A brainchild of Sun Microsystems’ research wing, the Small Programmable Object Technology (Sun SPOT) platform code is now open to Java developers at large.
Sun SPOTs are palm-sized battery powered devices that can wirelessly relay data about movement, temperature and sound. They run on a virtual machine written almost entirely in Java called Squawk, and crank [...]
IBM thinks it can slice the hell out of a server. In fact, it looks to use virtualization as a major weapon against Unix rivals Sun Microsystems and HP and against x86 vendors. Don’t believe us? Then witness the PowerVM branding exercise.
IBM unfurled the PowerVM moniker in front of journalists today, as it announced new [...]
Yahoo! president Sue Decker believes her company is “moving from catch-up mode to a mode of true differentiation.” But its fourth quarter profits were down 23 per cent, and it will soon axe seven per cent of its work force.
This afternoon, during a conference call for the benefit of industry analysts and reporters, Decker and [...]
Posted by: Martin Streicher (martin.streicher@gmail.com), Editor in Chief, McClatchy Interactive
Discover how to combine an enterprise-worthy search engine — Apache Software Foundation’s Solr — with your PHP application.
In “Build a custom search engine with PHP,” I combined PHP and the open source Sphinx search engine to create a blazing-fast alternative to text-intensive database queries, such as [...]
The news that Facebook has opened its API to allow third-party widgets will have non-technical readers scratching their heads.
What is an API, you will probably wonder? What’s a third-party widget? Indeed, perhaps Facebook itself is still a mystery to you.
Set up in 2004 as an online answer to the yearbooks popular in American schools and [...]
