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• Facebook Firehose May Be Released at Developer Conference F8

• Tim Bray Throws His Hat into The Android Ring Because He Hates The iPhone

• Microsoft to Offer Web Analytics for Silverlight Apps

• More Suggestions of Multitasking in iPhone OS 4.0

• Microsoft Releases MVC Upgrade For Building Web Apps

• Google Wave Extensions Gallery Launches

• Open Source NoSQL Databases Ramp Up

• Behind The Scenes Of Apple's iPad Launch

• VMware Shares Experimental Projects on New Web Site

• Google Updates Android Developer Kit

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• Flurry’s Smartphone Industry Pulse, February 2010

• Demand for Pay-per-Use Software Pricing Will Force a Reassessment of the Industry's Framework

• The Top 6 Security Mistakes .NET Developers Make

• IT Gives Windows 7 the Green Light

• Quarterly Trends Report on Web Application Security

• Enterprise Apps Customers Have Issues

• More than 130 Million Enterprise Users in the Mobile Cloud by 2014

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• State of Software Security Report

• Half of iPhone Users Buy at Least One App Per Month

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DEVX NEWS

• Microsoft Offers Silverlight 4 Release Candidate

At MIX10 developer conference, Microsoft executives talk up new Silverlight 4 multimedia Web development platform for forthcoming Windows Phone 7 devices.

• Google Hires XML Co-Creator in Android Push

Tim Bray joins Google to help with its Android mobile software effort just a month after he resigned from Oracle.

• Apple Safari Update Tackles WebKit Vulnerabilities

Flaws originating in WebKit are chief among the issues addressed in Safari 4.0.5.

• SpringSource Adds VMware to Tomcat

New version of commercial Tomcat Java server debuts combining Java smarts with VMware virtualization.

• Digg Dumps MySQL for Cassandra

The social networking and voting site is migrating from the MySQL database to Cassandra, an open source non-relational database.

• NoSQL Supporters Challenge Relational Databases

Multiple open source projects based on a new approach to databases were discussed at this week's NoSQL Live conference.

• Google Unveils Apps Marketplace

Search giant debuts online shop for apps, expanding beyond its own App Engine to offer developers working in other frameworks an integration into the marketplace.

• Microsoft-Sponsored CodePlex Moves Ahead

The non-profit open source foundation looks to show it's not just an extension of its main backer, Microsoft.

• Top Spot at W3C Goes to Former Novell Exec

Jeffrey Jaffe takes over as the World Wide Web Consortium's CEO as the chief Web standards body looks ahead.

• Apache Project CouchDB Taking to the Cloud

Thanks to some commercial support from Cloudant, open source NoSQL database project CouchDB is getting ready to take to the cloud, offering an "organic" alternative to conventional relational databases.

• New Ubuntu Linux CEO Aims High With Lucid Lynx

Jane Silber, Canonical's new CEO, gives a look at what's coming for the popular Linux distro.

• Twitter Surpasses 70,000 Apps

Biz Stone, co-founder of the popular microblogging service, notes the growth of the company and the launch of its first developer event.

• Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Hits Beta 2

New milestone gives Microsoft a chance to talk up enhancements ahead for application developers.

• Oracle Says OpenSolaris Will Stay Open Source

Seeking to ease concerns about the future of the OpenSolaris project following the acquisition of Sun, Oracle is assuring the community that it will keep OpenSolaris available as open source, and invest heavily in its development.

• Is Bloom Box the Silicon Valleys Last Surprise?

The fuel cell startup Bloom Energy emerged after ten years in stealth mode. Could any tech firm these days come within earshot of that record? And if not, does it matter?

• Novell: Linux Breaks Even, Microsoft Deal Slumps

High times for Linux at Novell, even if its groundbreaking agreement with Microsoft isn't paying off too well as of late.

• Linux Kernel Ups Graphics, Drops Android

The Linux 2.6.33 kernel ushers in new enhancements for Nvidia graphics support, storage, and other areas.

• What Happened to Mozilla Ubiquity?

One of the most interesting Mozilla Labs projects has now stagnated. Is the project dead? Does it have a future? The Mozilla developer who led the project tells all.

• HP Boosts Security With New Analysis Tools

Computing giant teams with Fortify to bolster software security with new static and dynamic code analysis offering dubbed Hybrid 2.0, expected to become available in the second half of 2010.

• SANS Names Mistakes That Cause Vulnerability

If programmers were perfect, there would be no vulnerabilities for the bad guys to exploit. SANS Institute has listed the most common mistakes leading to the most common exploits.

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