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)

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