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Google releases Android 1.0 SDK beta
News With the new beta SDK, though, the company is telling programmers they can get started in earnest creating software that will work on Android phones due to start shipping later this year, though stopping short of promising full compatibility. [19 Aug 2008]
Web 2.0, cloud computing 'to transform business'
News We expect early adopters to start applying these in novel ways and driving new classes of application, such as using 3D printers to dramatically change the supply chain by creating products and replacement parts at the point of need. [11 Aug 2008]
Dell hits carbon neutral target
News The target was met through improved energy efficiency at Dell's own facilities combined with green electricity purchases and investments in wind power in the US, China and India totalling 645 million kWh and creating savings of 400,000 metric tons... [06 Aug 2008]
LiMo adds browser-based UI kit to arsenal
News The mobile Linux company Movial officially joined the LiMo Foundation on Monday, bringing with it its toolkit for creating browser-based user interfaces. Movial was one of the companies involved in the LiPS Forum, a group that was dedicated to... [05 Aug 2008]
Microsoft goes mobile with Live Mesh
News Microsoft's vision of creating a syncing tool for anyone is similar to Apple's MobileMe. Microsoft has quietly released an update to its Live Mesh product to support mobile access. From a phone's web browser users can access the service via m.mesh... [22 Jul 2008]
UK failing to respect computing heritage
News Graham Yellowley, head of IT for investment bank Mitsubishi UFJ Securities said: "We have a history of brilliant people creating the most inventive computing related tools on limited budgets and then the intellectual property gets taken over by... [15 Jul 2008]
Coming soon - malware threats to iPhone 2.0?
News Howard Schmidt, former advisor to the White House on cyber security, similarly noted in April that the availability of SDKs for mobile devices increases the likelihood of malware writers creating malicious code specifically for mobiles. [14 Jul 2008]
Google open sources data-moving tool
News Even so, Google was criticised on some fronts for creating its own system from scratch and ignoring currently existing approaches. Golightly said in a blog post: "I'm always just a little disappointed when someone goes about creating their own new... [11 Jul 2008]
Foreign Office tech overspend leads to project trimming
News A spokeswoman for the FCO explained the overspend: "FTN is the FCO's telecommunications network.m was the estimate in 2000, in the intervening eight years the FCO has deployed many new applications creating a significant additional demand for... [07 Jul 2008]
Open source to 'blow mobiles open'
News Software vendor Citrix recently demonstrated the potential of virtualisation on a mobile handset by creating a Windows XP environment on an iPhone utilising a thin client. Open source software will mean the end of proprietary phone and software... [30 Jun 2008]
Game over for Mobile Linux standards forum
News Asked whether the idea of creating a formal specification for mobile Linux was now dead, he said: "All the LiPS [intellectual property] assets are being transferred to LiMo, and we hope to make good use of that. [27 Jun 2008]
Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry Ford
News Writing on his blog Colony refers to the behaviour employed by Gates as "constructive monopolism" due to the benefits it created for technology users by creating a set of standards. During his career Gates has made Microsoft into one of the biggest... [25 Jun 2008]
Nokia buys Symbian and looks to open mobile future
News OS maker Symbian has today announced it is to transform into a not-for-profit foundation - The Symbian Foundation - uniting the Symbian OS, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) OSes and creating one open mobile software platform aimed at driving innovation in... [24 Jun 2008]
Google Android facing a fragmented future?
News The advantage is for developers to build cool applications for it, so creating an implementation that fragments to the point where applications don't work doesn't make sense. Google's Android mobile phone stack will end up fragmented into multiple... [13 Jun 2008]
Nokia: Open source needs a lesson in business
News LiMo is an industry consortium that is creating a common middleware layer to help Linux-based software make it onto handsets from a variety of manufacturers. Open-source developers targeting the mobile space need to learn business rules including... [12 Jun 2008]
