Java Posse #350 - Newscast for May 6th 2011

Newscast for May 6th 2011 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com JavaOne 2011 has been announced http://www.oracle.com/javaone/index.html http://blogs.sun.com/javaspotlight/entry/java_spotlight_episode_27_sharat http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/javaone_2011_san_francisco_october http://java.dzone.com/polls/poll-vote-your-favorite-java NetBeans 7.0 released http://netbeans.org/community/releases/70/ http://blogs.sun.com/javaspotlight/entry/java_spotlight_episode_26_john Attachmate, new owners of Novell, have laid off US developers formerly assigned to the Mono project http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2011/05/attachmate-lays-off-mono-emplo.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/03/novell_mono_layoffs/ Hudson -> Eclipse project http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/05/eclipse-hudson Quick News *Sponsor* - Contant Contact is seeking several skilled Java engineers for positions in Boston and San Francisco. http://www.constantcontact.com/about-constant-contact/careers/index.jsp?src=javaposse Argentina has a new Java User group. http://www.jugargentina.org/ Google has announced the projects for the Google summer of code. http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2011 The EJB 3.2 project has been green-lighted by the JCP. http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/ejb_3_2_can_start Android Apple sues Samsung and Samsung hits back. http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/apple-sues-samsung-over-galaxy-phones-tablets/ http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/samsung-brings-legal-battle-with-apple-to-u.s/ http://smallstrokes.blogspot.com/2011/04/did-apple-copy-samsung.html http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/04/18/2053241/Apple-Sues-Samsung-Over-Galaxy-Phones-and-Tablets http://www.techi.com/2011/04/all-out-patent-war-between-apple-and-samsung-brewing/ Nexus S gets the Android 2.3.4 update, with video chat built in to Google Talk. http://www.androidguys.com/2011/04/28/video-chat-coming-nexus-android-234-update/ http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/04/video-chat-on-your-android-phone.html http://vtokapp.com/ http://twitter.com/#!/googlenexus/status/63707554831806464 According to a report by Distimo, the android market is growing faster in number of apps than Apple's app store. http://www.androidguys.com/2011/04/28/android-market-eclipse-app-store-summer/ http://www.androidguys.com/2011/04/15/android-market-billion-served/ Nielsen reports that Android has grabbed the US smartphone lead. http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/nielsen-android-grabs-u.s.-smartphone-lead/ B&N Nook Color gets update, including email and flash, plus its own application store. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/nookcolor-whats-new/379002753 Intel CEO Paul Otellini confirmed that Intel is working to bring Honeycomb (Android 3.0) to devices with x86 chip sets. http://liliputing.com/2011/04/intel-confirms-that-android-3-0-is-coming-to-x86-tablets.html http://www.androidguys.com/2011/04/15/intel-set-android-q3-2011 ScalaWags Scala 2.9 RC 3 is out. http://www.scala-lang.org/node/9385 http://www.scala-ide.org/2011/04/scala-ide-beta-2-available/ http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2011/05/04/parallel-arrays-scala ScalaDays 2011. http://days2011.scala-lang.org/ Adventures in Ruby The first community supported release of the Ruby Tools plugin for NetBeans is now out. http://netbeans.dzone.com/news/ruby-tools-tom-enebo Random Crap Google's bid of $900m on the Nortel patents portfolio has been approved. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/02/2015217/Court-Approves-Googles-Bid-For-Nortels-IP Hazeover: ADD helper for the Mac. 99c from the Mac app store. http://lifehacker.com/#!5795308/hazeover-fades-inactive-windows-so-you-can-focus-on-the-task-at-hand A Jury in East Texas has found Google guilty of patent infringement for using Linux, to the tune of $5m. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/042111-google-linux-patent-infringement.html Virgin media demos a 1.5Gbps internet connection in London, UK. http://www.itproportal.com/2011/04/20/virgin-media-demos-worlds-fastest-internet-service/ Oracle handing back OpenOffice.org to the community. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Oracle-OpenOffice-org-to-become-a-Community-based-Project-Update-1228831.html And, a project at Tel Aviv university and funded by Google, aims to teach computers to regret poor decisions and make better ones next time. http://mashable.com/2011/04/14/google-computers-regret/ Listener Feedback ScalaWags and London Scala Lift Off http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/scala-exchange-2011 http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/scala-lift-off-london-2011 Silicon Valley Code Camp http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Register.aspx Atlassian CodeGeist Competition http://codegeist.atlassian.com/ Zero Turnaround - 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