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  IN THIS ISSUE

» Search Inside the Music

» Sun's Revolutionary New File System

» The Future of Massive Multiplayer Games


TECHIE TALK

» Meet Sun Labs Innovators
Get inspired by the vision and zeal of 15 top Sun Labs innovators

  » Do You Feel SOL on SOA?
A crash course on service-oriented architectures for developers

  » Tripping Back to Brown
Brown University Math-Computer Science grad and Sun engineer Adam Leventhal returns to his alma mater to show off OpenSolaris

INTERNET GAMING

» The Future of Massive Multiplayer Games
In part two of a conversation with Sun's Chief Gaming Officer, Chris Melissinos, he discusses the latest advances in Java technology-based game-centric technologies

  » Sun Labs Research Benefits Gamers
Project Darkstar, for video game serving, is one example of how R&D delivers practical innovation



July 2006

Search Inside the Music

Search Inside the Music So much music, so little time. A research project at Sun Labs promises to bring music selection to the next level by searching acoustic content and context. That means you can find whatever rocks your world based on lyrics, rhythm, tempo, instrumentation and other characteristics far beyond the reach of today’s relatively crude music search tools. Full article...

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  OPEN MINDS
  » Women Begin to Crack Tech's Glass Ceiling
While still underrepresented, more women each year are staking their claim on a high tech career, according to a report in eWEEK
    » StarOffice Is Standout Winner
No surprise: Lauding its features, extensibility, and compatibility, eWEEK named StarOffice 8 the best productivity application of 2006
    » Earthshaking News at Stanford
A $3 million donation from Sun gets the ground moving for Stanford's new Earth Science Research Center


    CODER'S TOOLBOX
  » Java Platform Standard Edition 6 Gets Richer
Sun has added Java Database and Swing Visual Designer to its Java SE 6 Development Kit and is encouraging developers to leverage the expanded functionality of the latest release
    » Bring Duke Home
Find out how to add Java's Duke logo to your Web pages or blog


    SOLARIS OS, UNDER THE HOOD
  » Sun Introduces Revolutionary New File System, Solaris ZFS
An updated architecture for managing data is blowing away 20 years of obsolete assumptions
    » Holy Batman! The Penguin Plays Catch-up
Get the facts in a recent comparison of Solaris 10 and Linux 2.6 for application developers
    » Major Open Source Database Gets Boost
Open source PostgreSQL database for x86 architectures comes to Solaris 10


    DON'T MISS THIS!
  » Behind the Scenes Look at JavaOne
Experience the energy of JavaOne with an inside look from a developer's standpoint


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