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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...

0 replies - 16215 views - 04/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

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...

0 replies - 15821 views - 04/28/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

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...

1 replies - 13792 views - 04/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

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...

0 replies - 15985 views - 04/18/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Intel's Mind Reader

At the Tech Heaven event this week, Intel and Carnegie Mellon University unveiled rudimentary mind-reading software that uses an MRI to scan your brainwaves in...

0 replies - 12501 views - 04/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Java EE Pros Surveyed About the Technologies They're Using

A survey of 1,101 IT pros, with a focus on Java enterprise developers, was released this week by Replay Solutions, a company that offers a replay debugging...

2 replies - 6956 views - 04/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

IBM Breaks Patent Pledge; Breaches the OSS Community's Trust (Updated)

See Update BelowFor decades, IBM has been the patent king and yet, in most cases it has been a friend to open source.  The founding of the Open Innoavation...

1 replies - 7297 views - 04/06/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Daily Dose - We Live in a World Where There Are iPads

Apple's "next big thing" was released in stores today, but the apps have been available since yesterday.  These pre-release apps included Netflix...

0 replies - 13903 views - 04/02/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Mozilla Research Says Firefox Just Under 40% Market Share in Europe

The Mozilla Metrics blog announced the publishing of the foundation's first ever quarterly analyst report on browser share and other internet insights.  The...

0 replies - 14593 views - 04/01/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - OSS Victory in Italy, But Trouble Brewing in EU

A law passed by an Italian regional council that made preferences for choosing free software in government systems was recently upheld in a national court. ...

0 replies - 15570 views - 03/31/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Novell Keeps Unix Copyrights; Linux is Safe

A US federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Novell owns the Unix copyrights, and not SCO.  In the 7-year court battle, SCO claimed that copyrights transferred...

0 replies - 16907 views - 03/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Adobe Teases with CS5 Release Date

Adobe has launched a teaser site announcing the release date of Creative Suite 5.  The site contains several videos introducing a handful of new features, but...

0 replies - 18963 views - 03/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - De Icaza Interview About .Net Taken Down

In an article titled "Does Windows cost Microsoft opportunities" by the SD Times, Novell VP and Mono Project lead Miguel de Icaza had some strong...

0 replies - 19246 views - 03/25/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Daily Dose - Ubuntu "Lucid Lynx" Beta 1 on the Prowl

Ubuntu LTS 10.04 (aka Lucid Lynx) has just reached beta 1.  The beta comes with a new look for the operating system and is based on the 2.6.32.9 Linux...

0 replies - 18194 views - 03/21/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

How do I use all my cores?

News Flash: Multi-core programming is "hard". EVERYBODY PANIC.ZOMFG: We either need new tools, new languages or both! Right Now!Here's one...

3 replies - 11836 views - 03/15/10 by Steven Lott in News