Java Posse: Newscast for June 11th 2010

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• http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFFlSm8xcXBRLUxORnhLSUk3aTZOT3c6MQ
  

• Apple WWDC keynote + Steve Jobs at D8
• http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1006ad9g4hjk/event/index.html
  

• Closures, closures, closures
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/06/lambda-syntax-debate
• http://java.dzone.com/dose/dzone-daily-dose-513

Quick News

• Jazoon took place last week in Switzerland
• http://jazoon.com/
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2010/06/05/javanet-week-review-june-5-2010
  
• http://www.slideshare.net/fsearch/slideshow?q=jazoon

• BlueJ 3.0 (enhancements)
• http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/mik/2010/05/30/bluej-3-0-whats-new/

• Google now has all of the sessions from Google IO available in video form for free.
• http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions.html

• The Silicon Valley Codecamp 2010 details.
• http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions.html

• Google's Chrome OS now has an announced launch window - late fall 2010.
• http://www.slashgear.com/google-chrome-os-confirmed-for-late-fall-2010-0287952/

• Apple has released Java updates for Mac OS X mirroring the recent security bug fixes in Java 6 U20.

• http://www.geotauaisay.com/2010/05/update-java-for-mac-os-x/

• The YourKit profiler, a popular commercial Java profiling tool, has reached version 9.0.
• http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=60171

ScalaWags

• The UK's national health service has just produced two new websites, both powered by Scala.
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/6505

• Scala IDE for Eclipse has moved to a new home at scala-ide.org.
• http://www.scala-ide.org/2010/05/on-the-move/
  

Android

• Sony is the latest manufacturer to promise an Android tablet.
• http://9to5mac.com/sony_the_anti_apple

• T-mobile has announced that all devices in the MyTouch series of handsets will receive an update to Android 2.2 - froyo
• http://www.androidguys.com/2010/06/08/mytouch-3g-series-phones-android-22/

• More details are slowly emerging about Google TV and in particular the Logitech box that will be available in the fall.
• http://blog.logitech.com/2010/06/04/a-peek-under-the-hood-google-tv-and-logitech-harmony-link/

• And Motorola are apparently going to create as many as 20 Android powered phones in 2010.
• http://www.slashgear.com/motorola-20-new-android-phones-in-2010-0788585/

• Adobe has opened their AIR platform to Android devices.
• http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air2/android/
  
• https://prerelease.adobe.com/callout/default.html?callid={AEF64EB4-A977-4317-909A-14AD8014BA21}

• Dell have announced that the Streak, a 5 inch android phone/tablet crossover, will be launching next month for $500 on their website.
• http://www.androidguys.com/2010/06/02/dell-streak-launching-month-500-unlocked/

• Archos have announced their first Android powered tablet, a 7 inch device.
• http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/ARCHOS-Brings-the-First-Large-Screen-Android-Based-Tablet-Under-200-1160192.htm

• Google maps navigation for Android devices is now available for Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland.
• http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/06/fun-on-autobahn-google-maps-navigation.html

• T-mobile now offers the first Garminfone based on Android.
• http://www.t-mobile.com/templates/generic.aspx?passet=pro_pro_garminfone&WT.ac=0346HOM04

• NPR (National Public Radio for those outside the US) has open sourced the NPR client application for Android, and are actively looking for developers to help with it.
• http://www.npr.org/blogs/inside/2010/06/02/127366098/npr-android-and-you
  
• http://www.npr.org/blogs/inside/2009/12/the_npr_android_app_a_bazaar_b.html

• We mentioned this story briefly in episode 309 but now have more details. Palm has lost their lead webOS designer to Google, where he will be working on Android.

• http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/05/27/palm-loses-their-lead-webos-designer-to-the-google-android-team-others-may-follow/

• Qualcomm has announced new dual-core 1.2 GHz snapdragon CPUs to be available before the end of the year.

• http://www.androidguys.com/2010/06/01/dualcore-snapdragon-chips-run-android-12ghz/

• Intel has announced a new Atom based processor platform with speeds up to 1.5GHz for phone and up to 1.9GHz for tablets.
• http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/2010/20100504comp.htm

• T-Mobile, all phones "free" on June 19th (father's day?)
• http://www.tmonews.com/2010/06/june-19th-the-mother-of-all-fathers-day-sales/

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• Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
• written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
• Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
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