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Mitch Pronschinske03/26/10
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Daily Dose - Adobe Teases with CS5 Release Date

Adobe has launched a teaser site announcing the release date of Creative Suite 5. The site contains several videos introducing a handful of new features, but the pricing, specs, and other features are being kept under wraps until the launch date...

Mitch Pronschinske03/25/10
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Daily Dose - De Icaza Interview About .Net Taken Down

In an article titled "Does Windows cost Microsoft opportunities" by the SD Times, Novell VP and Mono Project lead Miguel de Icaza had some strong opinions about Microsoft's handling of the .NET platform. For reasons unknown, the article has been...

Mitch Pronschinske03/24/10
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Daily Dose - AWS Releases Java SDK for EC2, S3, and More

Amazon announced an update for its Eclipse toolkit at EclipseCon along with a new Java SDK. The development kit is a single JAR that helps developers manage integrations to Amazon's many services. Amazon's code handles all the low-level authentication,...

Mitch Pronschinske03/23/10
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Daily Dose - Opera Submits its Mini Browser to Apple, Now We Wait

Opera has finally announced its submission of the latest Opera Mini browser to the App store for use on the iPhone. The mini browser is not a full featured browser but it does have a speed advantage, especially in low bandwidth situations. It runs...

Mitch Pronschinske03/22/10
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Daily Dose - EU Ballot Causing a Drop in IE Usage

Since the browser ballot, which was mandated by European regulators, was implemented for Windows users, the market share for Internet Explorer has been falling. IE usage has dropped 2.5% in France, 1.3% in Italy, and 1% in the UK. In contrast, Opera, the...

Mitch Pronschinske03/21/10
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Daily Dose - Ubuntu "Lucid Lynx" Beta 1 on the Prowl

Ubuntu LTS 10.04 (aka Lucid Lynx) has just reached beta 1. The beta comes with a new look for the operating system and is based on the 2.6.32.9 Linux kernel. The depreciated HAL package has been removed for faster booting and there is built-in social...

Mitch Pronschinske03/19/10
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Daily Dose - Hibernate Migrates to JBoss Community

JBoss has just finished migrating Hibernate.org to the JBoss Community portal, where many other JBoss projects are housed. The project pages have been transferred to the Magnolia instance and the community wiki is now on the Clearspace instance. Aside...

Mitch Pronschinske03/18/10
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Daily Dose - HTC Prepares to Defend Itself Against Apple

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...

Mitch Pronschinske03/17/10
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Daily Dose - Gosling Has Faith in Oracle, Not the JCP

In his first public address since Oracle's acquisition of Sun, Java creator James Gosling assured developers that Java was in good hands with Oracle. Gosling, however, did not have nice things to say about the Java Community Process. "It's just...

Mitch Pronschinske03/16/10
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Daily Dose - IBM Stops Disclosing Number of U.S. Employees

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...

Mitch Pronschinske03/15/10
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Daily Dose - XML Co-Inventor Joins Android Team; Scorns Apple

Tech blogger and XML co-inventor, Tim Bray, recently posted about his new job with Google's Android development team. In his blog, which is now a "No-Evil Zone", Bray talked about his agreement with the Google philosophy as opposed to the Apple's...

Mitch Pronschinske03/15/10
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VMware Hires Key NoSQL Developer

The VMware executive blog recently announced the hiring of Salvatore Sanfilippo, the key developer for Redis, a NoSQL database (Key Value/Tuple Store). VMware believes Redis can help evolve their cloud and virtualization technologies. Sanfilippo was...

Mitch Pronschinske03/15/10
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Daily Dose - Apple Doesn't Win Case Against Users of "i"

An Australian trademarks office blocked Apple's actions to stop a small company from trademarking "DOPi" as a name for its laptop bags and cases for Apple devices. You may notice that DOPi is iPod spelled backwards, so that's why Apple thought the...

Mitch Pronschinske03/13/10
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Daily Dose - ASP.NET MVC 2 Has Arrived

Microsoft just released the second major version of ASP.NET MVC. An alternative to HTML abstraction development in ASP.NET WebForms, ASP.NET MVC 2 is used in cases where control over the HTML and precise layer separation are more important than...

Mitch Pronschinske03/12/10
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Daily Dose - Simon Phipps Elected to OSI Board of Directors

Just a few days after leaving Oracle, Simon Phipps, who served as the Chief Open Source Officer at Sun for nearly ten years, has been elected to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) board of directors. Phipps intends to help the organization become more active...