By now, you have probably heard the news: In an effort to turn around
its decline, Nokia will partner with Microsoft and mostly go Windows
Phone 7 (WP7) in the future. This post contains my thoughts on this.
8 replies - 5997 views - 02/14/11 by Axel Rauschmayer in News
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
JBoss plans to keep the development train rolling for their open source application server. While JBoss AS 6.0 is approaching the candidate release stage, JBoss is now releasing early builds of the next generation app server, 7.0. They announced the first...
0 replies - 18035 views - 11/11/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Today we'll get a glimpse into Microsoft's future in mobile computing as the first Windows Phone 7 handsets are released in UK stores. The models include the HTC 7 Mozart, Trophy, and HD along with Samsung's Omnia 7. Carrier options include Orange,...
0 replies - 14321 views - 10/20/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
JBoss delivered the final version of its Hibernate 3.5.4 maintenance release this week along with the first beta of 3.6, which adds some new features. First of all, 3.6 will drop support for JDK 1.4. It will also merge some modules into the core...
1 replies - 13652 views - 07/22/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Symbian's Product Dev Kit 3.0 adds the mobile runtime for Java applications (JRT) from Nokia this week, meaning developers can now write Java applications for the Symbian OS. This week, Symbian also announced that this was the first platform kit that was...
1 replies - 11506 views - 07/08/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Adobe is encouraging employees to eat their own mobile dogfood by giving them all free Android phones (which will soon be running Flash 10.1) at the Google I/O conference. This is an effort to promote company unity behind the iPhone's competitors after...
0 replies - 13730 views - 05/02/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
IBM has recently stopped providing breakouts of the US employee numbers in its annual report. The company has shown steady hiring outside of the US, especially in India, but the US workforce has been declining. US policymakers fear that IBMs hiding of...
0 replies - 17213 views - 03/16/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Although worldwide mobile phone sales had about a one-percent decline in 2009 according to Gartner, the year ended on a positive note with an 8.3% increase compared to Q4 of 2008. A survey of the worldwide mobile OS market share shows Symbian maintaining...
0 replies - 7457 views - 02/23/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Symbian Needs Volunteers
0 replies - 12624 views - 02/20/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The world's most widely used smartphone operating system, Symbian, is now completely open source. The Symbian Foundation made the announcement this morning that the entire Symbian 3 platform's source code, which is the result of more than ten years of...
0 replies - 4140 views - 02/04/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Qualcomm, a company known for CDMA technologies and the Snapdragon platform, has revealed plans to build a subsidiary focusing on open source mobile technologies. The new subsidiary, which has been named "The Qualcomm Innovation Center" (QuIC),...
0 replies - 3580 views - 10/27/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
The NetBeans 6.8 beta is finally available after
being delayed more than a month past the original release date. But
it's better late than never as NetBeans 6.8 has a ton of shiny new
features.
Look for the final release of 6.8 at the end of the year,...
1 replies - 3490 views - 10/24/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
It's so easy to get up and running with your first Windows Phone app! Just pick up the 
