Development environments
Developers cheer the much-wanted transparency in Apple's secretive apps-approval process... more
Half of all paid apps are downloaded 1,000 times or less -- and only 10 percent get close to 75,000 downloads... more
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?... more
Flash Builder for Force.com offers reusable user interface components and integration with Adobe's LiveCycle Data Services... more
Company to offer free edition of its IntelliJ IDEA technology alongside commercial version... more
The project gains support for Ericsson and Sony Ericsson developer communities... more
America's largest carrier wants to consolidate the smartphone market under its control -- and that's bad news for promising upstarts like Palm... more
The iPhone's outrageous security snafu, bolstered by stumbles at Palm and Google, may mean that next-gen 'mobile 2.0' devices won't take root in business... more
SapphireSteel's Amethyst offers a new RIA option to developers using Visual Studio ... more
Sophisticated DataWindow works on WPF, Windows Forms, and ASP.Net... more
Software makers have their work cut out for them in building apps for these newfangled devices -- starting with deciding which mobile devices to support... more
Beta database application system builds responsive Web applications... more
Visual Basic, C# to be more interoperable with platforms like Python, JScript, and others... more
Development tool creates Web sites, RIAs, and cloud applications from desktop Windows Forms applications... more
Forthcoming MotoDev Studio said to provide a full, rich development environment for Android devices -- not just Motorola's... more
OSGi and PHP support, among other capabilities, are highlighted in the IntelliJ Idea 9 milestone release... more
CEO Jan Aleman discusses Servoy, his Java-based IDE that can produce desktop and Web interfaces from a single code base... more
However, it remains to be seen if Oracle will back the technology once the Sun merger is complete... more
Eclipse remains one of the top three examples of meritocratic open source driven by an open community; vendor collaboration makes this possible... more
Zend Studio 7.0 will support PHP 5.3 and integrate with other company technologies like Zend Framework and Zend Server to provide everything needed to build a Web application... more
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