Newscast for March 10th 2011
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com- Dick -> Keynote at DevNexus on 21-22nd
- Tor -> Eclipsecon
- Java 7 developer builds are now available for download and testing.
- The upcoming EclipseCon 2011, being held from March 21st to 24th at the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara, CA, will feature a keynote on the IBM Watson supercomputer that recently beat the Jeopardy champs.
Quick News sponsored by Constant Contact
- Contant Contact is seeking several skilled Java engineers for positions in Boston and San Francisco.
- Oracle has release GlassFish version 3.1.
- Apple released an update to Java for Mac OS X 10.6.
- Chronon systems have announced a public beta of the Chronon time travelling debugger for Java.
- Joe Darcy has stepped down as OpenJDK6 release manager.
- Thomas Enebo and the jRuby community step up to work on JRuby and Ruby support in NetBeans 7.
ScalaWags
- ScalaDays 2011 will be held at Stanford University on June 2nd and 3rd 2011.
Android
- According to a comScore report, Android is now the most used smartphone OS in the United States.
- http://www.androidguys.com/2011/03/08/comscore-android-mostused-smart-phone-os/
- http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/07/technology/android/index.htm
- And it's not just the US. A recent IDC report shows that Android displayed similar explosive growth in Europe, with a 1580% jump in sales in one year.
- http://www.androidguys.com/2011/03/09/android-explodes-europe-tune-1580-growth/
- The new Google maps navigation routing now takes traffic into account when planning your route to give you the quickest route for the current traffic conditions.
- More details have emerged about Amazon's upcoming Android application store, and it's starting to sound pretty good.
- 58 applications have been removed from the Android marketplace by Google following the discovery that they contained a trojan containing malicious code.
- http://blog.mylookout.com/2011/03/security-alert-malware-found-in-official-android-market-droiddream/
- https://www.mylookout.com/download
- Despite how this is being spun in the media, the same problem occurred for Apple with the iPhone app store in Feb 2010
- http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10446402-245.html
Random Crap
- iPad 2
- http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/03/08/colbert-wants-an-ipad-2/
- ComputerWorld has a fairly extensive FAQ about the Motorola Xoom
- http://blogs.computerworld.com/17867/motorola_xoom_faq
- Chrome 10 has been released by Google.
Thanks
- Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
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- Kirsty Doherty, Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
- Theme Music:
- 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.
- Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
- Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
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