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Google admits breaking App Store rules

Google acknowledged breaking the official rules of Apple's iPhone software development kit when it created the latest version of the Google Mobile application for the iPhone, but denied a more serious charge. Read more »

Windows 7 gets mixed reviews

As developers received their copies of Windows 7 on Tuesday in the US, they offered varied reactions to the Microsoft operating system update. Read more »

Coders win from Android Market

Google officially opened its Android Market Wednesday in the US and promised that beginning next year, programmers would get the lion's share of revenue from applications sold on the download site for the company's mobile phone operating system. Read more »

Opera mobile gets Symbian support

There's been a lot of activity recently in the world of mobile browsers. Read more »

Surface developer tools coming this month

The long-awaited software developer kit for the Surface tabletop computer will be made available to those attending Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference at the end of the month. Read more »

Android security team appeals to bug hunters

The security team behind Google's mobile platform, Android, has tried to raise its profile among security researchers by appealing for their vigilance in monitoring the platform. Read more »

Google releases near-final Android programming tool

Google on Monday released the first beta version of its software developer kit (SDK) for Android phones, a significant step in the company's hope for "open" phone technology. Read more »

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Flash becomes more searchable

Adobe Systems has announced it's partnering with search giants Google and Yahoo to increase the quality of search results of dynamic Web content and rich internet applications (RIAs). Read more »

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Apple answers call for iPhone applications

Apple wowed the cell phone industry a year ago with the first version of the iPhone. And now its new software development kit and soon-to-be-launched application store featuring third-party applications could change the game yet again. Read more »

Apple's WWDC: New iPhone, new OS X, new .Mac?

Expect to hear new details about the future of Apple's Mac OS X and Web business next week at the Worldwide Developers Conference — and we think there might be a new iPhone, too. Read more »

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What Ray Ozzie sees in Azure's cloud

In an interview after his keynote at the PDC, Ozzie talked about what Azure means for developers, businesses, and even the everyman. Read more »

Build an AIR application for your website

Adobe AIR brings web technologies to the desktop through the integration of the Webkit rendering engine in a Flash-style desktop-based runtime. AIR applications running on HTML, CSS and Javascript can interact with the local file system, manipulate local SQL databases and even use AJAX on any domain. Read more »

Choose the right JDBC driver for your database interface

Picking the right driver can optimise connectivity between your Java apps and database. Read more »

Seamlessly integrate applications with eBay using its Windows SDK

The eBay Windows SDK allows you to easily access eBay data within your application. Tony Patton gives you an overview of the functionality provided by the eBay Web services API. Read more »

Using Google as an application platform

Find out why Google Apps is a powerful alternative to more established products such as Microsoft SharePoint and IBM Lotus Notes. And, if Google Apps doesn't offer the applications you need, see why the Google App Engine might fit the bill. Read more »

See how the Java API for XML Registries works

Web application developers must deal with a number of distributed registries, each with its own API or protocol. The Java API for XML Registries (JAXR) aims to unify these approaches so that each may be used as needed in an automatic fashion. Read more »

Silverlight 2.0 offers paradigm shift from predecessor

A quick overview of what you'll find in the latest version of Silverlight. Read more »

How to start using the features in Java OpenGL

This article offers an overview of the main features of JOGL and provides some insight about how to use them. See the image below, which is a screenshot of OpenGL rendering using JOGL. This is a demonstration of refraction and mirroring effects. Read more »

Adobe AIR brings the Web to the desktop

The Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) lets developers build Web applications with a rich user interface that mimics desktop applications. Read more »

Developing Bluetooth wireless applications in J2ME

This article reviews the principles of Java development for Bluetooth on mobile devices and describes how to write a Java application for Bluetooth communications. Read more »

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Why Adobe open sourced Flex SDK

Mike Downey, principal evangelist at Adobe, explains why Adobe chose to open source its Flex SDK. Read more »

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Getting started with Android's SDK

Dan Morrill, Google developer advocate, explains how developers can get started with the Android SDK. Read more »

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A gaggle of Google I/O predictions

CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Stephen Shankland discuss the upcoming Google I/O conference in San Francisco. Could a second mobile SDK be released? Or maybe the winner of the Android developer contest? Read more »

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Super Monkey Boy -- Club Builder

This week we look at the first beta of IE8, examine the iPhone SDK and Steve Ballmer does what he does best on stage. Read more »

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iPhone SDK makes public debut

From games to instant-messaging and business-oriented applications, Apple demonstrated practical uses of its software development kit. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi shares the highlights from the event at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, California Read more »

Blog (14)

Google faces down Apple

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- What's the point in following Apple's rules on the iPhone SDK if other developers will just flaunt them? We check the answer out and cover the other issues from the week: OLPC, IE, Ballmer and the Internet in space. Read more »

Windows Azure: New windows, same tools

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- Microsoft was at pains to stress that it will be creating an environment that developers feel familiar towards for Windows Azure development. Read more »

Yahoo to expose its wiring to developers

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Phase one came last week, when Yahoo launched its new profiles site. Phase two begins next week, when web developers can start sinking their teeth into Yahoo's attempt to replace its present static design with one that's customisable, application-rich, socially connected, and woven into other parts of the Internet. Read more »

XP stays on life support for longer

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This week's Roundup looks at Microsoft's decision to extend the life of Windows XP, the release of Microsoft Surface SDK, Firefox's new Geode plug-in, Yahoo's new tool -- Smush It and more. Read more »

Is Apple alienating App Store developers?

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Apple's App Store is quite a success - but for that to continue, says Seb Janacek, the company needs to watch out it doesn't anger developers. Read more »

Android devs less than gruntled

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Yet more discouraging news on the Android front. Having hacked off its developer community by releasing updated SDKs to just a small group of chosen devs, Google has now given the brush-off to a petition that called for more to be given to the wider community. Read more »

A new coat of varnish

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This week featured plenty of coverage from the various conferences occurring around the country. All the while Builder's design gnomes were busy give the site a touch-up. Read more »

Opera Widget SDK released

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Opera has announced the release of Opera Widgets SDK beta, that allows Web developers to create Web applications capable of running on all devices. Read more »

How soon is Semantic?

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- At some point in the future you will be able arrive at work George Jetson-style. Your electric flying car will be streaming content to you from the new Semantic Web while your son in the backseat will be enjoying Duke Nukem Forever. Read more »

SCO of the dead

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- It lives -- struggling along with a bad limp and only one thing on its mind -- brains. Will anyone be able to stop the zombie-like progress of SCO? Read more »

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