Java Posse Episode 311 - Newscast for June 11th 2010 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com *Potentially interested in Scala training/consultancy? Please help us out by filling in the very short survey, and give us your email if you would like to know more (opt.
Java Posse Episode 311 - Newscast for June 11th 2010
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at
http://javaposse.com- Potentially
interested in Scala training/consultancy? Please help us out by filling
in the very short survey, and give us your email if you would like to
know more (optional).
- Apple
WWDC keynote + Steve Jobs at D8
- Closures,
closures, closures
Quick
News
- Jazoon took place last week in Switzerland
- Google
now has all of the sessions from Google IO available in video form for
free.
- The
Silicon Valley Codecamp 2010 details.
- Google's
Chrome OS now has an announced launch window - late fall 2010.
- Apple
has released Java updates for Mac OS X mirroring the recent security
bug fixes in Java 6 U20.
- The
YourKit profiler, a popular commercial Java profiling tool, has reached
version 9.0.
ScalaWags
- The
UK's national health service has just produced two new websites, both
powered by Scala.
- Scala
IDE for Eclipse has moved to a new home at scala-ide.org.
- Sony
is the latest manufacturer to promise an Android tablet.
- T-mobile
has announced that all devices in the MyTouch series of handsets will
receive an update to Android 2.2 - froyo
- More
details are slowly emerging about Google TV and in particular the
Logitech box that will be available in the fall.
- And
Motorola are apparently going to create as many as 20 Android powered
phones in 2010.
- Adobe
has opened their AIR platform to Android devices.
- Dell
have announced that the Streak, a 5 inch android phone/tablet
crossover, will be launching next month for $500 on their website.
- Archos
have announced their first Android powered tablet, a 7 inch device.
- Google
maps navigation for Android devices is now available for Austria,
Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands,
Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland.
- T-mobile
now offers the first Garminfone based on Android.
- 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.
- 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.
- Qualcomm
has announced new dual-core 1.2 GHz snapdragon CPUs to be available
before the end of the year.
- Intel
has announced a new Atom based processor platform with speeds up to
1.5GHz for phone and up to 1.9GHz for tablets.
- T-Mobile,
all phones "free" on June 19th (father's day?)
Thanks
The
Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
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