Category: Web Services

Via Hack the Planet, IPv6 autodiscovery is a good thing.

JSurfer:

Web Services Tool Kit for Mobile Devices provides tools and run-time environments that allow development of applications that use Web Services on small mobile devices. This tool kit’s JavaTM Web service run-time environment is supported on PoctketPC, Palm, and BlackBerry. The C Web service run-time environment is supported on the Palm and Symbian. What’s new in Version 2.0: Preview implementation of the JSR 172 Version 0.7 specification; C-based Web services now supported on Palm OS 5.0 and Symbian OS 6.0, 6.1; Java-based Web services now run on Palm OS 3.5.

Remember, there are also libraries available in J2ME for SOAP, XML-RPC, UDDI, XML parsing and more at Enhydra.org.

Warner Vogels is giving up on his Sidekick.

Read his entry to find out why.

Doug Kaye’s glossary is really excellent.  Here’s a new entry on runtime:

The moment of live operation. Runtime is the point when a software program springs into action to perform a task.

Follow the link for more.

I recently signed up with T-Mobile when I purchased my 3650.  I signed up for the $9.99/mo 10MB GPRS plan, but today I stopped by their website today and noticed that they had changed every mention of 10MB to Unlimited!

Further details can be found on their T-Zones website.

I am one happy camper.

WiFi Networking News points to Tom’s Need-To-Know: Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA).

WPA is designed to work in Enterprise situations with RADIUS and other authentication systems, as well as a simpler SOHO/home use system.

Anything is better than WEP.

In other news, Nike purchased Converse today:

NIKE, Inc. announced today it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Converse, Inc., the globally recognized footwear brand with nearly a century of sports heritage. The total price to be paid for 100 percent of the equity shares is approximately $305 million plus the assumption of certain working capital liabilities at the time of the transaction’s consummation.

I’m sure they’re making the rounds, but Scoble pointed out a really amusing video: table tennis, Matrix-style [windows media].  Here’s another version for those that don’t have the Windows Media option.

The Register:

Farewell, Duron. Hello, Athlon FX.

That’s the name AMD will adopt for its future low-end processors, if unnamed sources cited by DigiTimes are anything to go by.

The Athlon FX will be based on the Thorton core, essentially a version of the top-end Athlon XP’s Barton core with half the cache: 256KB instead of 512KB.

Somebody in marketing finally realized how stupid Duron sounded.  Tech geeks have known that since day 1.  Move along.

Information Week:

IBM has developed a programming language for building software that automatically enforces privacy rules. The vendor, which unveiled the new Enterprise Privacy Authorization Language (EPAL) on Wednesday at the Catalyst Conference in San Francisco, says the language is more sophisticated than current privacy technology, including the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) specifications.

Another item for acronym soup.  I hope that it helps and doesn’t just add another layer of complexity.

BBC News states the obvious:

Music fans who download songs from the internet go on to buy more albums, a survey has suggested.

El Reg:

VIA launched itself against Intel’s Centrino mobile platform today when it unveiled Antaur, a mobile version of its C3 desktop processor.

We say ‘mobile version’ but we’re really just talking about little more than a rebranded C3. The C3, particularly in its latest incarnations, based on the Nehemiah core, has been targeted at low-power applications, and VIA has often touted its strengths in fanless, zero-noise systems.

I have a C3 533MHz board sitting next to me running Red Hat 8.0.  The C3 seems to be great for running stuff like word processing, browsing, SSH terminals and the sort.  It does tend to choke on more processor-intensive tasks.  The first time I noticed this was when decoding a speex file.  It brought the system to a halt and produced a couple of unusable files.

I wouldn’t try to do realtime audio or video on the 533MHz C3, but for day to day stuff, it’s fine.

I read the following article over Honey Nut Cheerios this morning:

Sean Gorman’s professor called his dissertation “tedious and unimportant.” Gorman didn’t talk about it when he went on dates because “it was so boring they’d start staring up at the ceiling.” But since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Gorman’s work has become so compelling that companies want to seize it, government officials want to suppress it, and al Qaeda operatives — if they could get their hands on it — would find a terrorist treasure map.

There’s not any content of note yet, but things are happening at bloggingtogether.com.

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John Robb:

Heads up:  I do not work at UserLand anymore.

I spent most of the weekend offline, and here is a roundup of links from the 4th to the 6th:

• IDG Interviews Tim O’Reilly.
• The Mono Project releases a coverage analysis tool.
• RFC 3549: Linux Netlink as an IP Services Protocol.
• Squishdot has implemented server side trackbacks and links to tblib for the client side.  Cool!
• Buzzmachine: AOL blogs!  You’ve got to find the tiny ‘no thanks’ button in order to view them though…
• Ray Ozzie: Extreme mobility.
• Robin: a remote desktop using XUL.
• Wil Wheaton: Truckin’.
• Kilic rally photoblog.
• Erik Hatcher is eating his own dogfood and making his blogging activities blogscene-powered.  Check out his new site and his new feed.  Subscribed.
• Leo Laporte reflects on the original ZDTV hosts.
• John Burkhardt considers a new laptop: “Small, cheap, fast. Pick two.” I don’t think he can go wrong if he chooses anything from that list.  I played with a Sharp Aticus in the store and it’s amazing.  It’s a lot of money for a 1GHz laptop, but it’s tiny.

I don’t usually post press releases, but this one is pretty cool:

PORTLAND, ORE. – (July 7, 2003) – Two open source companies, Pogo Linux Inc., a Linux hardware vendor, and MySQL AB, developer of the world’s most popular open source database, announced today a partnership to build the first MySQL® database appliance, a pre-configured, fully-integrated hardware/software offering optimized for speed and value. The jointly developed database appliance, the DataWare 2600 Server, will be a turnkey solution that leverages the cost savings, reliability and performance of MySQL’s leading open source database. Both companies are previewing the system at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) on July 9-10, in Portland, Oregon.

Hopefully some OSCON bloggers will be able to check this out and report back.  Of course, it wouldn’t take too much to convert commodity hardware into a database appliance using free software, but I’m sure that this administration interface and the ‘just works’ nature of it will be worth the money.

MacSlash points to some leaked screenshots of Photoshop 8 for the Mac.  The filter gallery looks pretty cool, and the keyword feature looks interesting.  I wonder how similar the PC version will be.

CNet:

“I’m planning on starting the so-called ‘pre-2.6’ series in early July, and that is kind of a beta series,” Torvalds said Wednesday in an interview. He and Andrew Morton, the programmer who will maintain the 2.6 version, “are talking about starting a pre-2.6 series next week,” Torvalds said.