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Daily Dose - Firefox: Europe's New #1 Browser

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

Daily Dose - VirtualBox Update from Oracle

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

Daily Dose - Someone Finally Buys Novell

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

Daily Dose - US Government to Upgrade to IPv6 by 2012

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

Daily Dose - Oracle Covets Thy Chipmakers

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

Daily Dose - Schwartz Takes New CEO Position

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

Daily Dose - The Emotion Markup Language

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

Oracle Outlines Solaris Roadmap; Other Projects Not So Lucky

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

Android 3.0 to be a High-Performance Version?

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

Daily Dose - YouTube is Safe from Viacom

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

Azul Making Java "Zing"

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

Gosling Praises Azul Open Source Initiative

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

OpenCL 1.1 is Here

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

Daily Dose - Mozilla and Opera Want VP8 in HTML5

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

Daily Dose - HP Trumps IBM in Server Revenue

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