Monthly Archives: June 2011

Kitchen Window: July Fourth Barbecue From America’s Melting Pot : NPR “And sometimes the embrace is more like a bear hug. Giddau’s lambburgers are still a favorite on my family’s grill, but these days, so is Greek-style chicken marinated in … Continue reading →

After OpenOffice and Hudson, will Oracle stick with open source? | Open Source Software – InfoWorld “With Hudson and OpenOffice, Oracle concluded there was no meaningful revenue at risk in donating the projects but that both efforts still had indirect … Continue reading →

Firefox 5 released, arrives only three months after Firefox 4 “Mozilla has launched Firefox 5, a new version of the popular open source Web browser. This is the first update that Mozilla has issued since adopting a new release management … Continue reading →

White iPhone debacle shows why Apple is winning | TechRepublic “The lesson here is not that companies should always wait until their products are absolutely perfect before they release them. If that were the case, very few products would ever … Continue reading →

Linux News: Desktop: Keeping the Desktop Dream Alive: Q&A With Linux Foundation’s Jim Zemlin, Part 1 “In 2007, Linux was heralded as the desktop of the future. However, the history of Linux on the desktop has been a story of … Continue reading →

When WiFi doesn’t work: a guide to home networking alternatives “If you live an old home or building, you already know the limits of WiFi. Despite the improved range of 802.11n coupled with improved throughput at greater distances‚ WiFi doesn’t … Continue reading →

Bit.ly Offers Customized URL Shortening for Free “And now for another announcement in the white-hot world of….URL shortening? Yep. In the second URL shortener announcement this week, bit.ly (news, site) is announcing that its bit.ly Pro service, which lets organizations … Continue reading →

HP sues Oracle as tech big shots’ animosity grows – Forbes.com “In the lawsuit, HP accuses Oracle of anticompetitive behavior, breaking a promise to continue supporting Itanium machines and of the use of “strong-arm tactics to coerce customers into replacing … Continue reading →

Java standards process to get an upgrade | Application Development – InfoWorld “New procedures are part of the recently introduced Java Specification Request 348. “This JCR — nicknamed JCP.next — proposes a variety of changes to do with transparency, participation, … Continue reading →

The first Chromebook Review: Samsung Series 5 | ZDNet “So it is that I’m pretty happy with my brand new Samsung Series 5 3G even though CNET gave it a just “ok” rating pending software improvements. While neither Chromebook will … Continue reading →

Take Me Fishing | Blog | The Starter Fly Rod “Do you want to expand your horizons into fly fishing?  If you aren’t fly fishing already, you should give it a try!  It doesn’t matter where you live or fish… … Continue reading →

Doctor Who’s Daleks to get ‘a rest’ | Television & radio | guardian.co.uk “The Daleks, the most well known adversaries of Doctor Who’s timelord, are being sent into temporary exile, showrunner Steven Moffat has revealed. Moffat said that he had decided … Continue reading →

Apple launches iCloud; here’s what powers it — Cloud Computing News “Apple officially launched its much-hyped iCloud suite of services at its Worldwide Developer Conference today, and although the capabilities are sure to be the talk of the town among … Continue reading →

Why OSCON Java? – O’Reilly Radar “OSCON Java 2011, being held July 25-27 in Portland, Ore., is focused on open source technologies that make up the Java ecosystem. (This event is co-located with OSCON.)” tags: java conference Posted from Diigo. … Continue reading →

Google pits C++ against Java, Scala, and Go • The Register “Google has released a research paper closely comparing the performance of C++, Java, Scala, and its own Go programming language. According to Google’s tests (PDF), C++ offers the fastest runtime … Continue reading →

DNA logic gates calculate square root using 130 different molecules “Before you have visions of DNA controlling Skynet, it’s worth taking a second to consider the system’s limitations: all those molecules were used to simply perform square roots on four-bit … Continue reading →

Oracle gives OpenOffice to Apache | ZDNet “In a statement issued this morning, June 1st, Oracle’s Luke Kowalski, VP of Oracle Corporate Architecture Group, stated that the company was going to “contribute the OpenOffice.org code to The Apache Software Foundation’s … Continue reading →