JavaBlackBelt just announced its “Coached e-Learning” for Java developers. In a developer survey to be released next week, this Coached e-Learning was selected as the #1 choice for Java learning compared with classroom training and self-paced e-Learning.
Some walls are necessary. We use brick-and-mortar walls to support buildings and firewalls to protect our computers from attack. But not all walls are good. Consider the Berlin Wall, a wall of segregation. It divided a country and its citizens, but has subsequently been brought down by people working together because upon re-evaluation the Wall did more harm than good.
The Strategy Analytics Wireless Device Lab report, “Innovative Built-In Sensors Drive Enhanced Mobile Gaming Experience,” shows that mobile devices using touchscreens and accelerometers, such as the Apple iPhone, provide an enhanced mobile gaming experience.
Among the companies surveyed, Verizon Wireless and AT&T dominated business subscriptions, with AT&T slightly ahead in large enterprises (1000+), while Verizon showed greater penetration among small companies (under 100). Employees of large enterprises were also the most loyal BlackBerry users. This report also highlights that Symbian, Google Android and Apple’s iPhone are not serious contenders for US Business use.
Revenues for the third quarter of fiscal 2009 were $2.614 billion, as compared with $3.266 billion for the third quarter of fiscal 2008, and compared with $3.220 billion for the second quarter of fiscal 2009. Total gross margin as a percent of revenues was 42.7, a decrease of 2.2 percentage points as compared with the third quarter of fiscal 2008 and an increase of 0.8 percentage points as compared with the second quarter of fiscal 2009.
SpringSource has announced the general availability of SpringSource tc Server, an enterprise version of Apache Tomcat. SpringSource tc Server is hardened for enterprise use and coupled with the mission-critical operational capabilities and advanced diagnostics required by the most demanding IT environments. SpringSource tc Server is a drop-in replacement for Apache Tomcat 6, ensuring a seamless upgrade path for existing custom-built and commercial software applications already certified for Tomcat.
Yet I spent too many years writing, publishing, and producing for Sun to let this deal go uncommented upon. The relationship started when we shook hands and signed a deal with Ed Zander to acquire an in-house magazine on the day the Loma Prieta earthquake hit the Bay Area (I was with IDG at the time).
According to BusinessWeek, Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam has been speaking with Apple executives, and the iPhone rumor mills are saying that perhaps Verizon is considering becoming involved with Apple to help launch a smaller iPhone-like device currently under development.
WeatherBug, a leading provider of live, local weather information for consumer and professional users, today announced that its new Elite application for the iPhone and iPod touch is available on the Apple App Store. The new WeatherBug Elite app for iPhone and iPod touch will be free of advertising and includes: full radar animation and six additional contour layers including infrared satellite, humidity, air pressure, and wind speed.
Modulation Index and Tuner2 have chosen MPEG-4 HE-AACv2 (aka eAAC+) for its ability to deliver high quality stereo at only 32 kbit/s over 3G networks. Fully compatible with the 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards for audio streaming, the Modulation Index iPhone app uses RTP streaming for a more reliable mobile listening experience. The iPhone app also supports HE-AACv1 and mp3 SHOUTcast as well as Icecast2 streams, instant song purchase, song tagging, album art, shake random station selection, station search, and e-mail/Twitter stream now playing information. Each custom iPhone app has its own dedicated directory service dynamically configurable by the radio network customer.
As I noted at the time, Sun’s recent announcements with respect to Cloud Computing were sadly rather overshadowed by the torrent of interest around a piece on the Wall Street Journal site the same day, which broke the news that acquisition talks were allegedly underway between Sun and IBM. Much has changed since then and we [...]
This post is dedicated to Mitch Kapor, Jonathan Sachs, Dan Fylstra, Dan Bricklin, Bob Frankston, Ben Rosen, Ev, Biz, Jack, Bijan, Fred et al. A lot of people on that list, and I have had the privilege to know most of them, and I've met all of them.
The European Commission has reportedly drafted a final antitrust decision on Intel that – predictably – calls for a fine and a ban on Intel’s allegedly anticompetitive rebates, though what any “ban” – a complex issue – might entail remains to be seen. Imagine now a European entity regulating the business between two American firms like, oh, Intel and IBM, Intel and HP, Intel and Dell, Intel and Cisco, Intel and Apple, Intel and Sun or between Intel and any of the Asian firms.
The arrival of My.tel allows .tel owners with iPhones to manage their .tel domains without having to log on to a computer. Now they can quickly update information just before boarding a plane, travelling on a road trip, or just to quickly tell their friends which bar they are in.
How odd. Southeastern Asset Management, which spent $2.1 billion buying 22% of Sun over the last few years, didn’t wait around to collect Oracle’s $9.50 a share, money it should have been able to pick up by summer and a price it would have lost roughly $500,000 on. Instead it sold most of its 162 million shares to “unnamed parties” Monday at prices ranging from $9.04 to $9.09, costing it another $65 million–$80 million, according to Reuters, which read it in a regulatory filing.
This is a major milestone for an outstanding iconic Platform; from a company that always gives 100%... Apple... if they go into a market… they go into win!
VMIX continues to grow as a market leader with year-over-year triple-digit revenue growth and an expanding client list of dominant brands including Scion, Burton Snowboards, American Cancer Society, as well as top media and entertainment groups, including Tribune Company, McClatchy, Lee Enterprises, Raycom, Lin, and Post-Newsweek Stations.
Of the major companies that announced their earnings yesterday, two of them, AT&T and Apple, beat Wall Street estimates largely thanks to a single product: The iPhone. We’re approaching the two year birthday of the device, and it still remains one of the hottest items out there. Ladies and gentleman, the state of the iPhone is strong.
In accordance with the subscription accounting treatment required by GAAP, the Company recognizes revenue and cost of goods sold for iPhone(TM) and Apple TV(R) over their estimated economic lives. Adjusting GAAP sales and product costs to eliminate the impact of subscription accounting, the corresponding non-GAAP measures* for the quarter are $9.06 billion of "Adjusted Sales" and $1.66 billion of "Adjusted Net Income."
The conventional approach to scaling Java applications – distributing applications out on a large number of instances – yields diminishing returns, which leads to unpredictable scalability and escalating costs and complexity. Azul Compute Appliances have proven to dramatically increase application scalability while providing faster, more consistent response times.
This is an extremely rare TV re-edit of Harald Reinl's "Chariots of the Gods", based on the book by Erich Von Daniken, produced by Alan Landsburg, and narrated by the one and only Rod Serling. This was a sort of pilot for the later "In Search Of" television series (which was narrated by Leonard Nimoy)
Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali fought three times. Their first encounter aroused such anticipation it was dubbed the ""fight of the century"" before either boxer entered the ring. But it was their third and final confrontation on October 1, 1975, in the Philippines, that cemented their rivalry as one of history's greatest. By the late rounds, the fight had become a contest of pure will with both men on the verge of collapse. That momentwhen a fight becomes more important than life and deathexplains both the romance and the sickness of the sport. It wasnt a fight for a belt; it was a war. Whats remarkable about Thriller in Manila is how dramatically it conveys both the depths of this rivalry as well as the complex racial politics of the time.
The ancient Maya civilization of Central America left behind a riddle: an intricate and mysterious hieroglyphic script carved on stone monuments and painted on pottery and bark books. Because the invading Spanish suppressed nearly all knowledge of how the script worked, unlocking its meaning posed one of archaeology's fiercest challenges. Until now.
The discussions have begun about the seismic nature of the Oracle-Sun deal. This deal affects all the major players, as well as you!
Apple’s App Store is getting ever closer to hitting the 1 billion download milestone; check out http://www.apple.com/itunes/billion-app-countdown/ (in fact it is counting up). By my calculation it should reach its goal in the next few days or so and to be sure we will hear about it in the press!