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Sun's JavaFX: Smart Move or Too Much Caffeine?

Friday - May 9, 2008

Taking on the likes of Adobe and Microsoft, Sun Microsystems on Tuesday unveiled its new JavaFX family of products for building rich Internet applications. Based on Sun's longstanding Java platform, JavaFX includes a runtime and a tools suite that Web scripters, designers and developers can use to quickly build and deliver rich interactive applications for desktop, mobile devices, TV and other platforms. JavaFX Desktop for desktop browsers and applications will be available this fall, while JavaFX Mobile will ship in spring 2009. JavaFX TV is due to be available summer 2009. [More...]

Bush Beats Britney in Easter Egg Hunt

Wednesday - May 7, 2008

Software developers are known to hide all sorts of "Easter eggs" in their code, but code search engine Krugle has revealed just what might be found among the billions of lines of open source code available on the Web. Krugle searches across code repositories and development resources, using contextual search to provide insights to developers. [More...]

Into the Blu: Neil Young Touts High-Def Format at Sun Conference

Wednesday - May 7, 2008

Rebellious rocker Neil Young hates the sound of compact discs. So he waited 15 years for a different technology, which he says will allow him to share his life's work the way he wants his fans to enjoy it. Starting this fall, Young plans to release a comprehensive archive of music, videos and other material dating back to 1963 on a series of interactive Blu-ray discs. [More...]

Sun's OpenSolaris to Shine Through Amazon's Cloud

Monday - May 5, 2008

Sun Microsystems and the OpenSolaris community it created a few years ago have officially released the Unix-based OpenSolaris operating system into the wild. The two organizations shared the news at the CommunityOne Developer Conference Monday in San Francisco. OpenSolaris is based on Sun's Solaris kernel, but it has since been transformed into a more open and developer-friendly OS. [More...]

Pondering the Reiser Fallout

Monday - May 5, 2008

After the exuberance that followed Hardy Heron's landing not long ago, the mood on the Linux blogs shifted considerably last week in the wake of the conviction of ReiserFS file-system designer Hans Reiser of first-degree murder. Before the highly publicized trial, Reiser and his team were working on Reiser4. [More...]

The Social Side of Fund-Raising Online

Sunday - May 4, 2008

Online social networks used to be just gathering places for friends and long-lost acquaintances. Then the marketers arrived, followed by politicians and job recruiters -- all looking to tap into a growing mass of young people who are spending much of their time on the Web. [More...]

Geeks Making the World Better

Saturday - May 3, 2008

"Geeks making the world better one bit at a time." That's the playful slogan for the University of North Carolina's "Maze Day," during which scores of blind and visually impaired children from across the state came out Wednesday morning to test drive computer programs especially designed for them. [More...]

eBay, Craigslist Soap Opera Unfolds

Friday - May 2, 2008

eBay's strange legal dispute with Craigslist just got weirder. The auction giant has disclosed the details of its lawsuit against the king of online classifieds, and here's what the dispute boils down to: eBay took a stake in Craigslist, agreeing to certain conditions regarding competitive behavior. [More...]

Adobe Opens Formats to Shine Flash on More Screens

Thursday - May 1, 2008

Adobe Systems has assembled a group of industry leaders in an effort to put its Flash-based rich Internet solutions and content on most every screen -- PCs, mobile phones, MP3 players, televisions and any other consumer electronic device that might have a screen worthy of delivering content. The effort is called the "Open Screen Project," and it's supported by a who's-who of players. [More...]

The Fall of Reiser

Wednesday - April 30, 2008

It is unusual, but not unheard of, for a murder case to go forward if a body has not been found. It is even rarer for the charge to be first-degree murder -- and less common still for the defendant to be found guilty. Those were the exact circumstances, though, under which Hans Reiser was convicted Tuesday of the murder of his estranged wife, Nina. [More...]

Social Networking and Open Source: Cut From the Same Cloth

Tuesday - April 29, 2008

The ideas blend together so well. Open source has been around for a long time and is built on the concept of developers working together and sharing software. Social networking has broken into the headlines as a new generation uses MySpace and Facebook as a whole new means of sharing their life experiences. [More...]

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