Electronista spotted a Web page advertising the BlackBerry Developer Conference, scheduled for the week of October 20 in Santa Clara, Calif. The two-and-a-half day conference will feature the usual keynote speeches and technical sessions, but RIM doesn’t seem to have settled on an agenda just yet.
Smartphone application development appears to be the next frontier [...]

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No word yet on when Digg is going to make this live on its story pages.
A Flickr photo shows the new toolbar in action. From it you can see that clicked stories gets both a special Digg-flavored short permalink (like TinyURL provides) along with a new menu bar that appears on the [...]

For example, Java developers could decide to use the richer user interface technology found in Flash Lite, said Ulf Wretling, general manager, head of developer program and communications for Sony Ericsson. Or maybe a developer wants to use Java’s three-dimensional graphics for a mobile game but would prefer to use Flash Lite for menus, [...]

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Radiohead’s first album contains the song, “Anyone can play guitar.” Perhaps their next album should include “Anyone can hack the Linux kernel.”
It’s more of a cultural and process guide than anything else, but that’s often where companies stumble in trying to navigate Linux kernel development. According to the guide, which was posted less than two [...]

Better late than never, as the saying goes.

On Saturday, O’Reilly Media’s Tim O’Reilly put up a blog entry with a series of answers from Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz that were in response to Twittered questions from the audience at their Friday morning keynote address at the Web 2.0 Expo.

This is a nice resolution to [...]

“Basically what the hackers and phone phreakers of the past were doing, everybody is doing today,” he said in an interview on Thursday. “This is the price of success; we have these fads of everybody jumping into technologies and playing with things, (but) it’s also gotten more commercial.”
The badges also have RFID chips [...]

At the conference, Kirk and RayScale scientists discussed “GPU ray tracing.” It’s not clear how soon this technology would be used commercially by Nvidia.
Intel though has provided little proof beyond the running of some aspects of Quake IV (a relatively old game), for example, on an eight-core system.
RayScale, which provides interactive ray tracing [...]

The new application will be available for download from Verizon’s “Get It Now” store in early 2009. Initially the application will only work for Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., and Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. The companies will add support for other Disney resorts later.

On Wednesday, Disney will announce it has entered into an [...]