Security analysts from F-Secure.com are concerned about the JailbreakMe.com exploit that allows the site to jailbreak iPhones and iPads. In an easily understandable Q&A they answered questions about this vulnerability and the risks it poses to every...
0 replies - 12322 views - 08/06/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Several months after the acquisition of GemStone, Spring has officially released a project integrating the company's technology. The first milestone of GemFire 1.0 now includes the Spring development approach in its distributed data management platform. ...
1 replies - 15175 views - 08/03/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
In this week's edition of 'Media Frenzy Over Basically Nothing,' Apple finally called a press conference to end all the crazy talk about possible recalls and "Antennagate". Apple CEO Steve Jobs threw up some stats during their presentation showing...
0 replies - 16984 views - 07/16/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
According to a Dice.com survey of hiring managers, Java skills were harder to find than IT security skills. In previous surveys, security specialists were harder to come by. Virtualization jobs have been easier to fill, according to the new numbers. ...
0 replies - 13497 views - 07/09/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Some big iPhone and Android news broke today - first, there was the iPhone 4 release, which may have reached record-breaking sales levels. However, there were a few problems with the phone that users noticed today as they brought home their pretty new...
0 replies - 11722 views - 06/24/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Google switched the custom license for their WebM package to the OSI-approved BSD license this weekend. The Open Source Initiative had some issues with the previous BSD-like license on WebM because the copyright and patent grants were combined within the...
0 replies - 9763 views - 06/06/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
After losing two leaders of the Android project, Google is filling the void with the lead designer of Palm's WebOS, Matias Duarte. Duarte, a UI master, will be Android's new User Experience director. While this is great news for Android fans, it's bad for...
0 replies - 12711 views - 05/27/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The German tech company, Nero AG, is suing MPEG-LA on antitrust charges this week because of the organization's burgeoning patent pool which now encumbers almost every video codec available. People have even questioned whether open source video codecs like...
0 replies - 11727 views - 05/24/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The Google App Engine 1.3.4 prerelease went live this weekend with authentication capabilities for apps. Applications will be able to authenticate with Open ID by selecting the OpenID option when generating an application in the admin console. A new API...
0 replies - 11797 views - 05/16/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
ICANN has now begun allowing non-latin characters to be used in top-level internet domains by inserting the first IDN country-code domains into the DNS root zone. Arab countries including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE were the first countries to get...
0 replies - 11831 views - 05/06/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Stats from androlib.com show that the Android Marketplace has surpassed 50k Apps, and app production has been accelerating. In December there were around 4,000 new Android apps. Each of the last two months have seen over 8,000 new apps accepted into the...
0 replies - 13024 views - 04/25/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The fourth generation iPhone was found in a Redwood City bar about a week ago and is now in the hands of Gizmodo, who reported on the story. All signs indicate that this is the real deal. All the hardware is next-generation and clearly labeled...
0 replies - 14948 views - 04/19/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Novell VP and Mono project lead Miguel de Icasa isn't worried that MonoTouch might fall under Apple's new restrictions that banned Adobe's Flash-to-iPhone compiler. He just announced the release of MonoTouch 3.0, which adds support for iPhoneOS 4.0's new...
0 replies - 12335 views - 04/16/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
There may still be hope for people who favor a single, non-patented <video> tag standard in HTML5. A report by NewTeeVee says a source with inside knowledge of Google tells them that the company is planning to announce the open sourcing of On2's VP8...
0 replies - 17621 views - 04/13/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The iPhone 4.0 SDK beta is here and yes, it comes with multitasking - sort of. It's not true multitasking because it's not the type of free-for-all that would drain the battery and crash the system. Basically, it pauses applications so you can run parts...
0 replies - 12841 views - 04/08/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
