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Google wants to change the way you watch TV. To that end, it will launch Google TV this fall in a partnership with Sony, and it’s already working with some
Apple will officially release iOS 4.1 on September 8, but developers can access the SDK now. The update offers a number of improvements, notably a Game Center service with social
I love Ubuntu, and my wife says Mark Shuttleworth is “a nice young man,” but when it comes to enterprise servers, Red Hat is the hands-down winner and still champion.
Oracle is suingGoogle over its use of Java in its Android smartphone operating system. Some developers now believe the risk that Oracle is going to either sue or raise licensing
All of the big virtualization vendors — VMware, Citrix and Microsoft — are pushing the technology as a way to solve problems in healthcare, and more healthcare providers are trying
Targeting the legions of developers who want to build one app and deploy it across the major mobile operating systems — instead of building multiple versions of the same app
SAN FRANCISCO — Customers and analysts attending VMware’s annual VMworld conference here this week wondered repeatedly about how secure virtualization is, although they seem enthusiastic about VMware’s technology. Over 17,000
With well over 200,000 apps available in the App Store, it can be extremely difficult for developers to get their apps noticed. Cross Forward Consulting decided to try iAd for
HP has released a beta version of the webOS 2.0 SDK to developers, and its lineup of new features has some saying that other mobile platforms should be “worried.” Among
Alcatel-Lucent is making another push into the mobile app world by purchasing tool vendor OpenPlug. OpenPlug is best known for ELIPS Studio, which allows developers to create apps that run
Forget smart phones for a while. Time to check out what could be a colossal revenue stream for developers — smart TVs, as in Internet-connected boxes with app stores, RSS
Deciding how to store your application data can be a difficult decision. To help make the process easier, this article breaks the types of data into five categories: homogeneous data
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a funny topic. Other than a select few people who work for search engine companies, few have a true yes or no answer. The search
Google’s Joshua Bloch recently announced in a blog post that Google would not be participating in the JavaOne developers conference. He explained, “Oracle’s recent lawsuit against Google and open source
Scrum is considered by many to be the dominant Agile methodology today. All Agile methods got their name from the Agile Manifesto in early 2000’s. The inventors of Scrum, along
Notepad,the text editor included with Windows, has hardly any features anyone who writes text or computer code professionally might want. The only real format options it offers are wordwrap and
My old friend Serge Wroclawski has been working on OpenStreetMap.org (OSM) for a number of years now. He’s done this because he sees this as a worthwhile project — an
What’s new in the world of mobile Web app development? InfoQ asks Michael Mullany from Sencha Touch, Brian LeRoux from PhoneGap, Christopher Plieger from iWebKit, Chris Apers from WebApp.Net and
Vladimir Roth, developer of Aqua Globs HD for the iPhone and iPad says that 50 percent of iPad users didn’t pay for their download, even though it only cost $1.99.
In today’s world, software security is the first and foremost requirement of any customer when you are developing a new application. But you can develop a secure application by mitigating
Developers regularly complain about needing access to production servers because system administrators are too slow or because developers need to troubleshoot code. In this post, Brandt offers several reasons why
Flurry’s AppCircle program recommends apps to users based on their personal likes and disklikes. Now the company is expanding AppCircle with a new program called “AppCircle Rewards,” which lets developers
Every day, the cost of creating software and web products is decreasing. That means that the barrier to entry is decreasing and every day, more and more people are able
I wanted to focus this article on the actual cost of cloud computing. We covered different types of clouds in the previous article, “Understanding the Clouded Cloud,” but we never
Just about everybody in the technology game realizes that in order to stay viable you need to constantly be learning new stuff, be it a specific technology, a best practice
Currently, developers can use Microsoft’s existing tools, like .Net and visual studio, to write applications for the Azure cloud. However, Microsoft is also working on a project code-named “Orleans” which
It used to be that anyone could buy a Nexus One smartphone from Google’s Web site, but no one wanted to. Now, the phone can only be purchased by registered
David Cao, an organizer of the Silicon Valley Android Developers group, says “The group is very, very unhappy” with Oracle’s lawsuit against Google. Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth adds, “Oracle has significantly
SAN FRANCISCO — Augmented reality is what you get when you superimpose data over the physical world, and it’s merely cool today. But it’s already providing lots of opportunity for
I had a dream. In it, I was CEO of a large telecommunications company that was also a major broadband Internet provider and all five members of the FCC were
