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Ed Burnette has been hooked on computers ever since he laid eyes on a TRS-80 in the local Radio Shack. Since graduating from NC State University he has programmed everything from serial device drivers and debuggers to web servers. After a delightful break working on commercial video games, Ed...
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- Android set to launch in Japan, 1.5 deployment "nearly complete"
- The first Android-powered phone will launch in Japan on July 10th. New Japanese customers will have immediate access to free applications in the Android Market, with paid apps following sometime later. That's according to a notice sent from Google's Eric Chu to Android app developers late Wednesday. Bulgaria and Romania...
- Tags: Google Android, Japan, App, Publisher Website, Mobile Operating Systems, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-07-03
- Program for Android in C/C++ with the Native Development Kit (if you dare)
- Not a big fan of Java? Well, get over it, because that's the primary and recommended way to write applications for Android devices. It's portable and... what's that? Android's Dalvik Java VM not fast enough for you? Granted, it's an interpreted engine and as of version 1.5 there's no Just-In-Time...
- Tags: C, Library, Native Development Kit, C/C++, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Eclipse Galileo release train now arriving at gate 3.5
- Besides death and taxes, there is one other certainty in the life of a software developer: slipping schedules. Every year, though, Eclipse continues to defy that expectation by releasing a major new version in late June. Today, the Eclipse Galileo release train arrived exactly on time, for the 6th year...
- Tags: Eclipse, Eclipse Galileo, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Mobile megahertz madness heats up
- The competition is heating up in the market for smartphones and other mobile devices. Literally. You might want to put on some oven mitts. by Ed Burnette
- Tags: Mobile, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- Firefox 3.0.11 fixes 67 bugs including bookmark corruption
- The latest update to Firefox addresses 67 bugs and enhancements, according to Mozilla. 23 bugs were marked as "critical" or higher. (Coincidentally this was the same number addressed by the 3.0.9 update in April.) Nine potential security vulnerabilities were patched including 1 marked as "high" and 4...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, MFSA, Web Browsers, Linux, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Apple introduces the iPhone 3GS, drops price on 3G to $99
- At today's World Wide Developer's Conference keynote, Apple announce a new, faster version of the iPhone: the iPhone 3GS. The S stands for Speed. The new device is 2.1x faster to launch Messages, 2.9x faster to launch a big web page. It includes OpenGL|ES 2.0, and has...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Video, Photograph, 3G, Corporate Communications, Cellular Phones, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- WWDC 2009 live
- It's that time again: the annual Apple World Wide Developer's Conference and its highly anticipated keynote address. Phil Schiller ran the show this year, and while he's no Steve Jobs most observers agree that he did a pretty good job. Highlights include a revamping of the MacBook Pro line, the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple MacBook, Video, Scott Forstall, iPhone OS 3.0, Corporate Communications, Notebooks, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- Google Wave: Catching the Big One
- Google unveiled a new online communications tool Thursday at its annual Google I/O Developer's Conference. Called "Google Wave", the new system sets its sights pretty high: replacing email, instant messaging, wikis, blogs, and static documents. If anybody can do it, it just might be Lars Rasmussen, creator of the wildly...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Wave, E-mail, AJAX, Channel Management, Online Communications, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Marketing, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-05-29
- Google I/O: Mastering the Android Media Framework
- This afternoon at Google I/O 2009 Dave Sparks gave the most technical presentation of the conference so far when he delved into the details of the Android Media Framework. Here are my notes from the talk. Design Goals of the Media Framework include: Simplify...
- Tags: Google Inc., Audio, Volume Control, I/O, Codec, Video, MP3, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- Google I/O: Coding for better battery life
- Jeff Sharkey, recently hired by Google, presented an interesting session this afternoon called "Coding for Life - Battery Life, That Is". In it, he offered several practical tips for Android developers to prolong the life of their users' batteries. All apps need to work together to be...
- Tags: Google Inc., I/O, Battery, Wakelocks, Engineering, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- Google I/O: How do I code thee? Let me count the ways
- Dan Morrill presented a great talk this morning on the 3 different ways to code for Android: Managed Code Dalvik, Ajax, and Native Code. To demonstrate the different ways Dan decided to write the same app , a k-means clustering application, 3 different ways. The first way...
- Tags: Google Inc., I/O, Dalvik, Native Code, Dalvik App, Web apps/Ajax App, Android 1.5, Android Browser, NDK App, AJAX, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- Google gives away 4,000 phones, promotes Android and HTML 5
- In an "Oprah moment" at this morning's Google I/O 2009 opening keynote, Google gave away a new, unlocked HTC Magic to all 4,000 attendees. This phone was previously unavailable in the US. As you might expect, this move drew the biggest applause by far from the audience, but actually very...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, HTML, Phone, Channel Management, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- Google I/O 2009 opens next week
- For two days next week, developers and press will converge on the Moscone Center in San Francisco for the second annual Google I/O Developer's Conference. I will be covering the conference as a member of both groups. This year the conference is broken out into 8 tracks: ...
- Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Conference, Google I/O 2009, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Eclipse Ajax Tools Framework faces termination
- The Ajax Tools Framework ATF project at Eclipse was started with much fanfare in early 2006, but now it looks like the effort will be shut down due to lack of interest. In the formal Termination Review document pdf, Web Tools Platform project leader David Williams writes: There were...
- Tags: Termination, Eclipse, Mailing List, Tool, Termination Review, Java Development Tools, Workforce Management, Open Source, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Apple to developers: Conform or die
- In an email blast to registered iPhone developers this afternoon, Apple warned developers to test their apps with iPhone OS 3.0 beta 5 right away. Beginning immediately, any submission to the App store that doesn't work right under the latest beta will not be approved. (Gosh, I hope the beta...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Apple Inc., Beta, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- Live MOTODEV podcast with Ed Burnette and Rylan Barnes
- Today Randy Ksar from MOTODEV interviewed Rylan Barnes and me in an Android podcast broadcast live by BlogTalkRadio. Rylan is the co-founder of Big In Japan, creators of the super-popular ShopSavvy application for Android. I write part time here at ZDNet and have a new book on...
- Tags: Ed Burnette, Rylan, Podcasts, Internet
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- Flash disk drives are a hit with enterprise customers, says Sun
- Today, Sun announced hundreds of wins across a range of industries for its eco-friendly Sun Storage 7000 series since it was introduced 5 months ago. According to Sun, over 17 petabytes of total space has been purchased, making it "the fastest ramping new product in Sun's storage portfolio ever". Sun...
- Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, Analytics, Sun Microsystems Inc., ZFS, Storage, Hardware, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Firefox gets emergency update to fix the last update
- It looks like last week's automatic update to Firefox came with an unintended hitchhiker: a new bug that opened up a potentially critical security vulnerability. The Mozilla Foundation responded by pushing out a new update that fixes the problem: MFSA 2009-23 Crash in nsTextFrame::ClearTextRun ...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Bug, Topcrashes, Web Browsers, Patches, Security, Internet, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- Google: Upgrade now to Android 1.5 "Cupcake" SDK
- Google has released the final version of Android 1.5, in the form of an SDK for developers and a bootable system image that can be downloaded and installed on Android Dev Phones. All Android developers are advised to upgrade to the new SDK immediately: There are several compelling reasons...
- Tags: Google Inc., SDK, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- 2nd generation Android phones battle it out with iPhone
- By the end of this summer, users will have three Android powered cell phone models to chose from instead of just one. Joining the venerable HTC Dream (aka the T-Mobile G1) will be the HTC Magic May and the Samsung I7500 June. The...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, High Tech Computer Corp., T-Mobile G1, Phone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., HTC Magic, Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Peripherals, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-04-28

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