Firefox.  The posting says that Firefox 4...

0 replies - 19880 views - 08/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Google Wave Gone, But Not Quite A Failure

I'm sure most people have heard the news that Google are to cease development on Google Wave, one of their most hyped products, just a year since it's...

8 replies - 6176 views - 08/04/10 by James Sugrue in Articles

Daily Dose - DTrace Co-inventor Leaves Oracle

Yet another great developer has left Oracle this week.  Bryan Cantrill, the co-inventor of DTrace, gave a heartfelt farewell to the company he joined in...

2 replies - 14480 views - 07/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

The US Just Legalized Jailbreaking

One of the most significant changes U.S. Copyright Law relating to software was handed down today.  The new rules make it legal to "jailbreak" any...

0 replies - 9188 views - 07/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Daily Dose - GitHub Hits 1 Million Projects

Source hosting site, GitHub, reached more than one million projects over the weekend, according to their VP of R&D.  Around 60% of projects are full...

2 replies - 14283 views - 07/25/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose