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Nokia Taps Replacement Handset Market With 6610
News The new 6610 will play an important role in attracting replacement buyers, but much will depend on software developers as once again, content will be king. The key to this, as Rundstrom believes, will be support from third-party software developers...
[June 17, 2002, 13:33]
Freenet Keeps File-trading Flame Burning
News With Monday's new release, the developers hope to start attracting a wider audience. Freenet has long been a kind of peer-to-peer promised land, with its developers promising technical features far beyond the simple file-swapping of networks like...
[October 28, 2002, 14:18]
Special Report: IBM's Team Remembers The Task
News We could see that the world was changing; Apple was attracting a lot of attention from IBM developers, and we wanted IBM developers to work on IBM products. Twenty years after helping change the direction of computing, participants in the project...
[August 12, 2001, 8:30]
Mozilla Release Could Trigger Battle Of The Browsers
News Ultimately, however, it decided the step is an important concession to attracting third-party developers that could create applications based on its technology. It made the risky move of releasing the software code for its Communicator browser to...
[April 12, 2002, 17:30]
Java Server Joins Open-source Candidates
News The key to application platform battles is attracting developers," Fricke said. The company is eager to build closer ties to open-source developers. Sun is already very competitive on price, but having the Java Enterprise System software available...
[July 16, 2004, 9:25]
Microsoft On Trial: Judge Quizzes MS Witness Over Testimony
News Thursday morning, he added: "I have seen no evidence that operating systems that are attractive have had difficulty attracting ISVs [software developers]. Schmalensee attacked testimony by previous government witnesses who claimed Microsoft's 95...
[January 22, 1999, 10:25]
Nokia And The Battle For Open Source's Soul
Leader Retaining those developers in an open-source world, and attracting more open-source developers, will now be the SF's challenge. The SF also automatically gains tens of thousands of developers, who have until now been working on Symbian, Series 60...
[June 24, 2008, 17:24]
Linux Everywhere: The Penguin Goes Mobile
News Another handheld device maker attracting notice is Handspring, a licensee of Palm's OS that was started by Palm's co-founders. Though the Linux iPAQ code is aimed at technical developers and not commercially available, Compaq's development marks a...
[June 29, 2000, 14:07]
Gnome Foundation Hires Timothy Ney
News The move, called Project Mono, is attracting developer support and skepticism that Microsoft will tolerate an open source version of its development environment. Skeptics of the move, including veteran Apache developer Brian Behlendorf, point out...
[August 24, 2001, 8:30]
Programmers: Coming Out Of The Back Room
News I suppose as a company Avanade looks at attracting new people to the organisation who have a passion for technology -- whether they're a systems engineer, a systems developer, or an HR consultant," Withers said.
[March 27, 2002, 10:16]
Sun To Boost Solaris' Firepower Against Linux
News Large companies including IBM, HP and even Microsoft recognise the benefits of open-source software: it can boost projects by attracting outside programmers, tighten the link between programmers and those who use the software and build new...
[November 18, 2004, 15:20]
Linux Desktop: Closer Than You Think
News We're happy to bring people to Linux with really cool games," said Plant, adding that games are key to attracting increased attention from desktop developers. While KDE is now ready for prime time, many developers at LinuxWorld said they were...
[August 13, 1999, 9:17]
Microsoft Hopes To Catch Java Developers In .Net
News Microsoft has released a new programming tool aimed at attracting Java developers to the company's .Net software strategy. Sun in March raised concerns about Visual J#.Net in its private antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, charging that Microsoft...
[July 1, 2002, 13:45]
Sun To Distribute Chips
News Sun plans to eliminate the existing upfront licensing fee for its microprocessor designs in hopes of attracting a broad new community of developers. Developers who license the technology will be free to modify Sun's designs and to incorporate them...
[March 3, 1999, 10:46]
Palm Extends A Hand To Developers
News The handheld maker will also offer an online training programme as part of its effort to continue attracting new developers for the Palm OS platform. Palm announced on Tuesday that it is bolstering relations with its third-party software developers...
[October 23, 2001, 14:33]
Microsoft May Delay Xbox Online Service
News But in a confidential document distributed to games developers at a Japanese briefing this week, Microsoft says it will focus its investment on attracting core 18 to 30-year-old games players before it ramps up online services.
[March 29, 2001, 12:02]
Sun's Fortran Replacement Goes Open Source
News What is hard — very hard, in fact — is attracting a substantial portion of developers to that language," said RedMonk analyst Stephen O'Grady. Sun Microsystems took a new open source step last week, enlisting the outside world's help in an attempt...
[January 15, 2007, 14:33]
Revamped Macromedia Site Irks Customers
News A redesign of software maker Macromedia's main Web site is attracting criticism from customers because it doesn't work with some browsers, including Apple Computer's much-hyped Safari. Al Ramadan, an executive vice president at Macromedia, said...
[March 11, 2003, 7:45]
Mozilla Launches Bug-spotting Competition
News Markham called the 200,000-bug milestone an indication of Mozilla's success in attracting volunteers. In a posting to three newsgroups devoted to the Netscape-hatched open-source browser, including "netscape.public.mozilla.general," Mozilla staff...
[November 6, 2002, 13:52]
Firefox Beats Million-download Deadline
News Months before the preview release of version 1.0, Firefox had begun attracting users, prizes and buzz. With Microsoft having abandoned development of standalone IE, and with Firefox getting an increasingly warm reception from Web surfers and...
[September 21, 2004, 8:00]
