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Archive - 07 May 2008

JavaOne: the ‘best of the rest’ awards

Blog If you’ve been digging into ZDNet.co.uk’s coverage of JavaOne in its entirety by now you’ll know that alongside news, there has also been show blogs (such as this one), video content, technical...

JavaOne from the inside

Blog In addition to my general reports and news on Sun’s JavaOne developer conference this week in San Francisco, I also have the chance to feature some comment from inside the technical sessions....

Wi-Fi operator launches automatic sign-on tool

News The Cloud hopes its mycloud software will be an 'umbrella for all Wi-Fi across Europe', using a single user profile for laptops, smartphones and portable entertainment kit

Video Chat on the Move!

Blog I've just had a fascinating and pleasing experience. I had a 15-minute video chat on ooVoo while riding on a bus through the Swiss countryside! First the summary - the quality was good, in fact...

Mobile tech gets cautious praise from aid groups

News Wireless technology has its benefits, but experts seek more evidence on the true costs of installing infrastructure in the developing world

India to create 8m outsourcing jobs in next decade

News Outsourcing association Nasscom sees the industry booming in smaller cities as the infrastructure of dominant centres becomes increasingly overburdened

Neil Young demos Java multimedia project

Video At JavaOne, veteran rocker Neil Young shows off a multimedia project, using Java and Blu-ray technology, spanning his music career

Mobile M2M connections set to rocket

News Berg Insight says the number of mobile network connections used for machine-to-machine comms will grow from 37.5m in 2007 to 186m in 2012

Sun demos JavaFX apps

Video At JavaOne, the company unveils two new JavaFX-powered apps: Photo Flocker and Movie Cloud

Could Novell kill OpenSolaris?

Blog Sun's just opened its developer conference with the long-delayed launch of OpenSolaris, the open source version of its Solaris operating system. But after all this time, will it live? It's...

Dialogue Box 3.9: JCB phone torture test

Video Dialogue Box deconstructs Sonim's JCB-branded phone, first in the studio and then by running it over with a truck

Auction site QXL going, going, gone

News Customers have been informed by email that the QXL.co.uk site will close down by the end of this month

WiMAX USA: $3.2 billon and counting...

Blog After much secret dealing and many, many rumours, potential alliances and posturing, WiMAX is finally getting going in the USA. The Wall Street Journal is saying that Sprint Nextel and Clearwire's...

Sun shows off JavaFX platform

Video At the JavaOne Conference, Sun demos the JavaFX application, a competitor to Adobe's AIR and Microsoft's Silverlight

Microsoft and Yahoo: The next step

Video CNET News.com's Dan Farber and Ina Fried discuss how a potential deal between the two companies fell apart and how they may now proceed

Sun previews JavaFX for rich web applications

News The company began its JavaOne conference by showcasing its new rich internet-application technology and its potential for developers

McAfee strikes Yahoo search deal

News The security company has struck a deal to flag up potentially unsafe website appearing in Yahoo search results

Microsoft resumes XP SP3, Vista SP1 updates

News The company is releasing XP SP3 for web downloads and resuming automatic updates to Vista SP1, following an earlier conflict with another Microsoft product

India mulls tax-break extension for outsourcers

News Contemplation of an extended tax break for in-country software companies shows India is worried about retaining its outsourcing dominance, say consulants

Vodafone lands multinational iPhone deal

News The company has struck a deal with Apple to sell the iPhone in 10 markets around the world

Photos: HTC Touch Diamond

Photo HTC's latest Touch device is the iPhone-like Diamond. See how this Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone shapes up here.

Microsoft platform tops Web 2.0 developer survey

News The company's Web 2.0 development platform has beaten offerings from Google and Facebook to lead in a users' choice survey that some believe is flawed

Adding flavour to the Java brew

Blog Although Sun clearly takes on the role of lead ‘barista’ at the Java coffee brewing pot, it would be hard not to notice the small army of partners, sponsors and industry ‘friends’ that comprise the...

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