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  • Microsoft offers Visual Studio 2010 preorder bonus

    Other capabilities include multi-monitor support and the ability to target multiple versions of the .Net Framework with a single tool.Somasegar also announced MSDN Essentials, which includes a one-year trial subscription to MSDN (Microsoft…
    03 March 2010

  • Mobile operators gang up to fight Apple over apps store

    Twenty-four mobile network operators have formed the Wholesale Applications Community to avoid fragmenting the apps market and to give developers one point of entry to all the members.The GSM Association said that the operators will now start…
    16 February 2010
    Tags: Store • Manufacturers • Jack • Electronics • App • Android

  • Opera Mini mobile browser has 50 million users

    Opera said this subsequently speeds up the browsing experience and also saves users a substantial amount of money on their data usage bills.The browser developer revealed Opera Mini took 28 months to gain its first 10 million users but the last 10…
    15 February 2010
    Tags: Opera Mini • Mobile Phone • Handset • Browsing

  • Android and LTE devices to dominate Mobile World Congress

    Also, Fraunhofer IIS is introducing audio codecs for surround sound.Besides new devices, Google CEO Eric Schmidt is one of the keynote speakers and Google will host an Android Developer Lab, at which developers will, for example, learn about games…
    12 February 2010
    Tags: Visitors • Smartphones • Nextgeneration • Event • Ericsson • Android

  • Touchscreens corner the smartphone market

    Developer bandwidth is as big an issue for this industry as network bandwidth. For the first time ever, smartphones with touch screens accounted for more than half of all smartphone shipments globally in Q4 2009, taking 55 percent of the market.
    09 February 2010
    Tags: Smartphones • Smartphone • Shipments • Screens • Rim • Mobile Phones

  • Apple tablet operating in the wild says analytics firm

    Flurry tracked the devices using the code that its developer clients embed in their iPhone software to give them usage data.We're seeing about 50 [devices] now," said Peter Farago, Flurry's vice president of marketing, in an interview today.
    25 January 2010
    Tags: Apps • Tracking • Analytics • Category • Books • Tablet

Latest Features

  • Hackers capture Hollywood imaginations

    Although today's hacker is more likely to be a professional software developer or security expert, that pimply faced teenager image persists. In 1983's War Games, Matthew Broderick plays a teenaged hacker who inadvertently brings the world to the…
    25 February 2010
    Tags: War • Skills • Science • Robert • Games • Criminal

  • Microsoft vs. Google: The empire strikes back

    His plan includes free, ad-supported services for consumers; hosted software as a service (SaaS) for businesses; tight integration of services with desktop software; and new platforms to allow Microsoft's vast developer community to build Web…
    23 February 2010
    Tags: Redmond • Flagship • Cloud Computing • Argue • Architect • Apis

  • Smartbook: the ultimate evolution of the netbook?

    Chipmaker MIPS Technologies is even jumping into the fray by retaining software developer Embedded Alley to port Android to the MIPS processor architecture.Pundits have made much ado about Google's seemingly divergent mobile OS projects, pointing…
    08 December 2009
    Tags: User Interface • Battery Life • Smartphones • Inexpensive • Eric • Usability

  • Sorry was the easiest word for tech companies in 2009

    We sincerely apologise for this mistake and thank our customers for bringing this to our attention.A website bearing the name of Sikalosoft, the developer of the app, also contained an apology of sort, plus information about Shaken Baby Syndrome…
    01 December 2009
    Tags: Audience • Incident • Resolve • Acts • Theory • Danger

  • The unstoppable rise of mobile applications

    Or maybe they'll simply carve out a niche in the great computing universe, far from the prophesised paradigm shift.Yes, iPhone has a lot of momentum, unquestionably," Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect, told CNET at Microsoft's…
    20 November 2009
    Tags: Coverage • Apps • Motorola • Smartphone • App • Android

  • Motorola Droid vs. Apple iPhone 3GS

    Overall, the user interface is more polished and intuitive.Despite the undoubted improvements, one Android developer, Justin Shapcott, founder and lead developer at nEx.software, says there are a range of bugs and fixes that Google still has not…
    29 October 2009
    Tags: Maps • Windows Mobile • Smartphone • Browsing • Arm • Switched

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How-Tos

  • How to get an Apple iPad for work

    With some proactive planning and attention to Apple's information (joining the iPhone developer program would not be a bad idea if you really want details), you can ensure that when the iPad shows up on your network, you're as ready as can be for it.
    19 February 2010
    Tags: Presentations • Mac Os • Keynote • Iphones • Ignore • Assuming

  • How to fix the most common Internet problems

    The developer says it's because FlashMute uses the same method of hooking into your browser as some types of AdWare, but it's only intercepting sound from Flash and other Web sources. You might not get the full functionality of your favorite…
    16 February 2010
    Tags: Friends • Engines • Bar • Ads • Addon • Ad

  • Five ways to improve website uptime

    Brian Sutherland, a managing partner at Vanguardistas, a company that provides a scaling architecture for sites such as that of US News and World Report, says that a vast majority of websites are poorly programmed and aren't able to withstand…
    05 November 2009
    Tags: Downtime • San Francisco • Advance • Mechanisms • Programming • Viewed

  • How to make cloud computing more secure

    Yet, they found most of their customers did not consider the security implications of using a machine image created by the third-party developer.Some customers have based an entire authentication server off of pre-configured images," SensePost's…
    10 August 2009
    Tags: Guys • Firms • Amazon • Instances • Trust • Thirdparty

  • How to make cloud more secure

    Yet, they found most of their customers did not consider the security implications of using a machine image created by the third-party developer.Some customers have based an entire authentication server off of pre-configured images," SensePost's…
    07 August 2009
    Tags: Third Party • Firms • Scan • Amazon • Instances • Configured

  • Case Study: The virtual virtualisation case study

    Although the downtime was largely due to the original software developer being defunct, this fiasco was a serious black mark on the IT department as a whole and a terrible start for Erics budding career at Fergenschmeir.The final push toward…
    08 February 2008
    Tags: Examine • Virtual Server • Server Virtualisation • Ed • Hadn • Missioncritical

Reviews

  • Novatel Intelligent Mobile Hotspot MiFi 2352 review

    Listed in the specs is GPS location services, but this only refers to the potential for a third party developer to access the facility. Put another way, this Novatel Intelligent Mobile Hotspot MiFi 2352 device is wireless in exactly every sense…
    19 January 2010
    Tags: Connectivity • Portable • Charge • Intelligent • Battery Life • Setup

  • Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 review

    SharePoint 2010 also offers improved developer and administration capabilities, which will likely speed application creation while easing server management.We tested beta versions of SharePoint Server, and two related apps, Visual Studio and…
    09 November 2009
    Tags: Business Users • Expertise • Administration • Sql Server • Safari • Forms

  • Apple Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Server OS review

    Apple released GCD code to open source developer trees under the Apache and MIT licenses after MacOS 10.6/Snow Leopard was released.Perhaps as a consequence of the now-removed PowerPC support, MacOS 10.6 can take advantage of differing memory…
    03 November 2009
    Tags: Mac Os • Book • Apache • Contacts • Extension • Operating Systems

  • Palm Pre smartphone

    The Palm Pre has no touch keyboard, either, so until a third-party developer creates an app for one, you're stuck using the physical keyboard.A positive note: we enountered no lag between typing and the appearance of text on screen, an annoying…
    04 June 2009
    Tags: Pictures • Acts • Instant Messaging • Removable • Pop • Usability

  • SolarWinds ipMonitor 9.0 review

    This approach is very popular these days, and quite rightly so because it lets you customise your monitoring software to fit you, not to fit some arbitrary design-time opinion of a developer.As you'd expect, SolarWinds ipMonitor 9.0 can report on…
    06 November 2008
    Tags: Monitors • Credentials • Tricks • Hosts • David Cartwright • Business Advisor

  • SolarWinds ipMonitor 9.0

    This approach is very popular these days, and quite rightly so because it lets you customise your monitoring software to fit you, not to fit some arbitrary design-time opinion of a developer.As you'd expect, ipMonitor can report on the state of…
    28 October 2008
    Tags: Discovery • Monitors • Credentials • Gui • Hosts • Snmp

White Papers

  • TrueUpdate 2.0

    End-users see update-enabled software as an assurance of quality-a symbol that the developer is there to stand behind their product. TrueUpdate 2.0 is a comprehensive solution for software developers, network administrators and IT departments…
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    Tags: Departments • Automated • Enabled • Administrators • Assurance • Software Developers

  • Manufacturing Strategy: An Adaptive Perspective

    SAP, with its broad industry experience, is the leading global developer of such solutions. Achieving this objective requires integrated solutions that connect supply chains to factory processes, production equipment, and factory systems in a…
    20 February 2007
    Tags: Heart • Seamless • Chain • Processes • Manufacturing • Centric

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