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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 - 12580 views - 06/04/10 by Mitch Pronschinske 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 - 13421 views - 05/31/10 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 - 15090 views - 05/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske 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 - 13444 views - 05/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Fedora 13 Lands

After a one week delay in the release schedule, Fedora 13 is finally here.  Codenamed "Goddard," this open source Linux distro has several features...

0 replies - 12908 views - 05/25/10 by Mitch Pronschinske 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 - 15839 views - 05/18/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Schwartz Calls Ellison "Flawless" and "Lovely"

After Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's scathing comments criticizing the (mis)management of Sun Microsystems, former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz had only one thing to...

1 replies - 14156 views - 05/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Major Leaders Leave Android

This week Cedric Beust, a Senior Android Software Engineer, and Erick Tseng, the Android Senior Product Manager, left Google to join LinkedIn and Facebook...

6 replies - 18699 views - 05/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Developers Fix Drupal Module and Save Whitehouse.gov

The Drupal Context module is a release candidate, but it is still in use on many sites including the White House website.  Earlier this week, a cross-site...

0 replies - 15971 views - 05/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Malware Infects Numerous WordPress Pages

A large number of WordPress sites have been compromised by cyberattacks on various web hosts.  The scripts that have infected the hacked WordPress pages with...

0 replies - 15226 views - 05/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - O3D Moves From Plugin to JS Library

The Chromium team didn't make its decision lightly, but they decided to start developing O3D, a 3D graphics API for the browser, as a JavaScript library on top...

0 replies - 14543 views - 05/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Not a Joke: GitHub Getting Broad Subversion Support

You probably thought it was an April Fools joke when GitHub announced Subversion read-only support on April 1st.  However, the people at GitHub announced this...

0 replies - 17807 views - 05/07/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Good-gle Gives Back to Linux

The official Linux tree will be getting a nice present from Google very soon.  The company recently assigned two developers to begin integrating features back...

0 replies - 15785 views - 04/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Lucid Lynx Officially on the Prowl

Two years after the last Ubuntu Long Term Service release, Canonical has delivered the next version of Ubuntu that comes with three years of desktop support...

0 replies - 16187 views - 04/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - HP to Buy Palm

Palm has been struggling to find a company willing to buy them out ever since their quarterly sales and stock prices plummeted.  Now Hewlett-Packard has...

0 replies - 15779 views - 04/28/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose