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Firefox Mobile Arrives On Nokia Smartphones
[...] Jostedt also said Firefox for mobile provides a platform for developers to create rich applications, where developers can use web technologies such as HTML5, CSS and JavaScript to improve, modify and customise the browser. She also recommended users download the YouTube Enabler add-on to watch YouTube videos. [...]
Adobe AIR, Flash Installations Surge
[...] Adobe AIR enables developers to use proven Web technologies to quickly design and build compelling applications that extend outside the browser, the company said. And in the last 12 months, there have been more than 1 million downloads of the AIR software development kit, the free open-source Flex framework and Adobe Flex Builder by developers building Web applications using the Adobe Flash Platform, the company said. [...] Adobe Flash Player content reaches more than 98 percent of Internet-enabled desktops, and more than 80 percent of online videos worldwide are viewed using Adobe Flash technology, Adobe officials claimed. [...] The Adobe Flash Platform is a complete system of integrated tools, frameworks, clients and servers for the development of Web applications, content and video that runs consistently across operating systems and devices. [...]
Steve Jobs Absent From Developer Keynote
[...] Last June, we gave developers an early look at the powerful new technologies that form the underpinnings of Mac OS X Snow Leopard, said Bertrand Serlet, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering, in a statement on the event. At WWDC, we will be giving our developers a final Developer Preview release so they can see the incredible progress we've made on Snow Leopard and work with us as we move toward its final release. [...] A list of sessions and labs for WWDC 2009 &mdash. including In-House App Development for iPhone and Designing USB Audio Class Devices for Mac OS X &mdash. is available here. [...] Also in store for attendees of the sold-out show is one-on-one attention with more than 1,000 Apple engineers conducting hands-on labs, and more than 100 technical sessions run by Apple engineers prepared to discuss developing, deploying and integrating iPhone OS 3. [...]
Red Hat Announces JBoss Cloud Middleware Platform
[...] Meanwhile, developer tooling is available with JBoss Developer Studio, an Eclipse-based integrated development environment that provides a comprehensive set of tools developers need to quickly build rich, highly interactive applications and services using technologies like Seam, Java EE, Spring, Hibernate, Asynchronous JavaScript and X M L (AJAX), RichFaces and more. [...] Red Hat's middleware portfolio is designed to help customers take advantage of cloud computing, the company said. As a core component of Red Hat's cloud computing foundation, customers should be able to combine JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux with integrated virtualisation technologies that provide customers with a fully virtualised, standards-based enterprise open source cloud computing service platform, supporting both on-premise and off-premise cloud deployments, Red Hat officials said. [...] With the addition of cloud enabled platforms Red Hat is anticipating our technology needs for the future which will help us make a seamless transition into cloud computing environments. Healthcare innovation, and the role mobile technology is playing in particular, is transforming individuals and organisations. [...]
CA Expands Cloud Computing Capabilities
[...] Ajei Gopal, executive vice president of CA's Products and Technology Group, said the addition of Cassatt's technologies&mdash.as well as several executives, engineers, developers and patents&mdash.will add to the company's portfolio of data centre management software and its Lean IT initiative. [...] CA Chief Architect Donald Ferguson said the combination of Cassatt's analysis and optimisation technologies with CA's automation capabilities with give CA a more comprehensive infrastructure management offering. [...] Coleman, a former Sun executive and founder of BEA Systems, was able to attract some top-line talent to Cassatt, including such people as Richard Green, another longtime Sun executive who has reached the level of vice president of Sun developer platforms and Java software when he joined Cassatt in 2004. [...]
Microsoft Joins Open Source Cloud Project
[...] The Simple Cloud API project empowers developers to use one interface to interact with a variety of cloud application services, enabling them to more easily access new technologies from cloud vendors, said Dirk Nicol, director of emerging technology in IBM's Software Group. [...] Developers can also evaluate the Simple API for Cloud Application Services by deploying their applications that use it on the Amazon cloud using the freely available Zend Server Community Edition Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for EC2. Zend Technologies also offers a Zend Server AMI that is commercially supported. [...] Zend Technologies, in association with IBM, Microsoft and others, has launched the Simple API for Cloud Application Services project, a new open source initiative that enables developers to use common application services in the cloud, while enabling them to unlock value-added features available from individual providers. [...]
Microsoft Discusses More Online Open Source Integration
[...] The community includes developers working on applications and the application pillar features applications and technologies developers can use or reuse to avoid having to build everything from scratch. [...] The Microsoft Web Platform is a set of tools, servers and technologies optimized for building and hosting next-generation web applications, including PHP applications, Cooney said. To prepare for the added support for PHP, Cooney said her team met with 25 of the top PHP developers around to get advice on how to work with the PHP community. [...] Microsoft also launched the Windows Web Application Gallery, which allows developers to discover, explore and download applications and components that will help them build Web applications. Developers can submit free applications into the Gallery, offering communities, partners and independent software vendors access to millions of Windows developers worldwide for promoting their Web solutions. [...]
Facebook Makes Friends With Open Source Apache Foundation
[...] Moreover, Recordon said Thrift, Hive, and Cassandra join about 20 different technologies we've released as open source, including Scribe, Tornado, a new JavaScript Connect library and Three20 for iPhone development. We're excited to continue working on great open-source projects and to support the ASF with funding, source code and developers. [...] Open source allows us not just to make technologies like memcached scale beyond its original intent, but to release technologies like Thrift for others to build upon as well. . [...] From the day Mark Zuckerberg started building Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004, the site has been built on common open source software such as Linux, Apache, memcached, MySQL, and PHP. In that time, we've open sourced more than 20 different technologies, and scaled Facebook to reach over 350 million people around the world. [...]
WebsiteSpark Launch Aims To Boost Microsoft Web Development
[...] Meanwhile, Microsoft also launched Web Platform Installer 2.0, which provides developers with a simplified installation of Microsoft products and technologies that helps reduce download complexity. Version 2 includes new additions such as IIS Media Services and a Windows Azure software development kit (SDK). [...] Developers are the lifeblood of our business, and we are wholly committed to ensuring their success, said Bob Muglia, president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business division, in a statement. WebsiteSpark makes Microsoft's web development tools and support more accessible to developers and designers at small companies as they create inventive applications for the web. [...] We want to make sure we get web developers the ability to get Microsoft technologies seamlessly, Amos told eWEEK. [...]
Microsoft Releases Web Platform Installer
[...] Indeed, Microsoft officials said Web PI simplifies the installation of Microsoft's developer technologies, from.NET Framework 3.5 to ASP.NET to Silverlight and more, for building Web applications. [...] Microsoft has delivered Version 1.0 of its Web Platform Installer, a free download manager that enables developers to install the Microsoft Web Platform or at least part of it. [...] Microsoft delivers Version 1.0 of its Web Platform Installer (Web PI), a free download manager that enables developers to install the Microsoft Web Platform or at least part of it. Web PI simplifies the installation of Microsoft's developer technologies, from. [...]
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