The W3C created two new platforms for developing specifications, with the intent of getting more input from individuals and organizations. The two platforms (Community Groups and Business Groups) were created with the intent of speeding up the development...
0 replies - 23585 views - 08/17/11 by Jim Moscater 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 - 19310 views - 11/26/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Security analysts from F-Secure.com are concerned about the JailbreakMe.com exploit that allows the site to jailbreak iPhones and iPads. In an easily understandable Q&A they answered questions about this vulnerability and the risks it poses to every...
0 replies - 12322 views - 08/06/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
This week the Software Freedom Conservancy won a default judgement and against Westinghouse Digital Electronics for not complying with the GPL in their use of BusyBox software within their products. Near the end of 2009, the SFC began their legal action...
0 replies - 12237 views - 08/04/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Source hosting site, GitHub, reached more than one million projects over the weekend, according to their VP of R&D. Around 60% of projects are full repositories while 40% are "gists" - short code snippets. GitHub launched in February of...
2 replies - 11941 views - 07/25/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The test automation vendor Automation Anywhere really liked the movie "Avatar". They liked it so much that it inspired the creation of their newest utility for their recently-launched Testing Anywhere 6.5 product. DZone asked Automation Anywhere...
0 replies - 10108 views - 07/13/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
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 - 7982 views - 06/23/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
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 - 13587 views - 05/28/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Mono Project lead Miguel de Icaza recently suggested that web developers could write much better applications if the Common Language Infrastructure (CLR), upon which the .NET framework sits, were integrated into today's browsers. de Icaza says it would give...
1 replies - 13097 views - 05/04/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The official Linux tree will be getting a nice present from Google very soon. The company recently assigned two developers to begin integrating features back into the Linux tree that Google created in its Android Linux kernel development. Integrating some...
0 replies - 13630 views - 04/30/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Sony announced that they will stop selling floppy discs this year, making them the final manufacturer to halt their production. You may not believe it, but even up until 2008, the company could still sell 8.5 million floppy disks just in Japan. Now demand...
1 replies - 11535 views - 04/26/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Verizon is Getting Nexus One and so is Europe
0 replies - 20223 views - 03/04/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Russia Now Stands Between Oracle and Sun
2 replies - 16520 views - 01/15/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
FTC Accuses Intel of Stunting AMD Chip Performance
0 replies - 8974 views - 12/17/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The web-based word processing startup, AppJet, has just been acquired
by Google. AppJet says its EtherPad software will be open source in
response to the uproar from angry customers. Users were told that no
new customers would be accepted and the EtherPad...
0 replies - 10850 views - 12/07/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
