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On Slashdot:Amazons going to disable 3G web browsing on their upcoming Kindle Touch 3G — even though it was a prominent feature of the last generation of Kindles. Amazon will still allow web browsing on the Kindle Touch 3G using a local Wi-Fi connecti..

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From Slashdot:Ars Technica analyzes the recent commercial additions by Oracle to MySQL Enterprise and the additional unrest its added to the community. Oracle may be throwing itself out of the community as it pushes more customers to look at fully open-sou..

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The MariaDB project would like to announce the availability of MariaDB 5.3.1-beta, the latest addition to our growing lineup of supported software. MariaDB 5.3.1-beta is a bug-fix update to the previous 5.3.0-beta. The MariaDB 5.3 series introduces m..

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people,I would like to share this article as I found it of really high relevance to everyone that would like to use Java as a programming language:If you believe Oracle’s patent lawsuits against Google for its use of Java in Android, Google has sto..

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According to database pioneer Michael Stonebraker, Facebook is operating a huge, complex MySQL implementation equivalent to a fate worse than death, and the only way out is bite the bullet and rewrite everything. Not that its necessarily Facebooks fau..

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