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Mitch Pronschinske05/07/10
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Daily Dose - World Wide Web Lives Up to its Name: Non-Latin Addresses Go Live

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...

Mitch Pronschinske05/06/10
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Some Sparring at the Web 2.0 Browser Panel

Surprising announcements and competitive sparring made the Web 2.0 Expo's browser discussion panel very interesting and revealing. While Mozilla's Brendan Eich (creator of JavaScript) rode the open source high-horse, Giorgio Sardo from Microsoft revealed...

Mitch Pronschinske05/06/10
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Cloud Monitoring Goes Mobile

As more IT organizations realize the benefits of cloud monitoring solutions, sys-admins will start asking, "Hey, why can't I access our monitoring software on my phone?" Companies like CloudKick provide a web interface, but today a cloud systems,...

Mitch Pronschinske05/06/10
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Daily Dose - Adobe CTO Likens Apple to a 19th Century Railroad Company

In the 1800's, different railroad companies around the world used different gauges for the rails, making trans-national travel very difficult. Because of companies like Apple, the same thing is happening in the mobile development space, according to Adobe...

Mitch Pronschinske05/05/10
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New Element Added To HTML5

A new HTML5 element was noticed today on the WHATWG twitter feed. The <track> element brings an important feature to HTML5 media - text and markers. Along with chapter markers and metadata, the <track> element lets web authors put subtitles...

Mitch Pronschinske05/05/10
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Daily Dose - Microsoft's CLI for Browsers?

Mono Project lead Miguel de Icaza recently suggested that web developers could write much better applications if the Common Language Infrastructure (CLR), upon which the .NET framework sits, were integrated into today's browsers. de Icaza says it would give...

Mitch Pronschinske05/04/10
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Mahout, HBase Among Six Apache Graduates

Today the Apache Software Foundation graduated five sub-projects and one incubator project en masse to Top-Level Projects. Mahout, Nutch, Tika, Avro, and HBase were the five graduated sub-projects, and the recently donated Apache Traffic Server was promoted...

Mitch Pronschinske05/04/10
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Daily Dose - What Do You Want To See in Silverlight 5?

There's no rest for Microsoft's Silverlight team. They are already preparing to schedule new features to go into Silverlight 5. Version 4 was announced at the MIX 10 conference, and in an effort to maintain their fast tempo of Silverlight releases,...

Mitch Pronschinske05/03/10
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Daily Dose - Adobe Wants Employees to Abandon the iPhone Too

Adobe is encouraging employees to eat their own mobile dogfood by giving them all free Android phones (which will soon be running Flash 10.1) at the Google I/O conference. This is an effort to promote company unity behind the iPhone's competitors after...

Mitch Pronschinske05/01/10
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Daily Dose - Good-gle Gives Back to Linux

The official Linux tree will be getting a nice present from Google very soon. The company recently assigned two developers to begin integrating features back into the Linux tree that Google created in its Android Linux kernel development. Integrating some...

Mitch Pronschinske04/30/10
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IE9 and the HTML5 Video Debate

Last month at MIX 10, Microsoft unveiled Internet Explorer 9, the first Microsoft browser to comply with many of the modern web standards like HTML5, CSS3, and SVG. Reports were mainly focused on the fact that IE was finally catching up to the latest web...

Mitch Pronschinske04/30/10
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Daily Dose - Lucid Lynx Officially on the Prowl

Two years after the last Ubuntu Long Term Service release, Canonical has delivered the next version of Ubuntu that comes with three years of desktop support and five years of server support. Codenamed 'Lucid Lynx', the 10.04 release of Ubuntu LTS features a...

Mitch Pronschinske04/30/10
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A Better Browser Cache

Steve Sounders works on Google's web performance and open source initiatives. He recently wrote up a call to improve browser caching and revealed the surprising results of a browser cache survey. The survey showed that 55% of the respondents had a...

Mitch Pronschinske04/29/10
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Why Apple Bans Flash: Thoughts on Steve Jobs' Open Letter

A rare and unexpected open letter from Steve Jobs was published today on apple.com outlining (at great length) why Apple refuses to allow the Flash player and Flash-developed apps onto the iPhone and iPad. After reading the letter, I decided to share a few...

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...