Well, here it is: the official Java Development Kit (JDK) 7 release candidate. It’s the first new version of Java in five years, and the first since Oracle took over Sun. It feels like more of a stop-gap release while Oracle readies Java 8, but it’s still noteworthy. The first general release of Java...
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Developers complained — and Facebook listened. Late last month, Facebook enacted a new spam control system to cut down on the rampant spam on the company’s application platform. But the company quickly came under fire when the new controls apparently cut out a number of legitimate applications. Disgruntled developers quickly took to Facebook’s message...
Life has been something of a rollercoaster ride for Dropbox lately. In May, the consumer cloud-storage service was hit with an FTC complaint based on allegedly misleading contractual language about data security. Last month, a group of consumers filed a class-action lawsuit against Dropbox for how it handled a temporary security hole in the...
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Two weeks ago a number of Facebook developers logged into the site to horrible news: their applications had suddenly been disabled without warning. The culprit was Facebook’s spam-fighting bot, which automatically tracks the amount of negative feedback an application receives from users and blocks apps that are faring especially poorly (since they’re probably spammy)....
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Businesses can get almost anything they need “as a service” these days. Platform as a service (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS), mobility as a service (MaaS). A company called Black Locus out of Carnegie Mellon University has developed a service for automated pricing optimization and revenue management solutions for online retailrs. They are...
Researchers for the Chetan Sharma Consulting group have put together a 2011 State of the Global Mobile Industry mid-year assessment and have come up with some very interesting results. The entire global mobile market weighs in at about $1.3 trillion or close to 2% of the world’s gross domestic product. Of that giant $1.3...
There are few things that jump start one’s day as swiftly as a strong cup of coffee and a serving of news. But how do you find and enjoy the perfect cup of hand picked news? “The Internet has created a lot of content, which is why everyone today is talking about curation and...