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Android's fast release cycle could backfire

October 29, 2009

Android 2.0 is coming hot on the heels of the previous version, but will such rapid change leave customers wary of Google's mobile OS?

6 comments|

78 Recommendations

Tags: mobile platforms, development environments, smartphones, other operating systems, Google Android

The sad state of the mobile Web gets even sadder

October 15, 2009

Desktop browsers are undergoing a technological renaissance -- so why are smartphones stuck in the Dark Ages?

6 comments|

234 Recommendations

Tags: mobile platforms, rich internet application development tools, Web applications, mobile applications, smartphones, iPhone, JavaScript, HTML, Web 2.0, Google Gears

Flash for iPhone is a Hail Mary pass for Adobe

October 08, 2009

Flash CS5 will output native iPhone binaries, but can Adobe convince developers to choose Flash over Web standards?

6 comments|

315 Recommendations

Tags: mobile platforms, development tools, rich internet application development tools, mobile applications, smartphones, iPhone, Adobe Flash, mobile SDKs, iPhone SDK

Verizon's scary designs to become the Microsoft of mobile

October 01, 2009

America's largest carrier wants to consolidate the smartphone market under its control -- and that's bad news for promising upstarts like Palm

4 comments|

397 Recommendations

Tags: mobile platforms, development environments, smartphones, other operating systems, Palm, WebOS, Verizon, Palm Pre, mobile SDKs, app stores

Intel architecture to rule them all?

September 24, 2009

Intel claims its processor architecture can power any device, from PCs and servers to smartphones and TVs. But will a CPU monoculture benefit customers?

8 comments|

490 Recommendations

Tags: processors, application development, development frameworks, mobile platforms, Intel, multicore, ARM

What not to code: Why in-house apps need a professional eye

September 17, 2009

If you rely on programmers to design your application's UI, the result will be software with a face only a developer could love

18 comments|

590 Recommendations

Tags: development methodologies, application development, rich internet application development tools, business process management, leadership, user interfaces (UI)

Why software developers are immune from the recession

September 10, 2009

Programmers are finding jobs and development budgets are climbing -- and we have your company's poor planning and flawed processes to thank

11 comments|

687 Recommendations

Tags: IT management, development methodologies, business process management, funding and finances, working conditions, project prioritization, agile development

Google Android: The party is over

September 03, 2009

Google's smartphone OS is open source, hardware-agnostic, and developer-friendly. So how come its developers seem so unhappy?

9 comments|

775 Recommendations

Tags: mobile platforms, development tools, mobile applications, Android Market, Google Android, mobile SDKs, app stores

HTML 5: Can the center hold?

August 28, 2009

As work progresses on the next-generation markup language, ongoing disagreements call to question the ideal of a truly standards-compliant Web

2 comments|

818 Recommendations

Tags: languages and standards, rich internet application development tools, browsers, streaming media, XML, Internet, HTML

The perils of becoming a cloud software developer

August 20, 2009

SaaS vendors and Web-based businesses such as Twitter are opening their APIs to third-party developers. But are their platform offerings strong enough to build on?

2 comments|

923 Recommendations

Tags: development platforms, Web applications, partnerships, Web companies, software as a service, Web services development, Facebook, Twitter