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  • Sun readies Java app servers

    Sun Microsystems plans to begin beta testing the high-end versions of its Java application server next month and release them by the end of the year.

  • Telcos seek killer mobile application

    Singapore Telecommunications, its regional affiliates and Sun Microsystems have launched a month-long competition to uncover the best mobile Java-based applications.

  • Facebook to 'punish' bad apps

    Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed a change in the social networking company's approach to its application platform when he took the stage at the F8 conference in the US today.

  • Is Google's App Engine a lock-in honeypot?

    Some developers fear that Google is aiming to lock them into to the App Engine platform Google's application hosting service but Google refutes any claim it has evil intentions.

  • Apps need easy desktop-cloud migration: Ballmer

    The future lies in the platform in the cloud, according to Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer.

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  • The next frontier for app server supersuites: Security

    With this week's rollout of Web Logic Enterprise Security, BEA is fueling the convergence and consolidation of application security and identity management. Is BEA fighting an uphill battle?

  • Who is responsible for security?

    A flurry of worm and viral activity on the Internet raises a question more important than who to blame: What do we do about it?

  • XML: Great hope or great hype?

    XML has been called everything from the technology that will revolutionise the Web to a nuisance. What's really the story?

  • Case study: Western Power quality tool

    Despite having a quality management product on the books at Western Power, no one was using it, causing the energy company to have problems with software development quality.

  • Deploying with AppExchange

    The hardest part of creating a successful software application is often not the coding -- it's getting that product out to its intended market.

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  • Jobs unveils iPhone App Store

    At an Apple event at its headquarters in Cupertino, California, CEO Steve Jobs launches the company's new iPhone App Store. Third-party developers can build software for the device and have it distributed via the App Store and iTunes.

  • Nvidia chip with Java allows 3D modeling on cell phones

    At the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco, Ken Russell and Sven Gothel of Sun Microsystems explain how the Nvidia APX2500 chip allows developers to write Java apps on a desktop and run them directly to cell phones. Users will be able to play games and navigate cities in 3D using...

  • Salesforce.com apps for the Apple iPhone

    At Apple's official launch of the iPhone software development kit, Chuck Dietrich, Salesforce.com vice president of mobile, demos new business software on the device. The tools let sales representatives manage applications such as analytics and business intelligence tools on the go. The Apple event took place at company headquarters in California.

Reviews (142)

  • Symbian opens source code

    Developers are to get access to the handheld operating system, in a move that the company hopes will encourage the creation of more applications.

  • VMware ThinApp 4

    ThinApp, previously known as Thinstall, offers a more streamlined and portable approach to new software roll-outs and development. Software developers and administrators of large numbers of workstations and or mobile workers are bound to benefit greatly from this software.

  • Apple iTunes 8

    Apple iTunes 8 is the industry standard for multimedia jukebox software and despite the need for a UI overhaul and some liposuction to remove the bloat, iTunes is a solid choice that most users will enjoy.

  • Apple iTunes 7

    iTunes 7 includes some great updates, like gapless playback, games downloads and a better interface, but Australian users so far miss out on the movie downloads available to American users.

  • Apple iPhone 3G (16GB)

    While parts of the iPhone 3G are superb, there are still some big features missing from this device. If you add up the extras the iPhone doesn't seem like a phone that everyone can afford.

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