Hedging their defenses against litigious competitors, Google is poised to spend $900,000,000 on a collection of Nortel patents. Nortel has selected Google's...
0 replies - 10878 views - 04/05/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
It seems that today Google patented the Doodles, the special logos that appear on its homepage in occasion of events such as anniversaries of inventions or of...
1 replies - 3046 views - 03/22/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Users of Java SE and Java for Business can now code in a less error-prone environment. Update 24 for Java 6 spells the end of the floating point bug reported...
0 replies - 30495 views - 02/17/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
As always, there is so much discussion going on about HTML5 and video
on the web, and I thought I’d suggest a solution to it all.
Common assumptions and...
1 replies - 1493 views - 02/16/11 by Robert Nyman in News
Contracted code in Java can reveal failures much closer to their fault, shaving hours off your debugging sessions. It's good news then that Google has just...
1 replies - 27439 views - 02/06/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
1 replies - 6940 views - 02/01/11 by Snippets Manager in Uncategorized
PageRank is one of the base algorithms of Google Search, which uses it to order web pages for importance and authority independently from the current query to...
0 replies - 4655 views - 01/27/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
We've all seen them on various websites. Crappy search utilities. They are a constant reminder that search is not something you should take lightly...
2 replies - 61370 views - 01/25/11 by Peter ___ in Articles
0 replies - 7230 views - 01/17/11 by Snippets Manager in Uncategorized
The news, as announced on Google’s Chromium blog:
Google will no longer support H.264 as an option for native HTML5 video.They push WebM (VP8) and Theora as...
0 replies - 1736 views - 01/13/11 by Axel Rauschmayer in News
The four JSRs behind Java 7 and Java 8 were recently approved by the Executive Committee. However, there was a good deal of discontent among members who...
0 replies - 25690 views - 12/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The Oracle VM VirtualBox has reached version 3.2.12. The virtualization app for x86 hardware just received about 20 bugfixes fixing stability issues, 64-bit...
0 replies - 19164 views - 12/03/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Whatever happened to that October release planned for the Chrome web app store? It hit a snag apparently, but now there are signs that Google may have it...
0 replies - 17553 views - 12/02/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
A new beta release of NetBeans 7.0 is the first to provide JDK 7 support, allowing developers to choose Java 7 (still in development) as their target platform...
1 replies - 27730 views - 11/23/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The first beta for JBoss' Seam 3.0 framework is now available. It requires Weld 1.0.1 Beta 1+ and JBoss logging instead of SLF4J. This release includes an...
1 replies - 20013 views - 11/04/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
