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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 - 13826 views - 07/15/10 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 - 12756 views - 07/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske 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 - 13940 views - 07/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske 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 - 11557 views - 06/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

The 3 Things That Motivate Us

How do I motivate my developers? - is a question you hear all the time from managers who haven't been paying attention to the patterns found in many software...

6 replies - 15369 views - 06/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

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 - 11859 views - 06/14/10 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 - 11804 views - 06/06/10 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 - 16001 views - 05/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - iPhone 4G Leaked

The fourth generation iPhone was found in a Redwood City bar about a week ago and is now in the hands of Gizmodo, who reported on the story.  All signs...

0 replies - 17863 views - 04/19/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - MonoTouch 3.0; Seems Unfazed by Apple's New Terms

Novell VP and Mono project lead Miguel de Icasa isn't worried that MonoTouch might fall under Apple's new restrictions that banned Adobe's Flash-to-iPhone...

0 replies - 15386 views - 04/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Case Study: How OSS Helped One Startup Beat Larger Companies

Many companies are still not comfortable with using a software solution unless they are paying for it.  However, tech companies that use mainly Open Source...

0 replies - 14730 views - 04/01/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Daily Dose - OSS Victory in Italy, But Trouble Brewing in EU

A law passed by an Italian regional council that made preferences for choosing free software in government systems was recently upheld in a national court. ...

0 replies - 15570 views - 03/31/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - HTC Prepares to Defend Itself Against Apple

Taiwanese handset maker, HTC, released a statement listing all the "firsts" that they achieved in mobile device manufacturing as a response to...

0 replies - 16689 views - 03/18/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Gosling Has Faith in Oracle, Not the JCP

In his first public address since Oracle's acquisition of Sun, Java creator James Gosling assured developers that Java was in good hands with Oracle. ...

0 replies - 17081 views - 03/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - XML Co-Inventor Joins Android Team; Scorns Apple

Tech blogger and XML co-inventor, Tim Bray, recently posted about his new job with Google's Android development team. In his blog, which is now a "No-Evil...

0 replies - 21315 views - 03/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose