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HTC America Drops Ball on Mobile Security
Manufacturer HTC America affirmatively acknowledged Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that millions of its customers’ Android based mobile devices were using software with potentially serious security vulnerabilities. The leading mobile device making company was ordered to make a patch available before the end of March 2013 to all concerned parties.
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Latest News from Microsoft and Amazon Regarding Android
Microsoft Azure now has an Android SDK including notification push to Android devices. Amazon makes available a Mobile Ads API that can be used to display adds from their network on any Android device in parallel with those from Google AdMob.
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Concurrent Releases Lingual, a SQL DSL for Hadoop
Concurrent, Inc., the enterprise Big Data application platform company, today announced Lingual, an open source project enabling fast and simple Big Data application development on Apache Hadoop using SQL.
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Greenplum Pivotal HD Combines the Strengths of SQL and Hadoop
EMC Greenplum has announced Pivotal HD, a new Hadoop distribution including a fully compliant SQL MPP database running on HDFS and being “hundreds of times faster than Hive”.
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Using the Domain Driven Design Bounded Context Concept to Shrink a Large Domain Model
Bounded Context concept from Domain Driven Design (DDD) can be used to divide a large model into smaller models using the Database Context (DbContext class) in Entity Framework (EF). Bounded Context creates smaller, more cohesive models with boundaries between models.
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Competition between Real-time Hadoop Implementations Heats Up
Hortonworks’ new Stinger initiative joins Apache Drill and Cloudera Impala in competition for the best real-time Hadoop implementation.
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Latest News on webOS, Tizen, Bada and Firefox OS
LG buys webOS. Samsung kills Bada and strengthens Tizen. Firefox OS attracts more carriers and first devices seen at MWC 2013.
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Experience Based Principles for Succeeding at SOA
After many years of working in the SOA field, Jean-Jacques Dubray has written down what he believes are four principles for helping to achieve successful SOA.
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Microsoft’s Cloud Guidance Addresses SQL Server
Microsoft's guidance on how to deploy a SQL solution in Azure addresses many concerns such as service level agreements, maintenance, and scalability. Additionally, a framework is offered which helps developers make this decision based upon their solution's specific needs.
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Agile Adoption in the Public Sector: FBI and Port of Rotterdam
There is a need for the public sector to adopt agile software development methods. Two case studies which show how agile has been used for the FBI, and at the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
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Petition to Unbundle Ask Bar from Java
Oracle's practice of bundling the Ask Toolbar into the Java installer has resulted in a petition and some heated responses.
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Google App Engine Adds Support for Java 7
Google App Engine introduces experimental support for Java 7, Cloud Endpoints, and Cloud Messaging Service for Android.
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CAST: Adding Spring Lowers the Quality of JEE Applications
A CAST report discloses that JEE enterprise software has lower quality when using Spring or Struts than using just Hibernate. Also, the quality degrades when Java is mixed with C or C++.
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MyGet is Offering Free Build Services for CodePlex, GitHub, and BitBucket
Developers with MyGet accounts can now take advantage of a free public beta of MyGet Build Services. This service allows developers using services such as CodePlex, GitHub, or BitBucket to use MyGet as an automated build server.
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Java Time API Now In Java 8
ThreeTen, the reference implementation of JSR 310 Date and Time API, is now included in JDK 8 build 75. The Java Time API for JDK 8 is under the package java.time, moving away from the javax.time package of earlier implementations. All the Java Time classes are immutable and thread-safe, based on the ISO 8601 calendar system, the de facto world calendar following the proleptic Gregorian rules.