Friday - May 9, 2008
Gas prices are setting record highs, homeowners are facing foreclosure, the dollar's slipping further down a black hole, and the credit industry is collapsing. These are frustrating times -- and perhaps that's partly why "Grand Theft Auto IV" just set some new records for video game sales. The controversial title took in a half billion dollars in its opening week, with more than half of that haul coming on opening day. You've got to take out your economic frustrations somehow, and what better way than to plunk down 60 bucks for the chance to rampage through a simulated New York City.
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Friday - May 9, 2008
Taking on the likes of Adobe and Microsoft, Sun Microsystems on Tuesday unveiled its new JavaFX family of products for building rich Internet applications. Based on Sun's longstanding Java platform, JavaFX includes a runtime and a tools suite that Web scripters, designers and developers can use to quickly build and deliver rich interactive applications for desktop, mobile devices, TV and other platforms.
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Monday - May 5, 2008
Sun Microsystems and the OpenSolaris community it created a few years ago have officially released the Unix-based OpenSolaris operating system into the wild. The two organizations shared the news at the CommunityOne Developer Conference Monday in San Francisco. OpenSolaris is based on Sun's Solaris kernel, but it has since been transformed into a more open and developer-friendly OS.
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Tuesday - April 29, 2008
The ideas blend together so well. Open source has been around for a long time and is built on the concept of developers working together and sharing software. Social networking has broken into the headlines as a new generation uses MySpace and Facebook as a whole new means of sharing their life experiences.
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Wednesday - April 16, 2008
On-demand applications and cloud computing often mean different things to different people. For developers, Software as a Service is quickly evolving not only as a means to deliver applications -- but as the means to develop them, too. Taking the notion of "development as a service" to its full potential is the logic behind Platform as a Service.
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Tuesday - April 15, 2008
Memory bugs, essentially a mistake in the management of heap memory, are caused by a number of factors and can occur in any program that is being written, enhanced or maintained. The fact that memory bugs can be introduced at any time is part of what makes memory debugging a challenging task.
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Monday - April 14, 2008
Adobe may still enjoy a resounding lead with its Flash rich-media runtime and player, but Microsoft appears to be gradually gaining ground with its Silverlight application platform. At the National Association of Broadcasters Show 2008 in Las Vegas, Microsoft on Monday announced a raft of new companies that have adopted Silverlight.
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Thursday - April 10, 2008
IBM has introduced a mashup portfolio designed to help line of business users create applications for specific situations. The driver behind development of the portfolio is the recognition that there is a huge amount of value in unstructured data and content that doesn't always fall neatly under the IT enterprise umbrella.
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Friday - March 28, 2008
Mozilla's Firefox has a loyal following of people who say it's a lot better than the leading browser, Microsoft's Internet Explorer. But Mozilla CEO John Lilly looks like he also has a close eye on Apple's Safari browser, which commands a mere fraction of Firefox's market share even though it's available on both Windows and Mac.
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Wednesday - March 26, 2008
Microsoft has opened up its Contacts application programming interface for the Windows Live platform, which will allow third-party developers to build applications that transfer and share contact information across various social networks. The move is part of a larger strategy to adopt an open API strategy.
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Friday - March 21, 2008
Since the RIAA and record companies began their campaign of suing college students, grandmothers, children, single moms and anyone else who might have shared a song over peer-to-peer networks, most people on the receiving end of the lawsuits have meekly agreed to pay settlements amounting to far less than the RIAA warned they could be sued for. A handful have fought back, though.
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