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Application Development news, reviews and analysis across the software lifecycle (application lifecycle management or ALM) covering enterprise software development. Topics include enterprise application development and desktop software development using a number of platforms, including Windows, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Microsoft .NET, PHP, C++, Python, Java, and Unix. development. Other areas of coverage include development technologies like JBoss, Spring, Eclipse and NetBeans, parallel programming and concurrency, development for mobile devices and smartphones, and the developer, designer/developer workflow.
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Google boosted its Google Squared search service. When Squared launched in June, users would receive up to 30 fact squares. As of today, Squared now displays up to 120 facts per query. Users can also now sort columns, letting users rank, group and compare items, with Squared converting units in the background. Users can also now export data from Squared to a Google Spreadsheet or a CSV file. Meanwhile, Google's mobile search team formally released the Quick Search Box for Android smartphones.
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Among the key issues in the Internet space today is the ongoing struggle between openness and stability in terms of standard Web technology, said a Yahoo Web technology expert. Doug Crockford, a JavaScript expert at Yahoo, calls on his company and others to not “break the Web” as they each vie for developer hearts and minds.
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A new zero-day bug affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat is being exploited in the wild. Though the vulnerability affects the products on Unix, Mac and Windows systems, the exploit observed in the wild is focused on Microsoft Windows for the moment.
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Twitter is preparing for international expansion into French, Italian, German and Spanish languages through crowdsourcing. The company is offering a tool for people with fluency in other languages to suggest translations for the microblogging service. The move follows the launch of translation tools by Google and Facebook to the public. More languages means more people have access, which means more users to glom on to the Twitter craze.
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IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.1 features native support for Apple's iPhone, leveraging Microsoft's ActiveSync technology in its Lotus Notes Traveler mobile device software. E-mail, contacts and calendar data from Lotus Domino will synchronize over the air to the iPhone, helping corporate iPhone users get their messaging information in real-time. IBM this week also made its Lotus Domino Designer 8.5.1 application development tools available free so programmers can build new business applications, which will ultimately help Notes and Domino get more traction.
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Location-based tweeting, sharable lists, and potential data mining deals with Google and Microsoft mean we are entering Twitter 2.0. This will extend Twitter beyond the simple, post 140-character missive, rant or declarative sentence and into a richer realm of real-time communications. Are we ready for all of that? Sports teams, celebrities and corporations are all struggling with Twitter, or at the least the ramifications of what happens when we say possibly defamatory or libelous things on the Web service.
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Manila-based G2iX is offering its Morph CloudServer, an appliance housed in an IBM BladeCenter solution designed to make it easier for businesses to get a private cloud up and running. G2iX is using the same industry-standard technologies as those used by Amazon and Eucalyptus. The Morph CloudServer supports Linux, Solaris and Windows, as well as Java, Ruby on Rails and PHP.
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A new site offers a self-assessment and helps people determine whether their symptoms could be caused by the H1N1 flu virus.
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Adobe Systems announces the release of Adobe ColdFusion 9, Adobe ColdFusion Builder Beta 2 and a private beta of the new ColdFusion 9 in the Cloud that will run in the Amazon Web Services environment and enable more developers to access the power of ColdFusion as a hosted service.
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A report claims AT&T's first Android smartphone will come next year in a deal with computer-maker Dell.
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Palm is pushing the envelope of mobile application development with its focus on freedom and openness. First the company is promoting the development of free applications for its Palm Pre smartphone. Also, Palm is making it free for developers to join the Palm Developer Program, which would typically require a $99 fee.
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Ingres is targeting its rivals with the addition of features meant to ease migration to its open-source database. With the enhancements in Ingres Database 9.3, the company hopes to win users from MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database and others.
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eWEEK Labs tested Microsoft's new Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system on the AT&T Pure device and found that while Version 6.5 is definitely an improvement over previous iterations of Windows Mobile, it has too many vestiges of the past.
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Research In Motion has announced a new BlackBerry Widget Software Development Kit to enable developers to build rich, integrated applications for BlackBerry smartphones using common Web technologies rather than being forced to use Java.
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As Microsoft launched Windows Mobile 6.5, HTC announced four smartphones that will run the latest version of Microsoft’s mobile operating system. One of these devices, the HTC HD2, is also the first to include HTC Sense, a new mobile user experience.
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Mojo, Palm's software development kit for WebOS, includes an easy-to-install plug-in that lets developers work within the Eclipse SDK.
The AWS Toolkit for Eclipse is a plug-in that allows developers to develop and deploy software to the Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure. The plug-in provides full integration into Eclipse, offering complete control over managing remote instances, uploading code, running code remotely and even debugging remotely without leaving Eclipse.
eWEEK Labs finds Eclipse has greatly matured from its early, much slower days. Today, the application development platform can aptly be described as powerful and feature-rich.
Processors with multiple cores are commonplace these days, creating a need for new tools that make parallel programming easier. To help programmers write code that makes use of multiple cores comes Intel Parallel Studio, which works hand-in-hand with Microsoft Visual Studio. During eWEEK Labs' tests, Intel Parallel Studio effectively identified and helped remediate problems in code, enabling developers to fine-tune programs for use with multiple cores.
With Version 3 of Silverlight, Microsoft has brought its development platform closer in line with that of Adobe Flash. However, Silverlight still lags behind Flash in terms of the capability one would expect from an RIA platform. Version 3 of the tool used for building Silverlight apps, Expression Blend, looked robust in eWEEK Labs' tests of the release candidate.
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