Privacy problems and propagation of "virus-like" applications has led to a marked decline in the use of Facebook's developer platform, according to industry analysts Ovum.
Telstra announced today that it will be launching its own software as a service (SaaS) platform, incorporating applications from the largest vendors as well as smaller Australian developers.
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.
Sites like Facebook and Google, which have evolved into Web platforms, are the wave of the future, according to a panel of top executives at this week's iMeme: Thinkers of Tec conference.
The LiMo Foundation released the first full version of its mobile phone platform on Monday.
People were apparently switching their brains off before joining the 3G iPhone queues, so it's somewhat surprising that considering an appropriate amount of storage was quite a high priority for many buyers.
While there's not much that's more fun than stirring up Linux and Windows zealots into a frenzy of spite against each other, we thankfully finally seem to be approaching a more measured universe in which technology choices can be made based on suitability rather than preconception.
During a trip to the US four years ago, I rented a car fitted with an XM satellite radio which gave me well over 100 radio stations, each carrying a continuous stream of crystal-clear talk radio or music in a surprising array of genres.
Macs are banned from many government departments because there aren't any 'approved' applications to encrypt them. So why doesn't Apple CEO Steve Jobs do something about it?
Synchronising data between multiple computers is difficult and dangerous, which is why we get software to do it these days rather than attempting to manage all the file movements ourselves. But making the assumption that the software knows what it's doing can in itself be dangerous.
In Asia-Pacific, the J2EE application server market has remained dynamic, particularly as organisations demand lower price points, improved implementation services and support, and increased productivity.
Given the hype around anything with a single-letter prefix m-commerce, e-learning, iPhone last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android mobile phone platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.
Since lifting its university-only restrictions in September 2006, Facebook has become the poster child for social networks and attracted more than 65 million users. But will it survive 'the next big thing'?
The hardest part of creating a successful software application is often not the coding -- it's getting that product out to its intended market.
If the Mac and the PC are the yin and yang of the tech universe, then these two seeming opposites should be able to coexist harmoniously.
Here's how it looks when Google applications Gmail, Docs, Talk, and Calendar operate on the Salesforce platform. The two companies announced a joint cloud computing venture at a press event in San Francisco on Monday, April 14, 2008.
Here's a look at Sun Microsystems' new JavaFX application, with Flickr and Twitter feeds running in Facebook within the browser, dragged to the desktop, and then put on a mobile phone. Sun Microsystems executives Rich Green and Nandini Ramani showed the JavaFX environment at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco.
At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Mozilla Foundation Chairman Mitchell Baker talks about the company's plans to enter the smartphone market with Fennec, a mobile version of its Firefox browser. She also discusses how the new, open platform will encourage Web 2.0 application development.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, ZDNet director Josh Taylor looks at Microsoft's new surface computing platform, which includes applications for drawing, interacting with media, and manipulating photos that are instantly taken from a digital camera.
The latest bundle of mobile technologies from Intel arrives late and somewhat piecemeal, but delivers a useful set of incremental enhancements.
Short of setting up duplicate systems, testing new software can be a hairy exercise. Here's another way: use virtual OSes like VMWare and Virtual PC as your testing platform.
The lack of applications that can run on Itanium makes gauging the performance of software on the 64bit platform problematic. However, hardware-focused tests are possible.
Seeing or using the i560 is hardly a pulse-racing experience. People looking for a solid phone with navigation will find what they are looking for in the i560. Fashionistas should look elsewhere.
The StorCenter Pro NAS 450r is a generously-specified appliance running Windows Storage Server 2003. While it scores on performance, it's pricey and lacks capacity.
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