
Less than a year after Microsoft was forced to provide that "browser ballot" on setup (for Europe only), their browser (Internet Explorer) has lost...
0 replies - 21646 views - 01/05/11 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 - 19153 views - 12/03/10 by Mitch Pronschinske 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...
0 replies - 22140 views - 11/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske 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...
0 replies - 15778 views - 10/03/10 by Mitch Pronschinske 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...
0 replies - 16098 views - 09/24/10 by Mitch Pronschinske 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...
1 replies - 20001 views - 09/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske 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...
0 replies - 20369 views - 08/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske 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...
1 replies - 6958 views - 08/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

It seems that the plans for Android 3.0 (aka. Gingerbread) are getting leaky as of late. The reports say that a 3.0 release could come as early as October...
0 replies - 10864 views - 07/01/10 by Mitch Pronschinske 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...
0 replies - 9635 views - 06/23/10 by Mitch Pronschinske 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...
0 replies - 10376 views - 06/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Azul Systems, the employer of JVM Guru Dr. Cliff Click, just announced an open initiative for improving managed runtimes. Java creator James Gosling says...
2 replies - 11202 views - 06/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske 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...
1 replies - 7377 views - 06/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske 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...
1 replies - 15966 views - 05/28/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

For years, IBM has been at the top of the server game, but a new study by Gartner says that HP is the new leader in server revenues. In Q1 of 2010 HP...
0 replies - 13460 views - 05/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose