GNOME 3.0 release delayed by six months

 


A major revision of the GNOME desktop environment, planned for release as version 3.0 in September, has been put off to March next year.

The decision was taken at the GNOME Users and Developers' European Conference which is underway in The Hague, Netherlands, this week.
In a media release, the GNOME desktop project said the release team had met on Monday and, after discussing the progress of the release, decided to put it off by six months Read More.

Google’s Android outsells iPhone, threatens BlackBerry

Prepared by the NPD Group, though the Canadian icon BlackBerry continues to maintain its lead in the US smart phone market, handsets with Google’s Android operating system may upset it soon, says a report released Monday.

In fact, the devices with the Google operating system have left Apple’s iPhone behind in the first quarterly sales, says the report. Read more….

 

Java co-creator James Gosling leaves Oracle

Java co-creator James Gosling is saying good-bye to Oracle just a few months after the company acquired his longtime employer, Sun Microsystems.

Gosling made the announcement on his blog, saying he resigned from the company on April Gosling didn't give any reason for his departure. Instead, he wrote, "Just about anything I could say that would be accurate and honest would do more harm than good." As for what he'll do next, Gosling said he doesn't know--just that he'll take some time off before starting his job search. Read More….

TIOBE Programming Community Index for April 2010

After more than 4 years C is back at position number 1 in the TIOBE index. The scores for C have been pretty constant through the years, varying between the 15% and 20% market share for almost 10 years. So the main reason for C's number 1 position is not C's uprise, but the decline of its competitor Java. Java has a long-term downward trend. It is losing ground to other languages running on the JVM. An example of such a language is JavaFX script that is now approaching the top 20. Read More…