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Daily Dose - Early Victory for SFC in GPL Violation Cases

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...

0 replies - 14506 views - 08/04/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Gaelyk 0.4.3 Improves Logging Infrastructure

The lightweight Groovy toolkit for Google App Engine, Gaelyk, has reached 0.4.3.  This release includes a new standard hierarchy approach in the logging...

0 replies - 14382 views - 08/02/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Arquillian 1.0 Alpha 3 has Landed

The next alpha release of Arquillian changes the version scheme for containers, making it easier to configure for containers.  Alpha 3 also works with JBoss...

0 replies - 14222 views - 08/01/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

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 - 13039 views - 07/28/10 by Mitch Pronschinske 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 - 13928 views - 07/18/10 by Mitch Pronschinske 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 - 19431 views - 07/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske 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 - 12866 views - 07/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske 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 - 17115 views - 07/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - HTML5 Coming to Gmail

Google announced that it would be rendering many upcoming features for Gmail in HTML5.  Dragging and dropping files from the desktop into the browser will be...

0 replies - 14044 views - 06/28/10 by Mitch Pronschinske 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 - 14157 views - 06/24/10 by Mitch Pronschinske 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 - 14298 views - 06/21/10 by Mitch Pronschinske 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 - 16839 views - 06/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Twitter Tinkers With Redis

Twitter began using NoSQL last year as it rolled its systems onto the widely popular Cassandra system (used by large web properties such as Digg and...

0 replies - 14079 views - 06/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - OSI Approves WebM as Open Source

Google switched the custom license for their WebM package to the OSI-approved BSD license this weekend.  The Open Source Initiative had some issues with the...

0 replies - 11911 views - 06/06/10 by Mitch Pronschinske 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 - 15253 views - 05/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose