Monthly Archives: June 2012

No Flash for Android 4.1, no new installs after August 15 | Ars Technica “Adobe announced yesterday that its mobile version of Flash is completely unsupported on Android 4.1, and no new downloads of Flash from the Google Play store … Continue reading →

Liberty Profile in the cloud (WASdev) “Announcing the availability of the WebSphere Application Server V8.5-Liberty Profile Plugin V1.0 for Web Application Pattern Tech Preview. This is a new pattern type provided as a Technology Preview for the IBM Workload Deployer … Continue reading →

Manage application services with virtual application patterns “In the IBM® PureApplication™ System environment, a virtual application pattern is the critical element that allows a user to rapidly set up and manage cloud application infrastructure; a virtual application pattern describes an … Continue reading →

Apple Stores’ Army, Long on Loyalty but Short on Pay – NYTimes.com “Within this world, the Apple Store is the undisputed king, a retail phenomenon renowned for impeccable design, deft service and spectacular revenues. Last year, the company’s 327 global … Continue reading →

NASA Offers Web, Mobile Links To Follow Space Station And Mission Control – MarketWatch “NASA is using the Internet and smartphones to provide the public with a new inside look at what happens aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and … Continue reading →

Raspberry Pi Overview & Specs – Desktops – CNET Reviews “If you know one thing about the Raspberry Pi PC, it’s most likely the fact that it’s almost comically inexpensive. $35, to be exact. And what do you get for … Continue reading →

I analyzed the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns. This is what I found. | Blog – Hooktheory “In this article, we’ll look at the statistics gathered from 1300 choruses, verses, etc. of popular songs to discover the answer … Continue reading →

IBM Worklight user documentation “This Getting Started page contains a series of modules that offer step-by-step guidance on how to use the different parts of the IBM Worklight V5.0 product. The modules on this Getting Started page might include exercises. … Continue reading →

Can a vulnerability tell you when it’s being attacked? – IBM Software Blog “Last week we announced the release of AppScan Enterprise v8.6 and its ability to integrate with QRadar. QRadar – which automatically maintains and updates information about each … Continue reading →

Troubled Twinity bought by Exit Reality – Hypergrid Business “Metaversum, the developers of the 3D mirror world Twinity, today announced their acquisition by 3D Internet company ExitReality. Twinity has been having some problems recently. It hasn’t had any news announcements since May … Continue reading →

Microsoft Adds Linux To Azure Cloud Platform “Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) on Thursday is unveiling new Windows Azure cloud services, including support for Linux-based operating systems. Microsoft, which thought of Linux as a rival, will now offer several Linux distributions. They are Suse … Continue reading →

Apple Keeps Loyalty of Mobile App Developers – NYTimes.com “Smartphones running Google’s Android operating system outsell iPhones more than two to one. And yet, even as Google’s system has gobbled up market share, Apple has held onto one critical advantage … Continue reading →

Websphereusergroup.org “Keeping pace with the mobility market is daunting, and maintaining apps that need to work on various devices in this ever-changing market is like chasing a carrot around a dog track. How can you keep up? IBM’s acquisition of … Continue reading →

Hey Developers, Make Your Mobile Apps Blazing Fast | Forrester Blogs “Smartphone users are no exception to the “make it faster” rule. They expect their apps to be blazing fast. Mobile carriers and smartphone manufacturers juice up their expectations by … Continue reading →

IBM Design – Design gallery: Open RIA – Maqetta Mobile Authoring Overview “Maqetta is an IBM-initiated Dojo Foundation open source project for visual authoring of HTML5 user interfaces, for both desktop and mobile platforms. Maqetta includes many features that allow … Continue reading →