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RSS developer in newsMicrosoft widens its Live Mesh web
News Microsoft is expected to add more features by its Professional Developer Conference in October. Microsoft has opened up its Live Mesh service to anyone who has (or signs up for) a Windows Live ID. The service, announced in April, lets people share... [18 Jul 2008]
Google open sources web 2.0 security
News Last month, Google said it would terminate support for Browser Sync, and now the company has open sourced the code for the product's client software in order to allow the developer community to continue to use and improve it, said Google developer... [14 Jul 2008]
Google open sources data-moving tool
News David Golightly, user experience developer lead for Zillow.com, argued the textual syntax used in Protocol Buffers could have been made interoperable with an existing text-based format. Google has open sourced an internal development tool called... [11 Jul 2008]
Steve Ballmer on a future in the cloud
News He said: "The world will insist on 'click to run', not 'click to install' or 'click to configure'," referring to web applications that make use of developer technology such as Ajax to create richer environments. [10 Jul 2008]
Mobile Ubuntu invites developers to build
News Canonical this week released its first publicly available developer edition of Ubuntu for mobile internet devices. Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device Edition works on two devices at present, the Samsung Q1U and the Intel Crown Beach development station... [26 Jun 2008]
Battle of the social networks: Facebook outpaces MySpace
News The site was initially restricted to members with email addresses from a handful of elite universities, before gradually expanding to the general public and becoming a genuine Silicon Valley sensation when it kick-started the developer platform... [24 Jun 2008]
LinkedIn hits billion-dollar valuation
News LinkedIn has also continued to launch new features in the past year, like customised news and developer platform widgets. Business-networking site LinkedIn announced on Tuesday evening it had netted $53m in a Series D funding round led by Bain... [18 Jun 2008]
Firefox 3: "We're ready", says Mozilla
News In a Thursday statement on the Mozilla Developer Center website, the organisation claimed that, although Firefox 3 has been nearly three years in development, it only ever ships products when it feels they are ready. [13 Jun 2008]
Google Android facing a fragmented future?
News Fabrizio Capobianco, the chief executive of Funambol - which makes personal information management and synchronisation software for handsets and has one of the largest mobile open-source developer communities - was one of many at the conference to... [13 Jun 2008]
Nokia: Open source needs a lesson in business
News These devices are popular among developers in the Maemo developer community but, being something of a testbed, have not yet seen much traction in the mass market. In his speech, Jaaksi detailed some of the lessons Nokia had learned in its work with... [12 Jun 2008]
O2 offers business tariffs for 3G iPhone
News The operator said the 3G iPhone, which was announced yesterday by Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the company's World-Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco, will be available on current O2 business tariffs as a monthly bolt on - adding around an... [10 Jun 2008]
Unveiled: The 3G iPhone
News Steve Jobs unveiled the long-awaited 3G iPhone at the company's World-Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco on Monday with prices starting at $199 for the 8GB storage model. This is half the price of the original iPhone (which started out at... [10 Jun 2008]
Northern Ireland builds high tech credentials
News Both Crossey and MD of mobile software developer Openwave's Belfast development centre, Matt Halligan, said strong staff retention is an attraction while a strong team ethic is a feature of the local workforce. [02 Jun 2008]
Google Android - winning apps are location-based
News In accordance with the recent interest around location-based services, a wave of such applications made it through to the first round of judging for Google's new mobile platform, in the Android Developer Challenge. [20 May 2008]
Developers snub Vista for XP
News To get any application running seamlessly on Vista a developer has to have a solid understanding of UAC. They'll start with a version of .Net architecture or some other platform and then work over to the operating system .so by the time you get to... [19 May 2008]
