Over time, Windows loses stability. If you keep a computer for more than two years, at some point you're going to have to bite the bullet and reinstall Windows from scratch. But contrary to popular belief, you won't have to reformat your hard drive (with one exception, discussed below). The bad stuf
Oracle may end up merging the best of OpenSolaris with Linux once it takes control of Sun Microsystems, but it is unlikely to kill off Sun's widely used Solaris OS, analysts said.On a conference call Monday, Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison said one of the primary reasons Oracle is interested in Sun is
Leaders in the Linux community seemed resigned to the fact that Linux still hasn't made headway in the desktop market, but they made it clear on Monday that their success in other markets, such as mobile, is at least as important.At the Linuxcon event in Portland, Oregon, panelists on one session th
The European Commission Friday scaled back its ambitions to create a U.S. Federal Communications Commission-style regulator for the European Union, after lawmakers opposed the move in September."The European Telecoms Authority proposed by the Commission will be substantially smaller in size and
If you've ever let a stranger borrow your corporate smartphone, you may have just given him a gift of your company's data.The reason: he might have palmed a small USB device called the CSI Stick, and surreptitiously plugged it into your phone. The device can drain every bit of data from a cell phone
Would the Java community thrive as well under Oracle's control as it did under Sun Microsystems'? Vendors of Java products seem split about the question.Mark Little, who is Red Hat's chief technologist for middleware and a member of the Java Community Process (JCP) executive committee, raised the co
I was the very first person to buy an HTC Diamond at JavaOne. (Jacob Lehrbaum probably thought he was about to be mugged as I stalked him into the Java Store.) It worked out great for my presentations, but I had to tip-toe around some issues that showed up only on applications deployed t
Manufacturers of the numerous JavaTM technology-based handsets have traditionally relied on the Java Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK) to test their products before introducing them to market. While reliable in terms of what it is designed to measure -- compatibility and logical consistency with st
The Mobility Platform team has been working on a number of new features and enhancements since the release of GlassFish Mobility Platform v1.1 in February 2009. One of those features is the ability to run the Mobility Platform software on top of Glassfish ESB. There is a clear synergy between the Mo
On the Internet, content delivery (sometimes called content distribution , content distribution delivery , or content caching ) is the service of copying the pages of a Web site to geographically dispersed server s and, when a page is requested, dynamically identifying and serving page content from
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