Java Posse #311 - Newscast for June 11th 2010

Java Posse Episode 311 - Newscast for June 11th 2010 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Potentially interested in Scala training/consultancy? Please help us out by filling in the very short survey, and give us your email if you would like to know more (optional). http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFFlSm8xcXBRLUxORnhLSUk3aTZOT3c6MQ Apple WWDC keynote + Steve Jobs at D8 http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1006ad9g4hjk/event/index.html Closures, closures, closures http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/06/lambda-syntax-debate http://java.dzone.com/dose/dzone-daily-dose-513 Quick News Jazoon took place last week in Switzerland http://jazoon.com/ http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2010/06/05/javanet-week-review-june-5-2010 http://www.slideshare.net/fsearch/slideshow?q=jazoon BlueJ 3.0 (enhancements) http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/mik/2010/05/30/bluej-3-0-whats-new/ Google now has all of the sessions from Google IO available in video form for free. http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions.html The Silicon Valley Codecamp 2010 details. http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions.html Google's Chrome OS now has an announced launch window - late fall 2010. http://www.slashgear.com/google-chrome-os-confirmed-for-late-fall-2010-0287952/ Apple has released Java updates for Mac OS X mirroring the recent security bug fixes in Java 6 U20. http://www.geotauaisay.com/2010/05/update-java-for-mac-os-x/ The YourKit profiler, a popular commercial Java profiling tool, has reached version 9.0. http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=60171 ScalaWags The UK's national health service has just produced two new websites, both powered by Scala. http://www.scala-lang.org/node/6505 Scala IDE for Eclipse has moved to a new home at scala-ide.org. http://www.scala-ide.org/2010/05/on-the-move/ Android Sony is the latest manufacturer to promise an Android tablet. http://9to5mac.com/sony_the_anti_apple T-mobile has announced that all devices in the MyTouch series of handsets will receive an update to Android 2.2 - froyo http://www.androidguys.com/2010/06/08/mytouch-3g-series-phones-android-22/ More details are slowly emerging about Google TV and in particular the Logitech box that will be available in the fall. http://blog.logitech.com/2010/06/04/a-peek-under-the-hood-google-tv-and-logitech-harmony-link/ And Motorola are apparently going to create as many as 20 Android powered phones in 2010. http://www.slashgear.com/motorola-20-new-android-phones-in-2010-0788585/ Adobe has opened their AIR platform to Android devices. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air2/android/ https://prerelease.adobe.com/callout/default.html?callid={AEF64EB4-A977-4317-909A-14AD8014BA21} Dell have announced that the Streak, a 5 inch android phone/tablet crossover, will be launching next month for $500 on their website. http://www.androidguys.com/2010/06/02/dell-streak-launching-month-500-unlocked/ Archos have announced their first Android powered tablet, a 7 inch device. http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/ARCHOS-Brings-the-First-Large-Screen-Android-Based-Tablet-Under-200-1160192.htm Google maps navigation for Android devices is now available for Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland. http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/06/fun-on-autobahn-google-maps-navigation.html T-mobile now offers the first Garminfone based on Android. http://www.t-mobile.com/templates/generic.aspx?passet=pro_pro_garminfone&WT.ac=0346HOM04 NPR (National Public Radio for those outside the US) has open sourced the NPR client application for Android, and are actively looking for developers to help with it. http://www.npr.org/blogs/inside/2010/06/02/127366098/npr-android-and-you http://www.npr.org/blogs/inside/2009/12/the_npr_android_app_a_bazaar_b.html We mentioned this story briefly in episode 309 but now have more details. Palm has lost their lead webOS designer to Google, where he will be working on Android. http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/05/27/palm-loses-their-lead-webos-designer-to-the-google-android-team-others-may-follow/ Qualcomm has announced new dual-core 1.2 GHz snapdragon CPUs to be available before the end of the year. http://www.androidguys.com/2010/06/01/dualcore-snapdragon-chips-run-android-12ghz/ Intel has announced a new Atom based processor platform with speeds up to 1.5GHz for phone and up to 1.9GHz for tablets. http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/2010/20100504comp.htm T-Mobile, all phones "free" on June 19th (father's day?) http://www.tmonews.com/2010/06/june-19th-the-mother-of-all-fathers-day-sales/ Thanks Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect Kirsty Doherty, Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork Theme Music: Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. 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