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Daily Dose - VirtualBox Update from Oracle

The Oracle VM VirtualBox has reached version 3.2.12.  The virtualization app for x86 hardware just received about 20 bugfixes fixing stability issues, 64-bit...

0 replies - 19139 views - 12/03/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Short review of "Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework"

0 replies - 6238 views - 11/26/10 by Den Delimarsky in Book Reviews

Daily Dose - London Stock Exchange Switches to Linux - Breaks Record Trading Speed

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has recently migrated from a .NET system over to Linux for their stock trading system.  Recent tests have broken the trading...

0 replies - 19813 views - 10/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Adobe Releases HTML5 Video Player w/Flash Rollover

Adobe wasn't kidding when they said they were riding the HTML5 bandwagon as hard as anybody right now.  Rather than compete with the new web standard, Adobe...

0 replies - 26093 views - 10/24/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Report Says Microsoft/Adobe Merger Story is Bunk

While it certainly didn't hurt Adobe's stock prices, which rose by 11.5% this week, the rumors that Microsoft is in talks to buy Adobe are...

0 replies - 17724 views - 10/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Another Android OEM Gets Sued

After Apple Sued HTC for Android phone-related IP infringement a few months ago, and then after Oracle sued Google for Dalvik's particular usage of Java, a...

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

Daily Dose - Researchers Slam Android Over Apps that Leak GPS data

A study from researchers at Duke University, Penn State University, and Intel Labs has discovered that 15 out of 30 popular Android applications selected at...

1 replies - 18009 views - 10/01/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - SproutCore 1.4 Grows Touch Support

A new release arrived for the SproutCore framework that builds nativeized web apps.  The new release, 1.4, has more touch events for mobile devices and better...

0 replies - 17908 views - 09/20/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Lightspark: Free, Open Flash

A free and open source Flash player has emerged this week in beta.  The Lightspark beta is close to having full ActionScript 3 support and it even includes...

0 replies - 14797 views - 05/20/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - What Do You Want To See in Silverlight 5?

There's no rest for Microsoft's Silverlight team.  They are already preparing to schedule new features to go into Silverlight 5.  Version 4 was announced at...

0 replies - 15477 views - 05/03/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Hadoop is Safe From Google's MapReduce Patent

Google has just granted a patent license to the Apache Hadoop distributed computing framework, which uses a MapReduce process similar to Google's recently...

2 replies - 19210 views - 04/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - The Future of Car and Smartphone Integration

Automaker Ford has announced that it will make the first vehicle that enables Blackberry and Android phones to use certain web apps through voice commands. ...

1 replies - 13707 views - 04/20/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Top Sources of Waste in ALM

In this interview, Sam Guckenheimer reveals what he believes to be the top sources of waste in ALM.  He also discusses the things to consider when...

0 replies - 1606 views - 04/19/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

Daily Dose - Microsoft Turns on Silverlight 4 April 13

The final launch date for Silverlight 4 has been set for April 13.  This doesn't mean for sure that Silverlight 4 will be available on that date because of...

1 replies - 13245 views - 04/07/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - iPhone OS 4.0 To Be Revealed Thursday

Hot on the heels of the iPad release, Apple has just sent invites "for a sneak peek of the next generation of iPhone OS software."  The press event...

0 replies - 15287 views - 04/05/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose