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Mitch Pronschinske04/29/10
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Daily Dose - HP to Buy Palm

Palm has been struggling to find a company willing to buy them out ever since their quarterly sales and stock prices plummeted. Now Hewlett-Packard has announced its willingness to buy Palm and its struggling smartphones - the price tag: $1.2 billion, which...

Mitch Pronschinske04/28/10
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Daily Dose - Hadoop is Safe From Google's MapReduce Patent

Google has just granted a patent license to the Apache Hadoop distributed computing framework, which uses a MapReduce process similar to Google's recently patented version of MapReduce ("System and method for efficient large-scale data pr

Mitch Pronschinske04/27/10
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Daily Dose - A Farewell to Floppy Disks

Sony announced that they will stop selling floppy discs this year, making them the final manufacturer to halt their production. You may not believe it, but even up until 2008, the company could still sell 8.5 million floppy disks just in Japan. Now demand...

Mitch Pronschinske04/26/10
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Daily Dose - Android Market Reaches 50k Apps; Development Accelerates

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...

Mitch Pronschinske04/24/10
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Daily Dose - Palm Software Lead's Last Day

Yesterday was the last day for Michael Abbot, the head of Palm's software and services team. The news comes as no surprise since Palm has been struggling to stay afloat or possibly get bought out now that their stock is declining. Palm did however, keep...

Mitch Pronschinske04/23/10
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Daily Dose - App Engine 1.3.3 Released

A new Google App Engine SDK for Java and Python was released this week. The 1.3.3 version includes changes and issue fixes for the data store, admin console, and deployment. The Python SDK has gained a shiny new experimental feature that lets you use...

Mitch Pronschinske04/22/10
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Daily Dose - Ken Thompson Still Has To Take Google's Language Test

An extremely ironic quote from the co-inventor of Unix and the C language, Ken Thompson, was found in the book Coders at Work. The quote was posted by Gawker today and reveals that even Ken Thompson was required to take a mandatory test on the language he...

Mitch Pronschinske04/21/10
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Daily Dose - The Future of Car and Smartphone Integration

Automaker Ford has announced that it will make the first vehicle that enables Blackberry and Android phones to use certain web apps through voice commands. The 2011 model of the Ford Fiesta, which will be released this summer, will be the first vehicle to...

Mitch Pronschinske04/20/10
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Daily Dose - iPhone 4G Leaked

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...

Mitch Pronschinske04/19/10
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Daily Dose - Apple, Google, Intel, IBM Hiring Practices Under Investigation

The US Department of Justice is investigating several major software companies according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The investigations are aimed at uncovering the details surrounding possible deals between companies not to steal each others'...

Mitch Pronschinske04/17/10
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Daily Dose - MonoTouch 3.0; Seems Unfazed by Apple's New Terms

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...

Mitch Pronschinske04/16/10
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Daily Dose - Scala 2.8 RC1

The first release candidate for the Scala 2.8 JVM language has been announced. 2.8 will be a major revision that will not be binary-compatible with the 2.7 branch. With an optimized compiler, Scala 2.8 will run 50% faster. The most notable changes...

Mitch Pronschinske04/15/10
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Daily Dose - Is Adobe Ready to Sue the Ever-Living Crap Out of Apple?

"Within a few weeks," says one report, Adobe will drop the lawsuit-bomb on Apple for locking out their Flash-to-iPhone compiler in the revised iPhone/iPad SDK development terms. The report comes to us via IT World, and they said that the change in...

Mitch Pronschinske04/14/10
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Daily Dose - Will Google's VP8 Video Codec Solve HTML5 Video Dilemma?

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...

Mitch Pronschinske04/13/10
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Daily Dose - How iAds Help Google

Competition is rarely what businesses really want, unless your company is trying to prove that it has a competitive market so that it can complete an acquisition. Such is the case for Google, who are currently trying to acquire AdMob, a mobile ad company. ...