Posts tagged Sun
A final tweet from Sun Microsystems chief executive
Feb 5th
Jonathan Schwartz let the world know about his resignation as the chief executive officer of Sun Microsystems via Twitter.
The New York Times said that Scwhartz was the first Fortune 200 CEO to tweet his resignation. Schwartz did so in a haiku as he exited Oracle, which finished its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun last week. [...]
Oracle kills Project Darkstar; adios to virtual worlds
Feb 5th
Oracle decided to pull the plug yesterday on Project Darkstar, a Sun Microsystems project aimed at creating the backend infrastructure for virtual worlds. It was the labor of love of Chris Mellisinos, the chief gaming officer at Sun who announced on his Facebook page that he was leaving Sun after 16 years.
One of the first [...]
Google Gears’ days may be numbered (via postie)
Dec 1st
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It looks like Google is scaling back its support for Gears, the browser extension it launched in 2007 to add capabilities to web applications such as offline access to web applications.
The company is being a little vague about its exact plans. The Los Angeles Times reported that Google is “letting the sun set [...]
Motorola’s “IRONMAN” Android handset says hello
Apr 30th
Wait, what? Motorola possibly doing a cross-marketing campaign with a blockbuster movie? We kid, we kid, but hey, we wouldn’t put it past them… We just got hit with some really interesting information — it’s about this Motorola smartphone either called or code-named ‘IRONMAN’. We’ve been told it will most likely run Android and be [...]
