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Daily Dose - Google Plans Licensing Server to Protect Android Apps

By introducing a central licensing server on the Android Marketplace, Google hopes to provide an effective method for protecting Android apps that can...

0 replies - 1398 views - 07/28/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Rails 3 Arrives at First RC Station

Since the last beta, Ruby on Rails 3.0 has had over 842 commits by 125 developers.  That's the level of polish you can expect when you download the first...

0 replies - 2441 views - 07/27/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Hibernate 3.5.4 and 3.6 Beta 1 Released in Tandem

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...

1 replies - 4103 views - 07/23/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Spring Roo 1.1 Beefs Up Add-on Features

Spring Roo 1.1 M2 and STS 2.3.3 M2 were simultaneously released this week with hundreds of bugfixes and enhancements since milestone one.  Spring Roo 1.1 M2...

0 replies - 4030 views - 07/19/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Can We Stop Talking About the iPhone Antenna Now?

In this week's edition of 'Media Frenzy Over Basically Nothing,' Apple finally called a press conference to end all the crazy talk about possible recalls and...

0 replies - 9504 views - 07/16/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Droid X Shuts Down If You Hack It

The Motorola Droid X phone was released this week, but a lot of reports said that hacking the phone would break the hardware as a secuity measure in the eFuse...

1 replies - 4565 views - 07/16/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Avatar… No, Not The Movie

The test automation vendor Automation Anywhere really liked the movie "Avatar".  They liked it so much that it inspired the creation of their newest...

0 replies - 3523 views - 07/14/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - In the Future, Twelve Year Olds Will Write Your Android App

You heard me.  Along with its announcement of the Google App Inventor for Android, Google also mentioned that the free software had been tested on nursing...

0 replies - 3957 views - 07/13/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Java Skills in Higher Demand than IT Security

According to a Dice.com survey of hiring managers, Java skills were harder to find than IT security skills.  In previous surveys, security specialists were...

0 replies - 4624 views - 07/10/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Java Apps Now Work on Symbian

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...

1 replies - 4100 views - 07/09/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Bringing Google Maps into Emacs

Julien Danjou has created the google-maps-el project, a Google Maps Emacs extension which lets you work with the maps from inside Emacs.  It implements the...

0 replies - 3518 views - 07/01/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - iPhone 4 on Sale, Droid X Unveiled

Some big iPhone and Android news broke today - first, there was the iPhone 4 release, which may have reached record-breaking sales levels.  However, there...

0 replies - 5007 views - 06/25/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Java ME Devs Get a Testing Price Cut

The mobile manufacturers that make up the Unified Test Initiative have decided to lower the price of testing Java ME software on different mobile phones and...

0 replies - 3471 views - 06/23/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - QR Code For Android on GitHub

Its as easy as scanning that weird looking square with your Android phone to have it automatically download and install an Android package (.apk) wirelessly...

0 replies - 3849 views - 06/22/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Android 3.0 May Focus on the UI

Multiple sources at Google are saying that Android's "Gingerbread" (version 3.0) will attempt to refine the user experience to make it as likable as...

0 replies - 6295 views - 06/17/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose