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Mitch Pronschinske05/09/10
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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 of WebGL. O3D was formerly developed as a plugin and an alternative to OpenGL and WebGL because...

Mitch Pronschinske05/07/10
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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 month that GitHub has added Subversion write support. Developers can now use tools like SmartSVN...

Mitch Pronschinske05/06/10
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Daily Dose - World Wide Web Lives Up to its Name: Non-Latin Addresses Go Live

ICANN has now begun allowing non-latin characters to be used in top-level internet domains by inserting the first IDN country-code domains into the DNS root zone. Arab countries including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE were the first countries to get...

Mitch Pronschinske05/05/10
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Daily Dose - Adobe CTO Likens Apple to a 19th Century Railroad Company

In the 1800's, different railroad companies around the world used different gauges for the rails, making trans-national travel very difficult. Because of companies like Apple, the same thing is happening in the mobile development space, according to Adobe...

Mitch Pronschinske05/04/10
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Daily Dose - Microsoft's CLI for Browsers?

Mono Project lead Miguel de Icaza recently suggested that web developers could write much better applications if the Common Language Infrastructure (CLR), upon which the .NET framework sits, were integrated into today's browsers. de Icaza says it would give...

Mitch Pronschinske05/03/10
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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 the MIX 10 conference, and in an effort to maintain their fast tempo of Silverlight releases,...

Mitch Pronschinske05/02/10
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Daily Dose - Adobe Wants Employees to Abandon the iPhone Too

Adobe is encouraging employees to eat their own mobile dogfood by giving them all free Android phones (which will soon be running Flash 10.1) at the Google I/O conference. This is an effort to promote company unity behind the iPhone's competitors after...

Mitch Pronschinske04/30/10
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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 into the Linux tree that Google created in its Android Linux kernel development. Integrating some...

Mitch Pronschinske04/29/10
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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 and five years of server support. Codenamed 'Lucid Lynx', the 10.04 release of Ubuntu LTS features a...

Mitch Pronschinske04/28/10
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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 announced its willingness to buy Palm and its struggling smartphones - the price tag: $1.2 billion, which...

Mitch Pronschinske04/27/10
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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 patented version of MapReduce ("System and method for efficient large-scale data pr

Mitch Pronschinske04/26/10
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Daily Dose - A Farewell to Floppy Disks

Sony announced that they will stop selling floppy discs this year, making them the final manufacturer to halt their production. You may not believe it, but even up until 2008, the company could still sell 8.5 million floppy disks just in Japan. Now demand...

Mitch Pronschinske04/25/10
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Daily Dose - Android Market Reaches 50k Apps; Development Accelerates

Stats from androlib.com show that the Android Marketplace has surpassed 50k Apps, and app production has been accelerating. In December there were around 4,000 new Android apps. Each of the last two months have seen over 8,000 new apps accepted into the...

Mitch Pronschinske04/23/10
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Daily Dose - Palm Software Lead's Last Day

Yesterday was the last day for Michael Abbot, the head of Palm's software and services team. The news comes as no surprise since Palm has been struggling to stay afloat or possibly get bought out now that their stock is declining. Palm did however, keep...

Mitch Pronschinske04/22/10
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Daily Dose - App Engine 1.3.3 Released

A new Google App Engine SDK for Java and Python was released this week. The 1.3.3 version includes changes and issue fixes for the data store, admin console, and deployment. The Python SDK has gained a shiny new experimental feature that lets you use...