IDG News Service - Research In Motion has introduced the BlackBerry Dev Alpha C, a smartphone developers can use to test their applications and get ready for the launch of the BlackBerry 10 QWERTY device next year. The company also said ...
Tags: BlackBerry Dev Alpha C, smartphone, BlackBerry 10 QWERTY device
Tizen 2.0, the open-source smartphone operating system, is now available as an alpha release with an accompanying software development kit (SDK), the Tizen project announced on Tuesday. The release lends credence to rumors that project ...
Tags: software, Computer Products, Samsung, Tizen based smartphone
Oracle will introduce on Tuesday a version of embedded Java intended to boost the platform's prominence in the realm of networked devices. The company also will roll out a middleware stack geared for the embedded world. With the Oracle ...
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Apple will not include a YouTube app in iOS 6,the next operating system for the iPhone and iPad,the company confirmed yesterday. The app has been an integral part of iOS since the 2007 launch of the first-generation iPhone.YouTube is ...
Network World - As of June 2012, there were 237,000 iPad apps listed in the App store, many of them priced at 99 cents or even free. Yet very few of them let companies actually do business -- take customer orders, update inventory, submit ...
Tags: iPad apps, App store, IT groups, IT industry
PC World - Lazarus (so named because it's an older project, reborn) is a full-featured graphical IDE for Free Pascal, an open-source implementation of Object Pascal. While the Lazarus developers politely ask that it not be called a Delphi ...
Tags: Lazarus, graphical IDE, Object Pascal, computer
IDG News Service - A tool for testing if web application firewalls (WAFs) are vulnerable to around 150 protocol-level evasion techniques was released at the Black Hat USA 2010 security conference on Wednesday. The tool and the research ...
Tags: web application firewalls, Black Hat USA 2010, cyber security
Microsoft has blocked a popular work-around that let users boot directly to the Windows 8 desktop, a co-author of an upcoming book on the operating system confirmed today. "Microsoft made some changes to Windows that prevent the .scf hack ...
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IDG News Service - Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added PowerShell to the management options for its cloud, in a move that reaches out to the Windows community. Part of Amazon's Microsoft push is to let developers and administrators manage ...
Tags: Amazon Web Services, PowerShell, cloud, AWS services
IDG News Service - Microsoft is updating its C++ compiler for its Visual Studio 12 integrated development environment, or IDE, so that Windows application developers can use parts of the latest version of the programming language, C++11. ...
Tags: Microsoft, C++compiler, Windows application, programming language
A unique 3D spin on the classic "match three" arcade experience, this addicting game charges players to go against an uber monster cube made of smaller multi-colored monster cubes. Monster Juice, an established mobile game developer, is ...
Tags: Monster Juice, Brazil, application, electronical development
Infoworld - When it comes to virtualization on the desktop, two products stand front and center: VMware Workstation and VirtualBox. The former is the long-standing original keeper of the flame, from the company that gave us PC-centric ...
Tags: VMware Workstation, VirtualBox, PC centric, virtualization technology
IDG News Service - Microsoft's Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 is now available for download. The update allows users to develop applications for Windows XP and more thoroughly test their work. The previous version of Microsoft's development ...
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Computerworld-Several major software companies,including Microsoft and Symantec,today kicked off what they called"International Technology Upgrade Week"in an attempt to persuade users to keep their code current. Upgrades have been hotly ...
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IDG News Service - It looks like a bull, trots at the speed of a wolf and carries equipment like a pack mule, but does it have a place on the battlefield of the future Researchers are conducting a two-year study of a robot that promises to ...
Tags: DARPA, Robotic Mule, four-legged robot, LS3 program