Rubinius Ruby language variant gets an upgrade
Rubinius, an implementation of the Ruby programming language featuring enhancements for JIT (Just In Time) compilation and garbage collection, is being upgraded Friday, gaining improvements in debugging, memory usage, and performance.
Version 1.1 of Rubinius was released by Rubinius developers and is accessible at the Rubinius Web page. Rubinius is an open source project.
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No tethering for Windows Phone 7
Forthcoming Windows Phone 7 devices are expected to have most of the required features of today's smartphones -- an application store, a 5-megapixel or better camera, a touchscreen, gaming -- but there's one it won't have, and that's tethering.
This week, phone enthusiasts were abuzz with news that the phones would allow tethering depending on the operator, based on comments that Brandon Watson, director of developer experience for Windows Phone 7, made during a podcast.
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Weak server chip shipments on the horizon, analysts say
The server market is showing signs of weakening, which could lead to a downturn in server chip shipments, further affecting the revenue of chip makers already hampered by lackluster demand for home PCs, financial analysts said Friday.
"Near term, we believe weak PC trends and server-related customer consolidation could lead to weak server orders because of uncertainty in current server suppliers' existing and future product road maps," said Apurva Patel, a financial analyst at Ticonderoga Securities, in a research note sent on Friday morning.
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Virtual machines need defragging too
Weighing in on a seemingly perennial question asked by system administrators, IT analysts Osterman Research is recommending that virtual machines be defragmented just as often as physical drives.
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Facebook outage caused by database glitch
Facebook went offline for the second time in two days yesterday. The Thursday outage -- which lasted more than two hours for some users -- is a tale of a database control gone awry and illustrates the need for effective testing and change control procedures.
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Microsoft: IE9 to require Windows 7 SP1
Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) browser will require Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1), a not-yet-released major update to the operating system, the company said today.
According to a FAQ posted on the company's site, Windows 7 users will need to install SP1 prior to adding IE9. People running Windows Vista must have that operating system's SP2 in place.
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Cloud vendors seek better legal protections for online data
WASHINGTON -- Executives from top cloud vendors Microsoft, Google, Amazon.com, Salesforce.com and Rackspace Thursday urged a congressional committee to support their goal of giving data stored in cloud computing systems the same legal protections as information stored on one's personal computer.
The lack of such protections today is a particularly important issue for enterprise customers, and is deterring some from using cloud services, the executives said.
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IBM warns of challenge to U.S. supercomputing leadership
WASHINGTON -- To make a point about China's interest in supercomputing, David Turek, IBM's vice president of deep computing, put a slide on the screen showing a large construction site for a building that will house one massive computer.
"That's a truck -- that's a big truck, that's a big hole, and that's going to be a big building," said Turek, pointing to the photo of a supercomputing center being built in Shenzhen, China for an audience at a Washington D.C. forum. "And that's only the first building they are going to build there."
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FBI investigating 'Here you have' worm
The FBI has launched an investigation into the "Here you have" worm, which disrupted corporate email systems in the U.S. two weeks ago.
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JavaOne debate: Java EE vs. Spring
The enterprise variant of Java faced off against the Spring Framework this week in a debate over which one developers should use for Java application development.
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Visual Basic developers get access to Windows Phone 7
Microsoft on Thursday began offering tools enabling Visual Basic developers to build applications for the Windows Phone 7 mobile phone platform.
Developers can download Microsoft Visual Basic CTP (Community Technology Preview) for Windows Phone Developer Tools at Microsoft's website, said S. Somasegar, senior vice president of the Microsoft Developer Division, in a blog post. He called the CTP "a great milestone."
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Oracle's new support czar has big challenges
Oracle has tapped longtime executive Charles Rozwat to head up oversight of its support organization, a job that now takes on added complexity due to the hardware products gained by the company's purchase of Sun Microsystems.
Rozwat, who was not available for comment Thursday, will report to Oracle co-President Mark Hurd. He used to be executive vice president of product development at Oracle, but that role switched over to Thomas Kurian after Rozwat took a leave of absence last year to attend a graduate program at Harvard.
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