Java Posse #358 - Newscast for July 6th 2011

Newscast for July 6th 2011 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Programming Summer Camps: https://sites.google.com/site/programmingsummercamp/ Escalate Scala training in August: http://www.artima.com/shop/stairway_to_scala Java 7 released http://wikis.sun.com/display/ProjectCoin/Home http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/ http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/ http://blogs.oracle.com/theaquarium/entry/july_7th_java_7th_launch IBM has released WebSphere v8 with support for Java EE 6, including http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/1106_alcott/1106_alcott.html Quick News The schedule for the strangeloop conference in St. Louis, MO from Sept 18th to 20th has been published. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/javaposse/0Mr4bf9D50A A new trailer for the 2011 JavaZone conference is up, and it's great. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a4RNw8A5L8&feature=player_embedded JAX Innovation award winners - winners received $10000 http://jaxenter.com/jax-innovation-awards-2011-the-winners-are-36551.html Android Developer calls out Amazon's app-store as a disaster. http://bithack.se/news/apparatus-amazon-july-4-2011.html Half a million android devices are activated every day now and the number is growing 4.4% week over week. http://www.vision2mobile.com/news/2011/06/android-sales-plateau-as-iphone-surges.aspx http://gigaom.com/mobile/andy-rubin-android-activating-500000-devices-a-day/ The US Patent and Trademark Office may have dealt a killer blow to Oracle's lawsuit against Android. http://cloud.dzone.com/dose/daily-dose-uspto-strikes-major Random Crap OpenOffice.org has been accepted into the Apache incubator after a very high turnout for an ASF vote. http://www.grobmeier.de/openoffice-org-has-joined-the-apache-software-foundation-13062011.html Google+, sounds good, if you can get in http://cloud.dzone.com/dose/daily-dose-google-enters You can now buy the new Commodore 64 from commodoreusa.com http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx 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. (BMI), written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney. Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad. Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1) To contact us: Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse Pose a question on our Google Moderator group - http://tinyurl.com/q4javaposse Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465-4626 Or send us email - [email protected] The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall