So, that’s it, JavaOne is fnished for me. It has been quite dense, with many sessions and a few interesting discussions. It leaves me with mixed feelings, though. On the good side, Oracle has shown some commitment to a Java roadmap, and this enormous conference has proven that Oracle plays at a different level; this […]
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Live from JavaOne: Technical General Session
This general session concentrated major news about JDK (desktop?), Java EE, and Java for Mobile and Embedded. Mark Reinhold basically explained the roadmap for JDK releases, which will follow Plan B. This means that there will be a release in 2011 with the features that are ready, and another release in 2012 with the features […]
Mobile applications may be dangerous
That’s a question that I have been asking myself for quite a while. How dangerous can a mobile application be? How can it be made more dangerous? Or less dangerous? Here’s a grabbag from Internet today. First, the good side, with two Microsoft articles pointed by Bruce Schneier: The first one is about the authorization […]
Smart card security on the radio
Smart card security doesn’t often get on traditional media, so we can all (at least, the French-spaking ones) be happy that France Culture will spend an hour discussing the security of payment cards, trying to provide an answer to the question “Comment améliorer la sécurité des cartes bancaires?“. Among the speakers, we will have Jean-Louis […]
Live from Cardis 2010: Where is our smart card AppStore?
UPDATED: Added slideshare link. Here is a transcript of my invited presentation at Cardis2010, or at least the things that I thought about before getting there. The slides are available on SlideShare.
Live from Cardis 2010: Bertrand is back
I am just sitting in the room where Bertrand Ducastel is starting his speech about The Emotion of Identity, of course starting with a 2500-year old Texan religious painting. Now, let’s go for the (live) meat. With cloud computing, it is hard to figure out where my computer is in the world, mostly for fiscal/manpower […]
Why do we need personal servers? Facebook.
I just read a very impressive speech by Eben Moglen. Here is an excerpt that is music to the ears of people supporting personal Web servers: What do we need? We need a really good webserver you can put in your pocket and plug in any place. In other words, it shouldn’t be any larger […]
Android fragmentation
Things are starting to get ugly on the Android fragmentation front. Worse yet, I just got hit by the problem with my good ol’ Touch (about one year old, i.e., an antique by Android standards). A good friend just pointed to stickybits, a promising service (at least if you are not in the NFC industry) […]
Hadopi, Google, and a few illegal things
We European have strange laws. The French Hadopi law is a law that is intended to protect copyright owners against big bad teenage copiers. That law has been voted, and it is in the process of being enacted. Of course, it won’t work; such laws just don’t work. ReadWriteWeb has published an article about Hadopi […]
Here and Now !
Ajit Jaokar has published a post on Mobile Cloud Computing, in which he asks some questions about mobile computing. I found his questions very interesting, so here are my answers (I kept them short, but I will try to develop some things later): a) Is ‘mobile cloud computing’ a distinct domain in itself? Or is […]