Gosling lauded by Canada
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James Gosling, a Sun Microsystems vice president and Sun Fellow who is considered the founder of Java, has been named an officer of the Order of Canada, the company said.
A Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News report (CBC) said the Order of Canada designation recognizes lifetime achievements by Canadians from all walks of life. Gosling was named by the office of the Governor General.
Sun speeds networking for multi-core chips
Filed under: Networking
As the microprocessor industry has shifted focus away from raw megahertz in favor of multiple cores and symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), developers and IT managers have struggled to adapt to the new computing paradigm. Adding more cores is all well and good, but until the other components of the IT environment directly support multithreading, some of the touted performance gains remain largely hypothetical.
Krugle adds Microsoft code
Filed under: Application Development
Krugle, which provides a code search engine for developers, will announce on Tuesday the addition of more than 6.5 million lines of code from Microsoft’s shared and open source initiatives to the Krugle index.
By adding this code, Krugle users will be able to browse and share code from more than 500 projects hosted on the Microsoft CodePlex site.
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Woodstock project set for Web apps
Filed under: Application Development
Sun Microsystems announced on Friday the creation of an open source project providing JavaServer Faces components for Web developers to build enterprise applications.
Components featured as part of Project Woodstock contain design time code to enable their use in the NetBeans Web Pack 5.5. which provides visual Web development in the NetBeans
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DuPont employee steals $400m in trade secrets
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You can file this one away in the “Worst Case Scenarios” folder.
Federal authorities are charging a former research chemist at DuPont with absconding with an estimated $400 million in trade secrets from the company.
According to this report,at Delaware Online, Gary Min, 43, plead guilty today to stealing trade secrets in November and
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BEA stock option audit detailed
Filed under: Business
High-ranking BEA Systems executives will be repaying gains received from stocks, after an audit of the company’s stock option grant practices found a multitude of issues.
The company in August 2006 announced that its board of directors had asked its audit committee to review BEA’s stock option practices; BEA is one of many companies entangled in the issue of back-dating of stock options, with Apple Computer being another.
Yahoo gets code-searching
Filed under: Application Development
Krugle has begun providing code-searching for the Yahoo Developer Network.
The network stores APIs and Web services for Yahoo Web properties such as Flickr, del.icio.us and Yahoo Maps, Krugle said on Wednesday. Through its deal with Krugle, Yahoo’s network can leverage the Krugle search engine and interface enabling developers working with Yahoo
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Building Security…Not!
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As promised, InfoWorld has posted a demonstration of the RFID card clone device from IOActive that allows anyone to passively read, store and clone HID-brand access cards. As TechWatch blogged on Monday, IOActive had this device on display at the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week. The video, available here, shows Chris Paget, IOActive’s director of R&D showing
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Zune needs women (and men)
Filed under: Gadgets
It’s hiring time over at Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division (E&D), which has a pile of job openings in its Zune division. According to the Microsoft Web site, there are 34 openings for Zune, almost all posted since the beginning of January. Among the positions Microsoft is looking to fill:
Program Manager (“Seeking a talented and highly motivated program
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BlackBerry 8800 to restore RIM thunder?
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RIM introduced on Monday the successor to its popular 8700 line, the trendy, but still business-minded 8800.
Our sister publication, Macworld, writes of the new phone:
The 8800 will debut later this month in North America through AT&T, the same carrier that will carry Apple’s iPhone
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