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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 - 1393 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 - 2440 views - 07/27/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Push Notifications: Standards Coming

Real time alerts are a wonderful convenience in today's native apps, but now the W3C wants to bring this functionality to web apps.  This week they formed a...

0 replies - 4626 views - 07/02/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - GlassFish 3.0.1 Supports JRockit, OEL, and More

Although this "100 day" release of GlassFish 3.0.1 is relatively minor, there are several features that make this version noteworthy.  First,...

0 replies - 4226 views - 06/21/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - More Firefox 4 Features Leak Into Preview

The Firefox 3.7 Alpha 5 developer preview was released this week with the 1.9.3 alpha of Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine.  This release includes some...

0 replies - 4998 views - 06/16/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - The Winds of Change Blow for the OSI

Simon Phipps acknowledged some of the "stone throwing" aimed at the Open Source Initiative.  Some of the criticism, he said, was not without...

2 replies - 4025 views - 06/15/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - What is Chromoting?

An official Google message posted by a non-Google party revealed a thin client functionality called Chromoting (unofficially).  Chromoting will be built into...

0 replies - 4748 views - 06/12/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - iPad Owners Exposed to Spam and Hacks

A security breach exposed an exclusive email list of early-adopter iPad 3G subscribers, which included White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Diane Sawyer of...

0 replies - 5384 views - 06/11/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - GNOME 3.0: Which Modules Made the Cut?

Project release manager Vincent Untz posted a synopsis of the new modules that will be included in GNOME 3.0.  The GNOME Activity Journal didn't make the cut...

0 replies - 5096 views - 06/10/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Google Adds Initial Support for WebM

The latest developer channel version of Chrome now has support for WebM, which includes the VP8 video codec.  Believe it or not, Chrome is actually the third...

0 replies - 4624 views - 06/05/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Will Patent Trolls Buy Novell?

Novell revealed last week that it was putting itself up for auction after turning down a $2 billion acquisition offer.  The thing that has the software...

0 replies - 4861 views - 06/01/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Palm Loses WebOS Lead to Google

After losing two leaders of the Android project, Google is filling the void with the lead designer of Palm's WebOS, Matias Duarte.  Duarte, a UI master, will...

0 replies - 5220 views - 05/28/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - HP Trumps IBM in Server Revenue

For years, IBM has been at the top of the server game, but a new study by Gartner says that HP is the new leader in server revenues.  In Q1 of 2010 HP...

0 replies - 4467 views - 05/27/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Fedora 13 Lands

After a one week

0 replies - 4714 views - 05/26/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Silverlight 4 VS Tools and WCF RIA Services

Microsoft released some handy Silverlight 4 tools for Visual Studio 2010 along with WCF RIA Services this week.  The Silverlight tools provide an Intellisense...

0 replies - 4361 views - 05/19/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose