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- Sun needs an answer to iPhone ASAP, lest Java wither on the vine
- Sun needs an answer to iPhone ASAP, lest Java wither on the vineHuh?I assume there is some sort of point to this? I missed it. I think I am dumber now for having read this...The answer is out thereit's called mobile Linux!If you want Java, then go Linux. Otherwise...
- Tags: Programming languages, AJAX, Nothing, Java, Apple iPhone, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-11
- Morphine relief without addiction?
- Morphine has been used as a painkiller for decades, if not centuries. Unfortunately for patients, morphine is also an addictive substance. Now, Brigham Young University BYU chemists are using a vine plant that grows in Australia to develop a new painkilling molecule, but with fewer side effects. The Deseret Morning...
- Tags: Brigham Young University, molecule, vine
- Blog posts 2006-08-20
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- What's future proofing worth? Analyzing the Verizon FiOS bet
- There's a lot of discussion today about whether Verizon's $23 billion investment in its FiOS network was worth it, but the argument really comes down to this: How much is future-proofing your business worth? The New York Times did an in-depth analysis about Verizon's FiOS rollout and...
- Tags: Comcast Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Cable, Network Technology, Internet, TVs, Financial Accounting, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Home Entertainment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- JavaFX SDK preview launches: Can Sun play the RIA game?
- Sun Microsystems on Thursday will launch the JavaFX preview release as it aims to round up its bevy of Java developers to be a player in rich Internet applications. The preview release gives designers, web scripters and developers a peek at Sun's tools to make RIAs across...
- Tags: Game, Adobe Systems Inc., Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., Rich Internet Application, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- JavaFX Preview SDK to be released this week
- Sun will release a preview version of the JavaFX Software Development Kit later this week, fulfilling a pledge made at JavaOne this year. Joshua Marinacci writes: I'm excited by what we've put together but also exhausted. We've done an incredible amount of work during the last year. Now...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., SDK, Adobe Illustrator, Tool, Joshua Marinacci, Productivity, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Tech, telecom join up to beat back trolls
- Seeing as how patent reform has died on the vine, several tech and telecom companies are taking matters into their own hands, the Wall Street Journal reports. Scared by the NTP v Research in Motion case, in which the BlackBerry maker came perilously close to folding...
- Tags: Patent, Troll, NTP, Telephony, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Americans growing their own: veggies this time
- Americans growing their own: veggies this timeGood idea.When I was a kid we always had a vegetable garden in the suburbs. Tomatoes, cucumbers carrorts and lettuce. That way you don't have to worry about what type of pesticides companies use. Not only that, they taste so much better, especially the...
- Tags: lawn, herb
- Discussion threads 2008-06-12
- Public vs. Private? Outspoken Congressman mulls government's investment role in green tech
- Public vs. Private? Outspoken Congressman mulls government's investment role in green techKucinch?No offense to anyone's political views, but Kucinch isn't exactly the person to carry the water for any cause. Kucinch is great to excite a certain political faction, but rarely gets anything accomplished that he sets out to...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Kucinch, green technology, government, investment role
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- Will iTunes new DVD distribution schedule be enough to boost Apple TV?
- Will iTunes new DVD distribution schedule be enough to boost Apple TV?Love my AppleTV!The movie selection is improving rapidly, which should help a lot. I think ATV is sort of a "sleeper" that could blossom into something significant for Apple.One of my favorite uses for ATV is looking at photos...
- Tags: Media Center PCs, TVs, Digital music, Digital media, TV & Home Theater, movie selection, TV, DVD, Apple Inc., ATV, Apple iTunes, Apple TV
- Discussion threads 2008-05-01
- Microsoft-Yahoo-Google: The vicious antitrust circle
- Microsoft-Yahoo-Google: The vicious antitrust circleMicrosoft-Yahoo-Google: The vicious antitrust circleThere is no denying that Microsoft is in the right here. Yahoo screwed itself by making a deal with the devil. I hope the authorities hit Google very hard because of this.RE: Microsoft-Yahoo-Google: The vicious antitrust circlethis is relay bad,...
- Tags: Corporate law, SECURITY, Microsoft-Yahoo-Google, vicious antitrust, antitrust, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-09
- 1.6GHz processor and 2GB of RAM not enough for Mac OS X?!?!
- 1.6GHz processor and 2GB of RAM not enough for Mac OS X?!?!You are being mean[i]If the MacBook Air really isn’t up to web browsing and email, then maybe this system should ship with a Vista Capable or should that be Vista Incapable sticker on it.[/i]Mean, but absolutely hilarious!!!! :)Maybe [url=http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=399]...
- Tags: Memory, Notebooks, Desktops, Mac OS X?!?, RAM, MBA, processor, Apple Mac OS, Jason, notebook, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
- It's good news, bad news: Microsoft gets its Internet act together
- From a variety of sources, I'm hearing the same thing that Robert Scoble is, and that is that Microsoft under Ray Ozzie is making major strides in giving Web developers what they want, opening the client-side stuff well with IE 8, putting core productivity apps as services online, and assembling...
- Tags: Web, Internet, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., News, Channel Management, Marketing, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- Whither anti-virus software?
- In the security industry it's not hard to run into someone predicting the demise of the anti-virus industry. But the end game will take forever to play out. The common argument: Anti-virus software can never keep up, is outdated and outgunned against rapidly evolving threats. Websense CEO...
- Tags: Software, Antivirus, Viruses And Worms, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Endlessly extending copyright
- The European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, Charlie McCreevy, recently declared that copyright for performers be extended from 50 to 95 years. This was proposed, according McCreevy, to remedy a fundamental unfairness, wherein the composer the author of a song has rights that extend 70 years after his death, whereas...
- Tags: Incentive, Financial, Property, Pension, Financial Incentive, Intellectual Property, Benefits, Sales Force Management, Research & Development, Business Operations, Human Resources, Sales, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Goodbye, Geronimo? IBM says app server is alive and well
- When IBM acquired Gluecode, many industry watchers saw it as the ultimate statement that open source was a force to be reckoned with in the SOA and middleware space. And, it was a smart move by IBM to embrace this new disruptive force that promised to bring SOA to...
- Tags: Apache Geronimo, Application Server, Server, IBM Corp., Community Edition, Application Servers, Middleware, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Web Services, Sales, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-01-13
- Sun to swap out ME for SE on mobile devices -- high risk alert!
- Looks like Sun will slowly dump, ie wither on the vine, Java mobile and try to drive Java SE down into the class of mobile converged devices like an iPhone. As I said earlier, iPhone has ushered in the need to do something about mobile Java fast -- but this...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Sun Microsystems Inc., Mobile Device, Programming Languages, Advertising & Promotion, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Marketing, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-10-20
- News to know: BEA bid, Green Friday, Windows Live events
- Notable headlines: Dana Gardner: Oracle makes its move to acquire BEA George Ou: Green IT will get zero traction until IT pays the electric bill Harry Fuller: Greening your datacenter, what's it worth? New climate change report in November will...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, BEA Systems Inc., Dana Gardner, Green IT, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-12
- Sun needs an answer to iPhone ASAP, lest Java wither on the vine
- Why isn't Sun giving away iPhones at customer schmoozes? They need their own Java complement ASAP, that's why. A lot of times when you go to a Sun Microsystems schmooze event, they larder the request for your attendance with the chance to win an iPod-this or an...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Sun Microsystems Inc., Problem, Apple Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Programming Languages, Java, Marketing, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
- Back to the Barricades and Firing Squads: Revolution 2.0 Is Coming
- Back to the Barricades and Firing Squads: Revolution 2.0 Is ComingNothing here. Moving on.I have NO idea what you are writing about.Anybody?Went right over my head.Well, thanks anyhow. ;)RE: Back to the Barricades and Firing Squads: Revolution 2.0 Is ComingI wouldn't carry the comparison between the old PC revolution...
- Tags: Revolution 2.0, Firing Squad, firing, barricade
- Discussion threads 2007-09-07
- Will XenSource-Citrix Deal Hurt Xen, Open Source?
- Citrix's $500 million buyout of XenSource is a brilliant strategic move that will enable the Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. software company --and its powerful close ally, Microsoft -- to steal market share from virtualization software kingpin VMware. The deal, announced this week presumably to coincide with VMware's star-studded IPO, essentially unifies...
- Tags: Software, Open Source, Software Company, Citrix Systems Inc., Xen, XenSource Inc., Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
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