November 6, 2008

Connecting to the Web: I/O Programming in Android

o far all the previous articles in this Android series have been concerned with location-based services and the use of Google Maps for mapping applications. In this article, let’s turn our attention to some bread-and-butter issues?like connecting your Android application to the Web to download files. Very often, you need

PDC 2008 Delivers the Goods

t this past week’s sold-out Professional Developer’s Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, Calif., Microsoft delivered a huge range of announcements, demos of new features and hardware, upgrades to existing product lines, and a new cloud computing strategy called “Azure,” promoted as nothing less than a new “tier” for developers and