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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...

Mitch Pronschinske04/21/10
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Daily Dose - Ken Thompson Still Has To Take Google's Language Test

An extremely ironic quote from the co-inventor of Unix and the C language, Ken Thompson, was found in the book Coders at Work. The quote was posted by Gawker today and reveals that even Ken Thompson was required to take a mandatory test on the language he...

Mitch Pronschinske04/20/10
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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. The 2011 model of the Ford Fiesta, which will be released this summer, will be the first vehicle to...

Mitch Pronschinske04/19/10
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Daily Dose - iPhone 4G Leaked

The fourth generation iPhone was found in a Redwood City bar about a week ago and is now in the hands of Gizmodo, who reported on the story. All signs indicate that this is the real deal. All the hardware is next-generation and clearly labeled...

Mitch Pronschinske04/18/10
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Daily Dose - Apple, Google, Intel, IBM Hiring Practices Under Investigation

The US Department of Justice is investigating several major software companies according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The investigations are aimed at uncovering the details surrounding possible deals between companies not to steal each others'...

Mitch Pronschinske04/16/10
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Daily Dose - MonoTouch 3.0; Seems Unfazed by Apple's New Terms

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 compiler. He just announced the release of MonoTouch 3.0, which adds support for iPhoneOS 4.0's new...