This week's podcast features voices from the first ever Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days. We talked to many of the people presenting poster sessions on Sun Microsystems' Santa Clara campus as well as some of the contestants trying to win one of four SunSPOTs. More info

The <a href="http://pia.khe.siemens.com/index_aysystem_home-14834.htm">AySystem</a>: connecting you to anyone or anything &#150; from anywhere in the world and all of the time. Monfred Kobe discusses this new end to end Java solution from Seimens. More info

Sun Microsystems' Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps discusses some of the key points from his keynote address at FOSS-IN late last year in India. We look ahead to the upcoming Mobile and Embedded Developer Days. More info

Roger Meike talks about SunSPOTs, the device that InfoWorld has named one of the Must-have gadgets for the discerning geek. You'll hear about community, code, and plans for great presentations at January's Mobile and Embedded Developer Days. More info

While AMD stumbles around trying to get its first errata-free Barcelona quads out two years behind Intel, Intel is off planning the launch of its six-core Dunnington microprocessor, a hex, if you will, the last of the expected Core 2-based Xeon server chips before it switches over to the Nehalem microarchitecture capable of supporting eight or more cores. More info

Varonis Systems thinks it's solved a 40-year-old Unix problem: the chronic lack of visibility into file share data use and poor access control. The three-year-old New York start-up says it solved it - at least for Solaris servers and NetApp filers - by taking its agent-based DatAdvantage 3.5 actionable data governance software, the stuff of permissions and audits, and extending it from Windows to Unix, an unusual direction these days. More info

With version 4.0 of PDFNet SDK, PDFTron expands its development platform offering by adding full Java support to the PDF library. The new Java interface exposes the underlying API as a set of Java classes to enable developers to integrate PDFTron's powerful PDFNet API into their Java applications. PDFNet SDK for Java gives developers access to the same broad range of robust functionality already available for .NET, C and C++, while being able to take advantage of the many efficiencies and software development features available with the Java framework. Integration of the new Java version with other applications is a breeze and plenty of Java sample code is delivered as part of the standard distribution of PDFNet SDK. More info

If you enjoy working in Java like I do, there are probably few places you would rather be right now than at JavaOne 2006. Particularly hot web development topics at JavaOne this year include the newly-released JavaEE 5 platform for building enterprise Java applications more easily, and the associated updates coming in NetBeans 5.5. But whether [...]<br style="clear: both;"/> <img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=bf9849081a0d4fa82da129634eed5c52"/> More info

As we enter into the Holiday season, the Mobile & Embedded Community wishes all a happy holiday wishes in a montage holiday greetings and new year resolutions. More info

Metallect announced the availability of an early beta release of its new architecture modeling software, XMuddle for Java. 'The response from our alpha users has been overwhelmingly positive, so we decided to make the software available to a wider community earlier than originally planned,' said Frank Auger, CEO of Metallect. 'Even though we are still in active development, we are seeing demand for more open access prior to the public beta There have been vast improvements in XMuddle's look and feel as well as to the underlying engine. Our focus on interactive white-board style diagrams makes XMuddle such a unique concept in its field.' More info