Archives : October-2011
Judging by the announcements that Oracle rolled out at last weeks JavaOne show, the future of Java will continue to be bright. Oracle shared plans for new releases of the three Java editions–Java Standard Edition (SE) 8, Java Enterprise Edition (..
Oracle put the focus on Java recently with previews of developments yet to come. I would say that Java is in better strategic shape on several levels, Al Hilwa, a research director at IDC, told TechNewsWorld. The most important aspect is unblocking s..
Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, today announced that it has received a 2011 Enterprise App Award from CRN for mobile applications that extend its Switchvox unified communications (UC) solution. Also known as “The Appys,” CRNs inaugural Enterpr..
Oracle had lots of Java announcements at this years JavaOne. So far the plans include: The availability of an early access version of JDK 7 for the Mac OS, plans to bridge the gap between Java ME and Java SE, an approach to modularizing Java SE 8 t..
Kevin P. Fleming recently posted an entry on the Asterisk Wiki about Asterisk SCF that goes as follows:… the Asterisk SCF SIP components will provide all the mechanisms required to implement authentication of incoming requests, but they wont prov..
It is a pleasure to me to announce that Bitbucket now supports Git repos in addition to Mercurial. As they say All the features you expect from Bitbucket, with unlimited private repos for free. For independent developers who are willing to maintain th..
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..
On Slashdot:Russian security software vendor Elcomsoft has released an app that it claims can determine BlackBerry handheld passwords. The software supposedly hacks the BlackBerry password via an advanced handheld security setting thats meant to encr..