Sony, Panasonic, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, HTC. All big names in the
consumer electronics market. All struggling to find relevance in a
newly connected world.
Enter Apple, and Amazon?
Apple begin the revolution with the iPod, and iTunes. Vertical...
2 replies - 4386 views - 09/30/11 by Eric Daugherty in News
Less than a year after Microsoft was forced to provide that "browser ballot" on setup (for Europe only), their browser (Internet Explorer) has lost it's position as the top browser in Europe. Firefox is the new leader of the continent, even though...
0 replies - 18970 views - 01/05/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... 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 guest crashes on 32-bit hosts, and some out of memory issues. There are also some GUI updates and...
0 replies - 16562 views - 12/03/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Novell has finally found a buyer for every sector of its business this week. While many speculated that VMware was going to take the SUSE Linux division of Novell, it turns out that Attachmate is the main buyer and they will own this technology. The price...
0 replies - 19321 views - 11/26/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The US chief information officer announced the Obama administration's ambitious plans to upgrade the networks and services of all US government agencies to IPv6 by September 2012. Internal networks would be expected to be upgraded by September 2014. ...
0 replies - 13443 views - 10/03/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
In an investors meeting this week, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison told the board, "You’re going to see us buying chip companies." There's speculation that AMD or ARM could be targeted by Ellison's company in the next few months. This has lead to a...
0 replies - 14236 views - 09/24/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Ex-Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz is a CEO once more! He's started a new company called Informed Biometry. No one knows what they do yet, but it's great news for Schwartz. Now I want to know when he's going to write that 'tell all' biography. Or at least...
1 replies - 17891 views - 09/09/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The W3C is working to formalize a language of emotional states for computers. This would include more complex emoticons for human-to-human interaction as well as more human-like interaction capabilities for computers. Hopefully this means that some day...
0 replies - 18230 views - 08/30/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Determined not to make the same mistakes that Sun did when they bit off more than they could chew in some of their roadmaps, Oracle presented a more moderate amount of data today to outline their plans for the Solaris 11 operating system and SPARC systems. ...
1 replies - 5741 views - 08/11/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
It seems that the plans for Android 3.0 (aka.
0 replies - 8932 views - 07/01/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
A surprise decision by a US Judge finally ends the Viacom lawsuit for $1 billion against YouTube today. The decision was made to throw the case out after being filed 3 years earlier. The judge said that YouTube is protected under the DMCA's safe harbor...
0 replies - 7999 views - 06/23/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
After announcing the Managed
Runtime Initiative last week, Azul Systems pulled another trick out
of its hat today by announcing a pure software solution that utilizes
all of their code-based technology to expand Java's scalability without
the need for one...
0 replies - 8595 views - 06/22/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
Azul Systems, the employer of JVM Guru Dr.
2 replies - 9509 views - 06/16/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
A release this week from the Khronos Group, a consortium responsible for maintaining open standards such as WebGL, OpenMAX, and OpenGL, marks another major step in parallel processing and GPU access over multiple platforms. OpenCL 1.1 (Open Computing...
1 replies - 6048 views - 06/15/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
In recent interviews, the CEO of Mozilla and the CTO of Opera have said that they support VP8's inclusion in the HTML5 specification. However, all is not well right now in determining a license for WebM (the package that includes VP8). Google is having...
1 replies - 13596 views - 05/28/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
