Bump wants everyone to use their technology to transfer data from one smartphone to another. With that goal in mind, they’ve released an API and held a developer contest to
Officially, Microsoft won’t reveal its strategy for Windows Phone 7 developers until the Mix conference in March. Unofficially, it looks like Silverlight, XNA, and .Net will play key roles. A
In last month’s roadmap session, Oracle said that it planned to combine Sun HotSpot Java Virtual Machine with the JRockit JVM; now it has added some details to those plans
Since it’s inception last September, the CodePlex Foundation has accepted only Microsoft projects, including the Orchard Project and the ASP.Net Ajax Library. The Microsoft-back organization, which intends to bridge the
In his keynote at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Google CEO Eric Schmidt called attention to the growing importance of mobile devices. He encouraged application developers–both inside and outside
Embarcadero offers more than 20 different tools for programmers, now all available through its Embarcadero ToolCloud. Available products include Delphi, JBuilder, C++Builder, ER/Studio and DBArtisan. Developers who use the on-demand
The Wall Street Journal gives the new mobile Windows operating system kudos for its design and plans to support Flash, but questions some of its other aspects. It points out
Developers have four basic choices for hosting a Web application. The first option is to buy their own servers and lease co-location space. That option requires a lot of upfront
On January 31, a blog titled “What’s In Store for the Next Windows,” suggested that Windows 8 development was well underway. The mysterious blogger, known only as “Sharad” wrote, “I