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Mitch Pronschinske06/04/10
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Daily Dose - Google Adds Initial Support for WebM

The latest developer channel version of Chrome now has support for WebM, which includes the VP8 video codec.  Believe it or not, Chrome is actually the third browser to add support for WebM even though Google was the company that started the whole...

Mitch Pronschinske06/03/10
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Daily Dose - WebSockets Updated and RLZ Open Sourced

The Chromium blog announced today the updating of the WebSocket specification and the open sourcing of the RLZ library for Chrome.  The RLZ library has helped Google accurately track and measure the success of marketing promotions and distribution...

Mitch Pronschinske06/02/10
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Daily Dose - Chrome OS Coming in the Fall

Sometime around November 2010, Google expects to release its lightweight Chrome Operating System.  According to Reuters, a top Google executive made the announcement recently, and Microsoft apparently balked at the Chrome's open source operating system...

Mitch Pronschinske06/01/10
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Daily Dose - Some C++ Constructs Allowed into the GCC

The GNU Compiler Collection committee along with the Free Software Foundation have allowed the use of certain C++ constructs in the GCC source code, effective immediately.  More advanced C++ features such as multiple inheritance, templates, and exceptions...

Mitch Pronschinske05/31/10
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Daily Dose - Will Patent Trolls Buy Novell?

Novell revealed last week that it was putting itself up for auction after turning down a $2 billion acquisition offer.  The thing that has the software industry worried is Novell's mother-load of patents: at least 450 related to office applications, identity...

Mitch Pronschinske05/28/10
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Daily Dose - Mozilla and Opera Want VP8 in HTML5

In recent interviews, the CEO of Mozilla and the CTO of Opera have said that they support VP8's inclusion in the HTML5 specification.  However, all is not well right now in determining a license for WebM (the package that includes VP8).  Google is having...

Mitch Pronschinske05/27/10
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Top 10 DZone Refcardz of 2009*

As part of our 100 Refcardz celebration week, we're looking back on the most popular Refcardz we've released here at DZone.  I put an asterisk "*" in the title to indicate that this is not a list of total...

Mitch Pronschinske05/27/10
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Daily Dose - Palm Loses WebOS Lead to Google

After losing two leaders of the Android project, Google is filling the void with the lead designer of Palm's WebOS, Matias Duarte.  Duarte, a UI master, will be Android's new User Experience director.  While this is great news for Android fans, it's bad for...

Mitch Pronschinske05/26/10
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Daily Dose - HP Trumps IBM in Server Revenue

For years, IBM has been at the top of the server game, but a new study by Gartner says that HP is the new leader in server revenues.  In Q1 of 2010 HP recorded $3.39 billion in revenue - IBM… $3.05 billion.  Ten years ago when HP acquired Compaq, the...

Mitch Pronschinske05/24/10
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Daily Dose - Nero AG Hits MPEG-LA With Antitrust Lawsuit

The German tech company, Nero AG, is suing MPEG-LA on antitrust charges this week because of the organization's burgeoning patent pool which now encumbers almost every video codec available.  People have even questioned whether open source video codecs like...

Mitch Pronschinske05/23/10
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Daily Dose - Redis 2 Release Candidate

The first release candidate for the NoSQL data store, Redis, is now available with new features such as significant performance optimizations, a new test suite, and an AOF (Aggregate Objective Function) check tool.  Committers to the project are finally...

Mitch Pronschinske05/21/10
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Daily Dose - Clang++ Gets a "Boost"

This week, Clang++, the C++ front-end compiler for the LLVM, had its first successful Boost regression test run.  Boost is a collection of open source, peer-reviewed C++ libraries, and it's known for using bleeding-edge C++ techniques (such as preprocessor...

Mitch Pronschinske05/20/10
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Daily Dose - Lightspark: Free, Open Flash

A free and open source Flash player has emerged this week in beta.  The Lightspark beta is close to having full ActionScript 3 support and it even includes debugging and profiling tools.  The software uses hardware accelerated OpenGL-based rendering and...

Mitch Pronschinske05/19/10
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Daily Dose - Spring Roo 1.1 Supports GWT, GAE, and Solr

With the first milestone release of Spring Roo 1.1.0, Project Lead Ben Alex says you can build a working web app with a Google Web Toolkit (GWT) front-end in as little as 200 keystrokes.  That's right, deep GWT support is finally here for Spring...