Sun Microsystems has announced the latest release of the OpenSolaris 2009.06 operating system, delivering industry leading features in networking, storage and virtualization, along with significant performance enhancements and developer productivity updates. Central to the new release is the inclusion of Project Crossbow, a networking technology development.
Software testing while one of the most important tasks done in a development project is often misunderstood and abused by everyone from programmers and managers to testers. Wikipedia calls testing “an empirical investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under testing, with respect to the context in which it is intended to operate.”
Sun means to go into the cloud building business Monday. It’s supposed to announce a new portfolio of professional services aimed at businesses of all sizes called the Cloud Strategic Planning Service at the CommunityOne West conference in San Francisco
I believe that we really do live in a Mobile World, which is driven by the latest and greatest Smartphone’s around. Lets face it, the majority of us love our gadgets and the more powerful the better! So to investigate my thoughts, against a larger community, I recently used the LinkedIn Poll facility. Here are the results I found, that reinforce what I thought.
Quickoffice, Inc., the leading global provider of mobile office productivity software, today released additional features for its iPhone application, increasing Microsoft Office functionality while on the go. Quickoffice's latest 1.2.0 update adds important capabilities to all four of its applications, which include Quickoffice® Mobile Office Suite, Quicksheet®, Quickword® and Quickoffice® Files.
The influence of open source continues to expand across software markets. As open source becomes increasing ubiquitous, new patterns are emerging that will have a profound effect on adopter IT strategies and on the model itself. This white paper from Actuate will look at how open source is evolving the software industry in numerous ways.
Xandros today announced that key staff will present a birds-of-a-feather session on using standard Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) technologies to maximize maintainability on Application Stores projects at the Sun JavaOne conference, Moscone Center, San Francisco, June 2, 2009. With the explosion of new mobile computing platforms, from smartphones to netbooks to e-book readers, an application store is no longer optional. It is a key contributor to the success of a platform.
Sun's Project Vector, which will be launched at JavaOne this week as the Java Store, is a network service to connect companies of all sizes and types to the roughly one billion Java users all over the world. According to Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz it "has the potential to deliver the world's largest audience to developers and businesses leveraging Java and JavaFX."
Tel Aviv based start-up justAd.TV today announced the successful interoperability of the justAd.TV STB Agent with the Sun Java Media Client software. This interoperability allows TV providers to easily insert embedAds(TM), justAd.TV's wide variety of new ad formats, into non-linear TV viewer experiences such as VOD and PVR, without requiring changes or upgrades to the video delivery network.
Dennis Reedy will do a joint-presentation with one of our customers, Ronald Bowers, working for the Army Research Lab, during JavaOne 09. This BoF is schedule on Wednesday, June, 3rd at 7:45pm. Here is the abstract of the session called Cloud Computing and NetBeans™ IDE Enable Army Research Lab’s Next-Generation Simulation System. This presentation provides an overview of how the [...]
Part 3 of 6. Revolution launched by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Part 5 of 6. The modern search for extra-solar planets.
Teradata Corporation has announced the Teradata Developer Exchange, a web site which supports a thriving and dynamic online data warehouse development community. It connects Teradata engineers, customers, partners and academics who are building and deploying solutions based on the market-leading Teradata platforms and database.
An enterprise service bus (ESB) forms the backbone of SOA deployments and is the efficient successor to point-to-point architectures. Selecting the ESB for a SOA project is an important part of the planning stage. With an increased shift toward lean and agile software development, businesses are looking for improved time-to-market and efficiency at reduced costs.
What would life on earth be like without the moon? Well, chances are, there wouldn't be any life on earth without the moon. Life if it had started at all would still be in the earliest stages of evolution.
The Soviet Story. Please pay close attention to this documentary. What happened in Communist Russia and Nazi Germany is happening tous now. The big question is, can we stop it or make a difference; yes we can ;) Do we need to be listening to the David Ickces and Jordan Maxwells of the world, no we dont. Are we going to stop the fascist New World Order, I bloody hope so ;)
Find out why some feel the Federal Reserve's practices are a violation of the U.S. Constitution and others feel it's simply "a bunch of organized crooks." Discover why experts agree the Fed is a banking cartel that benefits mainly bankers and their corporate clients as well as a Congress that would rather increase the National Debt to over $10 trillion than raise taxes. Find out how the corporate media facilitates the partnership between the Fed and Congress and why it fails to disclose what's going on. Lastly, find out how the Federal Reserve-member banks are owned and controlled by an elite group of insiders.
Seismic engineers are hurrying to finish a $400 million retrofit of San Francisco's famous bridge to make sure it can withstand the next earthquake. It is a race against time.
May 2009. Foreign fishing fleets stole their lobsters, which drove them to desperation. This is the reason given by poor Somali fishermen who turned into gun-toting pirates mugging giant ships for millions of dollars.
Ruby Ridge used to refer to a geographical location in the state of Idaho, but after an incident that took place there 10 years ago on Aug. 21, the phrase has come to refer to a scandalous series of events that opened the eyes of many people to the inner workings of the federal government, including the vaunted Federal Bureau of Investigation. Now that 10 years have passed, the feds will accelerate their ongoing effort to move forward and have the scandal declared ancient history. But the Ruby Ridge episode should not be soon forgotten.
Every day natural resources are being rapidly depleted, while production and consumption rise in nations like China and India. In response to this crisis, a new philosophy promoting a non-toxic or recyclable destiny for all man-made products has triggered a new industrial revolution among designers and manufacturers. Rob van Hattum's award-winning documentary explores how companies such as Nike, Herman Miller and Ford are experimenting with completely clean and sustainable production methods and products following the concept that "waste=food."
The world's most famous vampire has been undead for over a century. The famous novel Dracula, written by Irish author Bram Stoker, was a mixture of reality, superstition, fearful fantasies and history. Stoker's role model for the novel was an actual Romanian Prince born in the 15th century: Vlad Tepes or "Vlad the Impaler," so named because of his favorite method of executing his enemies - the horrific medieval torture known as "impaling." And so "Vlad the Impaler" and the Transylvania vampire Count Dracula, became forevermore, one and the same.
This is an incredible modern-day story of a native peoples' victory over Western globalization. Sick of seeing their environment ruined and their people exploited by the Panguna Mine, the Pacific island of Bougainville rose up against the giant mining corporation, Rio Tinto Zinc. The newly formed Bougainville Revolutionary Army began fighting with bows and arrows and sticks and stones against a heavily armed adversary. In an attempt to put down the rebellion the Papua New Guinean Army swiftly established a gunboat blockade around the island. But with no shipments allowed in or out, how did new electricity networks spring up on the island? And how were the people of Bougainville able to drive around the island without any source of petrol or diesel? Watch as the world's first eco-revolution unfolds within the blockade. A David and Goliath story for the 21st century. A multi-award winning documentary
