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Mitch Pronschinske09/14/10
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Daily Dose - Linus Torvalds is a US Citizen

Since 1997, Linux inventor Linux Torvalds has lived and worked in the USA, but today we found out that he officially became a US citizen last week.  The news came up in a conversation on the Linux Kernel Mailing List.  Torvalds mentioned he'd be getting his...

Mitch Pronschinske09/13/10
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Daily Dose - HTML5 Pack for Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Labs has announced an HTML5/CSS3/SVG pack for Illustrator this week.  The add-on is for the most recent class of the Creative Suite, CS5.  It helps designers easily create web content for various form factors.   Check out Mordy Golding's video...

Mitch Pronschinske09/12/10
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Daily Dose - Solaris 10 Update Arrives Ahead of OpenWorld

They couldn't wait ten more days for Oracle OpenWorld to release an update to the Solaris 10 operating system.  Oracle has quietly released the update along with new Solaris Cluster software and Solaris Studio development tools.  John Fowler explains the...

Mitch Pronschinske09/10/10
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Daily Dose - Windows Phone 7 Launch is Oct. 11 Say Sources

According to several anonymous sources, allegedly from Microsoft, the GA launch of the Windows Phone 7 OS is scheduled for October 11th.  Pocket-lint said it talked to the sources and they also said that handsets with the OS will ship later in October. ...

Mitch Pronschinske09/09/10
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Daily Dose - Schwartz Takes New CEO Position

Ex-Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz is a CEO once more!  He's started a new company called Informed Biometry.  No one knows what they do yet, but it's great news for Schwartz.  Now I want to know when he's going to write that 'tell all' biography.  Or at least...

Mitch Pronschinske09/08/10
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Daily Dose - Gemini Web M4 Upgrades Tomcat 6.0.29

The fourth milestone of Gemini Web (formerly Spring Dynamic Modules) was released today with various test and build improvements.  The project has also brought upgrades to Tomcat 6.0.29 that close security holes.  The changes also make embedded Tomcat work...

Mitch Pronschinske09/07/10
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Daily Dose - Larry Hires Bosom Buddy Mark Hurd, HP Sues

He called it "the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs."  Now Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has put his money where his mouth is and hired tennis buddy and HP ex-CEO Mark Hurd as Co-President of Oracle, squeezing...

Mitch Pronschinske09/06/10
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Daily Dose - Virgo M4 Prepares for Equinox Upgrade

The first beta of the Virgo Web Server (formerly the Spring dm Server) is getting very close now that the Eclipse Foundation released the fourth milestone recently.  M4 features various build and test improvements along with several bugfixes.  OSGi...

Mitch Pronschinske09/05/10
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Daily Dose - Google Pays Big Money to Keep Developers from Going to Facebook

LinkedIn has tracked approximately 118 former Google employees who have left after Facebook made offers that they couldn't refuse.  These offers likely included low priced private stock, according to TechCrunch.  That stock could end up hitting $100 billion...

Mitch Pronschinske09/02/10
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Daily Dose - Android Doesn't Count Upgrades as Activations Either

Google responded to Steve Jobs' implications at the iPod/Apple TV/iOS presentation this week.   At the presentation he said that Apple estimates about 230k new activations of iOS devices every day.  Jobs said that Apple thinks they're ahead of everyone...

Mitch Pronschinske09/01/10
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Daily Dose - Release Candidate for PostgreSQL 9.0

After four months in beta, the first release candidate of the open source database, PostgreSQL, is ready for download.  PostgreSQL 9.0 includes some awesome features like Hot Standby and Steaming Replication.  The developers don't think any changes in...

Mitch Pronschinske08/31/10
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Daily Dose - New Digg CEO Enters Riot Zone

Kevin Rose announced that he's stepping down as the interim CEO at Digg and raising Matt Williams up to the position.  Williams has worked in a variety of management roles at Amazon and GM.  He was also the founder and CEO of LiveBid.com.  From the...

Mitch Pronschinske08/30/10
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Daily Dose - The Emotion Markup Language

The W3C is working to formalize a language of emotional states for computers.  This would include more complex emoticons for human-to-human interaction as well as more human-like interaction capabilities for computers.  Hopefully this means that some day...

Mitch Pronschinske08/29/10
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Daily Dose - Do More with the Less Framework 2.0

The CSS3-based framework for dynamically resizing text columns on various form factors just got better.  The Less Framework will resize columns in a browser from 2 columns on a smartphone, to 5 columns in a tablet or netbook, and up to 8 columns in a...