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LiMo targets the business mobile

News Leach said: "For LiMo it is a validation of its collaborative-development model and the [intellectual property] safe harbour that it creates, allowing proprietary and open-source software to co-exist within a single platform.

Tags: business, mobile, linux

[15 May 2008]

Google lays out mobile future

News She added that, although Android is Google's platform, the mobile apps team sees it as just another platform for its technology - reflecting the company's open culture. London is now the main base for Google's mobile application development - with...

Tags: web, apps, android, mobile

[13 May 2008]

Open source key to SaaS future

News The analyst predicts users will increasingly turn to 'application platform as a service' providers to bring in open source to help share software applications. But he warned users should not assume prices will fall as vendors may choose to improve...

Tags: gartner, future, sharing, saas

[16 Apr 2008]

Microsoft: Vista security feature designed 'to annoy users'

News Cross, speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, said: "The reason we put UAC into the [Vista] platform was to annoy users - I'm serious. Anyone trying to shrink that attack surface and promote secure apps development has to be a...

Tags: vista, uac, microsoft

[14 Apr 2008]

Google invites developers to play on the Bigtable

News While Google is keen to drive the wider usage of the internet as an application platform, opinions from the web-development community itself appear to suggest a note of caution before moving forward into this area of so-called 'cloud' computing...

Tags: bigtable, google

[09 Apr 2008]

SAP takes tag-team approach to exec reshuffle

News With the addition of the three executive board members, SAP's Peter Zencke, who heads SAP's application platform and research will step down this year, when his term expires. SAP also announced three new members to its executive board: Erwin Gunst...

Tags: ceo, sap

[04 Apr 2008]

LiMo Foundation launches Linux Android rival

News The not-for-profit LiMo Foundation plans to announce the launch of LiMo Platform Release 1 at the CTIA show in Las Vegas today. Andrew Shikiar, director of global marketing for the LiMo Foundation, said: "This is a significant achievement for LiMo...

Tags: android, google, linux, mobile

[31 Mar 2008]

IBM's latest Lotus targets mobile mash-ups

News A central part of Lotus Expeditor technology is its use of the Eclipse embedded Rich Client Platform application model. IBM's Expeditor news came at the same time as the announcement by US telecoms provider Sprint that it is providing a beta...

Tags: ibm, mobile, mash-up, lotus

[26 Mar 2008]

Nationwide banks on SAP

News Nationwide Building Society will use the latest version of SAP's banking platform as the foundation for its £300m Voyager business transformation project. The SAP for Banking platform will replace Nationwide's Unisys and Fujitsu legacy systems for...

Tags: nationwide, legacy, transformation, platform

[18 Mar 2008]

Cloud computing - the data centre of the future?

News Forrester identified a wide range of companies as "cloud providers," including Amazon.com, Akamai Technologies, Joyent, Rackspace's Mosso software, and Salesforce.com's Force.com development platform.

Tags: datacentre, cloud, providers, hosting

[11 Mar 2008]

Red Bull F1 racing up the grid

News With the constant need for more computing power, the team is using Platform Computing's LSF system to take advantage of spare processing power across its network. Nevey added: "What Platform and LSF gives us is the ability to fully utilise resources.

Tags: f1, power, supercomputer, development

[07 Mar 2008]

Steve Jobs slams Flash - opens door to Silverlight?

News At the Mix '08 show in Las Vegas, Microsoft corporate VP .NET developer platform, Scott Guthrie, alluded to support for Apple's iPhone, saying Microsoft wants Silverlight running on "anything that has an SDK [software development kit]".

Tags: flash, steve jobs, iphone, silverlight

[06 Mar 2008]

Guardian site gets million-pound makeover

News The news section of the site has just been migrated to the new bespoke content management platform this month and full migration is expected this summer. The content management system, dubbed the 'R2 project' by Turcan's development team gives the...

Tags: media, navigation, content management, management system

[29 Feb 2008]

Android rocks up at Mobile World Congress

News Google launched Android, an open development platform in November last year. Supposedly, Android will alleviate this problem, as it provides a common operating system and development platform with all the basic functionality.

Tags: mwc, google, android, mobile phones

[12 Feb 2008]

Second Life tackles virtual nuisances

News The interesting thing here about Linden Lab's project here is that we're building a platform for development and it can be used in any number of ways. Harper said: "What we're doing with the platform is working with other interested technologists...

Tags: banks, gambling, second life, grey goo

[12 Feb 2008]

Macs no longer safe from cyberattacks

News The security challenge for Mac users centres on the development of more intelligent malware-delivery mechanisms, which detect the platform being used by a web surfer and then deliver an appropriate threat.

Tags: apple, malware, mac, exploit

[23 Jan 2008]

William Hill ditches £26m web upgrade

News An independent review of NextGen software platform in November highlighted some serious issues that led the company to terminate the development programme.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Bookmaker William Hill has scrapped a £26m in-house software...

Tags: online, third party, software, william hill

[11 Jan 2008]

Bill Gates sings at CES for one last time

News Gates said getting so many Vista PCs out will make the platform more attractive. That's a very significant milestone for application development and specialised hardware work. In his annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) address, the Microsoft...

Tags: vista, olympics, ford, gates

[07 Jan 2008]

Experts tip six technologies to watch

News The CST also named four 'platform or enabling' technologies to support the above, including increased internet bandwidth for homes, businesses and mobile devices. Related to this is the development of low carbon electricity distribution networks to...

Tags: carbon, climate, plastic, healthcare

[05 Dec 2007]

Businesses warned over consumer tech 'bargains'

News She said the premium companies pay for business systems "reflects the real value" they offer in terms of reliability, ongoing technical support and stable platform development. Businesses have been warned they risk higher costs if they buy cheaper...

Tags: gartner, consumer, hardware, pcs

[03 Dec 2007]

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