According to a recent survey on a variety of development topics conducted by Evans Data, Mac operating systems have moved ahead of Linux in popularity as a development environment. Although Windows remains the most popular operating system for development...
0 replies - 18436 views - 08/09/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
Yesterday, Apple won two preliminary patents against HTC, which could be a huge blow to both Google and HTC products and could mean a ban on HTC and potentially other Android smartphones. Today, Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt announced their support...
0 replies - 16261 views - 07/19/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
You might remember that Apple filed an infringement suit against handset-maker HTC earlier this year based on several patents. Some saw this as an indirect attack on Android, since HTC makes the most Android phones. HTC promptly fired back with its own...
0 replies - 10953 views - 06/27/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
David Flanagan doesn't seem to think so. The programming consultant and writer for O'Reilly Media shared some frustrating observations about the lack of progress on Project Lambda this week. Currently at version 0.15, Project Lambda's mailing list...
0 replies - 17345 views - 05/12/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Taiwanese handset maker, HTC, released a statement listing all the "firsts" that they achieved in mobile device manufacturing as a response to Apple's claim that HTC is stealing their ideas (and the pending lawsuit). "We feel confident in our...
0 replies - 14558 views - 03/18/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
EU Expected to Approve Microsoft-Yahoo Team-up The EU is set to approve the search outsourcing deal between Yahoo and Microsoft, reports Reuters. The announcement could come any time between now and Friday, February 19th, which is the deadline for a...
0 replies - 12764 views - 02/17/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Firefox may release its upcoming version 3.6 as a so-called "minor update" even though it is actually a fairly major one. Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox at Mozilla, details the reasons for this unusual step on a Mozilla developer's list...
0 replies - 7302 views - 10/22/09 by Lyndsey Clevesy in News
