A new version of Apache Cassandra is available today. New features include large row support (up to two billion columns per row), secondary indexes, and...
0 replies - 18020 views - 01/11/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
In conjunction with this week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Google has published the first official details on Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" (yes, 3.0...
0 replies - 22190 views - 01/07/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Apache OODT (Object-Oriented Data Technology) was originally developed in 1998 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This week, the project was accepted as a...
0 replies - 22097 views - 01/06/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Less than a year after Microsoft was forced to provide that "browser ballot" on setup (for Europe only), their browser (Internet Explorer) has lost...
0 replies - 21678 views - 01/05/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
2010 was a year of exodus for many Sun employees who disliked the new corporate philosophy under Oracle. The blogger Pelegri has compiled a list of companies...
0 replies - 21901 views - 01/04/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Today, the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace recorded more than 5k applications in the store, which is just above the number in Palm's WebOS app store. While the...
0 replies - 24957 views - 12/31/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Affected customers have just sued Apple and other iOS app makers including Pandora and Dictionary.com for allegedly letting advertisers create iOS user...
0 replies - 22258 views - 12/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
A tweet from the Google Nexus feed confirms that the older "Nexus" model will also get the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update over the air in a few...
0 replies - 25252 views - 12/23/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
It looks like Google may hold on to the Android 3.0 title for another more spectacular future release. As it stands, a source reports that the next version...
0 replies - 26840 views - 12/20/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Eclipse 3.7 "Indigo" and Eclipse 4.1, which is still aimed at early adopters, received new features in milestone 4 this week. For both Eclipse...
0 replies - 26357 views - 12/14/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The Ruby-based PaaS Heroku is going to be acquired by cloud pioneer Salesforce for $212 million in cash. Compare that to the $13 million they raised in...
1 replies - 22269 views - 12/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
AWS announced that they are now providing a highly available Domain Name System service called "Route 53." The new service is aimed at developers...
0 replies - 15371 views - 12/07/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
I tend to read the release notes on Tools. That was one thing the
eclipse team was good about for a while. My #1 gripe about Xcode,
somehow, has...
2 replies - 4332 views - 11/22/10 by Rob Williams in News
SpringSource just announced two new projects to aid Spring users in mobile application development. The first is Spring Mobile, which provides extensions to...
0 replies - 24476 views - 11/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Over the last two days the back-and-forth over TCKs continued between Apache and Oracle. Stephen Colebourne, a certified Java Champion, knows this issue very...
0 replies - 22554 views - 11/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
