Jetpack - Exploring new ways to extend and personalize the Web
Jetpack is a newly formed experiment in using open Web technologies to enhance the browser, with the goal of allowing anyone who can build a Web site to participate in making the Web a better place to work, communicate and play.
In short, Jetpack is an API for allowing you to write Firefox add-ons using the [...]
New 15-inch MacBook Pro revealed
At Apple’s WWDC in San Francisco, Apple’s vice president of product marketing, Philip Schiller, shows off the company’s latest MacBook Pro. The new notebook has a 3.06GHz processor, a unibody architecture, and a built-in lithium polymer battery. Schiller adds that customers shouldn’t need to change battery in a notebook at all in five years.
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Microsoft’s commitment to interoperability
Interoperability to be engineered at the core
At JavaOne in San Francisco, Microsoft’s Dan’l Lewin declares interoperability a fundamental responsibility given the company’s position in the industry. Based on today’s mixed computing environments, Lewin says, “there is an inevitable requirement for interoperability and choice.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2422-19178_22-309010.html
Googe App Engine - Run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure
App Engine is unveiling its second language: Java. This release includes an early look at our Java runtime, integration with Google Web Toolkit, and a Google Plugin for Eclipse, giving you an end-to-end Java solution for AJAX web applications. Google support for the Java language is still under development and we’re eager to get your [...]
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