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Has the Motorola Droid 'Force' Hit You?

The buzz surrounding Motorola's Droid, one of the most anticipated handsets to date, reached a deafening peak today.  In an effort to compete with the iPhone,...

3 replies - 856 views - 11/06/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/6

After being criticized for selling Facebook fans and Twitter followers, uSocial says it has started selling YouTube viewers as well.  uSocial says companies...

0 replies - 1078 views - 11/06/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/5

The EU could issue a formal objection to the Oracle-Sun deal within the next few days according to a Financial Times report.  Just a few weeks ago, the EU's...

1 replies - 1465 views - 11/05/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/30

The final version of Ubuntu 9.10 is here at last.  The new system has improved graphics drivers along with DeviceKit and udev for the hardware interface...

0 replies - 2605 views - 10/30/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/29

The US Department of Defence released a memo saying that they allow and encourage the use of open source software.  It took them six years to clarify this...

0 replies - 2248 views - 10/29/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/23

Firefox may release its upcoming version 3.6 as a so-called "minor update" even though it is actually a fairly major one.  Mike Beltzner, director...

0 replies - 2563 views - 10/22/09 by lyndsey in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/22

According to Amazon, the world's biggest software company has also racked up the largest number of pre-orders of any product, EVER! That's right, Amazon...

0 replies - 2357 views - 10/22/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Giant Eclair Heralds Android 2.0

Google just added a new oversized confection to their front lawn where the giant Android robot resides.  The odd ritual is based on a precedent for new...

0 replies - 2353 views - 10/16/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Intel Announces a Developer Program for Atom Platform

Intel is looking to build a developer community around its Atom processor.  At the Intel Developer Sept. 22, CEO Paul Otellini introduced the Atom Developer...

2 replies - 1814 views - 09/23/09 by CodeJustin in News

OpenGL 3.2 Brings Better Performance

The Khronos Group announced OpenGL 3.2, the third major update in twelve months to the most widely adopted 2D and 3D graphics API for personal computers and...

0 replies - 1316 views - 08/07/09 by CodeJustin in News

PDF vulnerability exploited with Flash

When Adobe released Acrobat 9 last year, the company introduced support for embedding Flash media in PDF files. This feature is now being used by attackers who...

0 replies - 428 views - 07/29/09 by CodeJustin in News

Google Wave - Most Innovative Product of 2009?

Yesterday at Google I/O attendees got to see a preview of the new Google Wave communication system. Developed out of the Google Sydney offices, Lars Rasumussen...

7 replies - 9085 views - 05/29/09 by James Sugrue in Videos

Google Says: Everybody Stop Using IE6

Have you heard the news? Google is urging users of it's popular GMail application to stop using Internet Explorer 6 and rather opt for either Firefox or, you...

7 replies - 2664 views - 01/02/09 by Schalk Neethling in News

iPhone Bootcamp Day 5

Today is Day 5 — the final day — of the iPhone bootcamp at Big Nerd Ranch,taught by Joe Conway. The last day of Big Nerd Ranch bootcamps arehalf-days so...

0 replies - 1292 views - 12/15/08 by Scott Leberknight in News

iPhone Bootcamp Day 4

Since we had not completely finished up the Core Graphics lab from Day 3,we spent the first hour completing the lab exercise, which was to builda "Tile...

0 replies - 1620 views - 12/11/08 by Scott Leberknight in News