The WebM project has just delivered their first release of libvpx (codename: "Aylesbury"), the SDK for the VP8 open source video codec. The VP8...
0 replies - 22124 views - 10/31/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Today Oracle is releasing an update that will fix 29 critical holes in the Java Development Kit and the Java Runtime Environment. The patch effects not only...
0 replies - 17189 views - 10/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
In a statement sent out to the media late last week, Google announced its intentions to defend open source and protect Android (and the Dalvik JVM) against the...
1 replies - 22789 views - 08/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
A blogger has leaked what is believed to be an internal Oracle memo about the future of OpenSolaris and Solaris 11. The key quote from the memo states:...
1 replies - 20559 views - 08/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
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 - 19286 views - 07/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
You might remember that Apple filed an infringement suit against handset-maker HTC earlier this year based on several patents. Some saw this as an indirect...
0 replies - 13047 views - 06/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
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 - 11831 views - 06/14/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
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 - 15330 views - 06/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
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 - 13450 views - 05/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
This week, Clang++, the C++ front-end compiler for the LLVM, had its first successful Boost regression test run. Boost is a collection of open source,...
1 replies - 13463 views - 05/21/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The Google App Engine 1.3.4 prerelease went live this weekend with authentication capabilities for apps. Applications will be able to authenticate with Open...
0 replies - 14746 views - 05/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
David Flanagan doesn't seem to think so. The programming consultant and writer for O'Reilly Media shared some frustrating observations about the lack of...
0 replies - 20703 views - 05/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Stats from androlib.com show that the Android Marketplace has surpassed 50k Apps, and app production has been accelerating. In December there were around...
0 replies - 15814 views - 04/25/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
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 - 15349 views - 04/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
"Within a few weeks," says one report, Adobe will drop the lawsuit-bomb on Apple for locking out their Flash-to-iPhone compiler in the revised...
6 replies - 15211 views - 04/14/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
