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After more than two years, Borland has finally sold its CodeGear division to Embarcadero a database tools company for a mere $23 million. It's a sad ending to one of the great software companies of the 1980s and 1990s. And it shows just how badl
It's been interesting to see a large number of non-technical open source presentations at Java One this year. It's a sign that indicates that not only has Sun embraced open source, but they are also attracting a new audience that is interes
The CoreAVC-for-Linux project is back up days after it was pulled due to a DCMA complaint, which turned out to be erroneous
I'm sitting here beside Sun's A. Sundararajan before the JavaOne keynote starts. He is one of the core developers on Sun's HDcookbook project. I didn't know this, but all of our Blu-ray players have a J2ME JVM inside. So, if you w
A friend sent this to me...thought I'd share the list. Funny how vendors like Xerox, TI or even "MEMC Electronic Materials" (seriously, who are they??) get virtually no attention compared to the Yahoo's & EBay's of th
Google throws its support behind the fledgling oCERT security reporting group for the open-source community
I learned too much from the audience at last year's RedMonk Unconference at CommunityOne last year to not attend this year. I got there a little later in the day, so I missed some of the early sessions, especially on TaskTop ;-( The discussion o
Before kicking off Java One this week in San Francisco, Sun held their second Community One conference, pulling in several thousand developers for a free technical conference. While there was a large keynotes in the morning featuring Ian Murdock of D
Google has removed its CoreAVC for Linux project after a complaint from the codec's developer for 'reverse engineering without permission'
Sorry if I'm a bit iPhone obsessed lately. But what the heck. Since my buddy Joe seemed to know all about the iPhone 3G release, I figured I'd share what I learned from him and from a bit of web research. Looks like the new iPhone is slated