Android 2.2 (Froyo) provides developers with some much-anticipated features for a minor SDK release. Here are the top ten features developers cannot wait to get their hands on.
<b>Enterprise Mobile Today:</b> "Handsets powered by Google's Android are becoming increasingly popular, but the open source smartphone platform is facing a threat that could cause it to self-destruct."
<b>Softpedia:</b> "Yesterday night, May 19th, Françs Dupoux announced version 1.5.4 of the SystemRescueCd Linux-based operating system. The new SystemRescueCd 1.5.4 includes the alternative Linux kernel 2.6.33.04 (includes altker32 and altker64), and the standard 2.6.32.13 Linux kernel."
<b>Linux Magazine:</b> "Metadata performance is perhaps the most neglected facet of storage performance. In previous articles we’ve looked into how best to improve metadata performance without too much luck. Could that be a function of the benchmark? Hmmm..."
<b>LWN.net:</b> "Trademarks and free software can make a volatile mix. It is understandable that a project would want to ensure that code shipping under its name is "the real McCoy", but modifying the source and distributing the result is a hallmark of free software."
<b>LinuxDevices:</b> "Kontron is readying an Intel Atom Z530-based box computer designed for rugged railway applications. The MicroSpace MPCX28R Railway Box PC is protected for railway use with EN50155 certification, TX compliance, extended temperature support, 1.5kV isolated power, and M12 connectors for Fast Ethernet, USB, and power..."
A doctor at the University of Louisville Hospital set up an internal Web site and data base to track and monitor kidney dialysis patients. The problem is the site wasn't password protected.
<b>MakeTechEasier:</b> "KDE has an advanced clipboard system, largely due to a small program called Klipper, which can store more than one piece of data. KDE also has the ability to copy and move files with copying and pasting, and automatic creation of files using clipboard data."
Oracle's ADRCI extended commands provide valuable scripting and file viewing options, with about two dozen commands that you can use to look at and manage diagnostic information.. ADR is the future of Oracle diagnostics and it's essential that database administrators understand it.
<b>Linux Devices:</b> "The displays work in both color and monochrome e-paper modes, and are said to require less than half the power of an ordinary display."
OS Roundup: Will the open source server OS from what was once Sun Microsystems soon be known as the project formerly known as OpenSolaris? It's beginning to seem like it.
<b>Datamation: </b>"Two and a half years after the KDE 4 series of releases began, many users are still using KDE 3. A preference for the familiar seems to motivate some; while others seem influenced by the rumors that began with the botched 4.0 release."
<b>eSecurity Planet: </b>"AT&T has 'turned off the feature' that made it possible for an independent security watchdog group to easily penetrate the telco's data networks to access the e-mail addresses of more than 114,000 Apple iPad 3G owners."
<b>Tech Drive-in: </b>"It goes something like this 'Installing Google Chrome will add the Google repository so your system will automatically keep Google Chrome up to date'."
<b>PACKT Publishing: </b>"MySQL Replication has been supported in MySQL for a very long time and is an extremely flexible and powerful technology. Depending on the configuration, you can replicate all databases, selected databases, or even selected tables within a database."
<b>WMD Zone:</b> "Novell have previously tried to leverage that market but did it all wrong. They didn’t understand that there is just one killer feature ... that needs to be in there which is Exchange support."