Who's in charge of Android development: Google or developers?

Google says Android is an open development process, but partners say the company is running the show to ensure Android's commercial viability

Eich: JavaScript getting faster, could displace Flash

JavaScript's founder claims JavaScript has displaced Java as a Web client, outlines projected enhancements

Palm's Ares WebOS tool allows for easy app dev

Coming by year's end, Ares will help developers pull together components via JavaScript to build apps for the Pre and Pixi

IBM announces new beta services for cloud software development

Big Blue is prepping pay-as-you-go infrastructure as well as full-lifecycle services for private clouds, though there isn't significant demand for could-based app dev yet

Now open source: Several of Google's JavaScript tools

Closure compiler and related JavaScript libraries could help developers improve Web apps' performance

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