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Nokia & Vodafone Tighten Focus on High-volume Mobile Devices
Nokia and Vodafone have posted the early draft review of JSR-249 Mobile Service Architecture 2. The Java ME community has developed a unified Java application environment standard for mobile phones as part of the JSR 248 Mobile Service Architecture (MSA) specification.
GWT 1.5 M2 Offers Support for Java 5
Google has released the second milestone of GWT 1.5, an open source Java-to-JavaScript compiler and library for building AJAX applications in Java. The major new feature in version 1.5 is support for Java 5, including generics, enums, annotations, and the enhanced for loop. Bruce Johnson, co-creator of GWT, provides a breakdown list of the new features in this milestone release:
Now Developers Really Matter for Embarcadero
Borland's developer tools unit, Codegear, is now vying for a new lease of life after languishing on the sales block for more than six months now. Data management and admin tools vendor Embarcadero Technologies has announced it was buying CodeGear from Borland for the fire sale price of $23 million.
Mashups Making Inroads Into Enterprise
The Web is continuously democratizing how information is consumed. Today, personal Web use has led to a rapid increase in user sophistication which is naturally reaching the Enterprise. A new mode of information visualization known as a Mashup combined with the collaborative aspects of Web 2.0 is finding success where Composite Applications struggled: cost, speed of development and interactivity. By moving the integration point from the service layer to the presentation layer, driven by the user themselves and controlled by secured processes, Mashups are gaining an Enterprise facet promoting them to be the new generation of Composite Applications.
Borland's Silk 2008 Test Suite Boosts RIA
Borland has revamped its QA testing suite with important new functions. The new Borland Silk 2008 product line, released last month, offers updated versions of Borland SilkTest, SilkPerformer and SilkCentral Test Manager. The fresh offerings target software test and QA operations and mark a significant evolution in the Silk product family, which was acquired in 2006 when Borland purchased Segue Software. Borland claims it has released updates to SilkTest on an average of every six months since its $100 million acquisition of Segue.
Developers Rank MS Web 2.0 Program Over Google, Facebook
Software developers active in Web 2.0 development ranked Microsoft's MSN/Live Windows Developer Program higher than developer programs offered by Google, eBay, Yahoo, Facebook, or PayPal in the 2008 Evans Data Corp. Web 2.0 Developer Programs Users' Choice survey announced today and conducted in March of this year.
Window Phone - Unlocking Opportunities
In this video recorded at Mobile Developer Summit 2011, learn the features of Windows Phone 7.5 including recent innovations and insider tricks that will help you outshine your...
Window Phone - Unlocking Opportunities In this video recorded at Mobile Developer Summit 2011, learn the features of Windows Phone 7.5 including recent innovations and insider tricks that will help you outshine your... Android & Enterprise Mobility This session introduces Enterprise Mobility, and all that needs to be done to mobilize the enterprise infrastructure. Also learn the Android OS in a nutshell and its enterprise ready... Windows Phone 7.5 - Hello Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) is a different kind of phone, architected to put the focus on end users and the people important to them. Developers on the Windows Phone platform can build... iOS Computer Vision and Vision-based Augmented Reality With the new camera, compass, and processor power of the iPhone 3GS, it's possible to integrate the iPhone with even more of your users' everyday life using Augmented Reality. Join... Mobile Web Rising The popularity of smartphone devices and platforms like the iPhone, Android and BlackBerry has triggered an explosion of proprietary and mutually incompatible software platforms. Web... Smartphone for Everyone The cell phone has evolved a long way from being a bearer of voice to being a sophisticated platform to deliver magical applications to the user. This new definition of the phone requires... Ten Commandments for iPhone Development Learn 10 do's and dont's about iPhone software development, taken directly from Adrian's own experience, which will help you identify and solve potential problems in your own projects.