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Developers rush to exploit social-app demand
News The developer interest in social platforms stems from their goal to attain consumer attention, with popular social networks providing an easy platform to do so. Although they are created by different website-owners, both tools were released with an...
[March 10, 2009, 8:23]
Sun to shed up to 6,000 jobs
News In addition, Sun announced that it would restructure its software business to form three groups: Application Platform Software, Systems Platforms and Cloud Computing & Developer Platforms. The new Cloud Computing & Developer Platforms group will...
[November 14, 2008, 15:35]
Microsoft realigns software developer units
News The Developer and Platform Evangelism Division will include Microsoft's software development tools, its Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Web site, training courses, the corporate Web site and all marketing directed at programmers.
[October 17, 2001, 11:30]
Red Hat: Cloud won't drive open-source adoption
News He added that this would not stunt developers from creating good apps, because interoperability between different platforms will give rise to a plethora of tools to seed a developer's creativity. However, he noted that this focus on open standards...
[March 11, 2009, 8:33]
Intel breathes new life into desktops
News This is one less thing (corporations) have to worry about," Louis Burns, vice president of Intel's desktop platforms group, said at the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose, California on Wednesday. At the last Developer Forum, Intel President Paul...
[February 21, 2003, 9:01]
Chinese developers place confidence in open source
News ZDNet UK's Developer News Section delivers the latest headlines together with the best UK jobs, right to your browser. Have your say on all developer topics. Windows hosts are currently the prime platforms targeted by Chinese developers.
[July 25, 2002, 7:53]
Free office suite coming to the Mac
News The developer release runs on Mac OS X or Darwin, OS X's core, which includes elements from open-source projects Mach and BSD. We have been working together in a tight, efficient ensemble, and have now something we can use," said Ed Peterlin...
[May 8, 2002, 14:47]
Are 'Baby Bills' in your future?
News But as a result of a late March reshuffling, Microsoft added its Developer division employees and products into the Platforms unit. It lumps together its desktop applications and developer tools numbers.
[April 25, 2000, 9:00]
What's .Net got for the mobile developer?
News We wanted to make it possible for a typical Visual Studio .Net developer to do everything they needed from inside the IDE, [and] keep the development experience the same for all platforms," Kaim said.
[January 29, 2003, 8:43]
Sun to match Red Hat pricing model
News This summer, Sun will begin selling programming tools called compilers to write software that runs on Solaris for x86 chips, with a Linux version coming later, said Rich Green, vice president of Sun's Developer Platforms Group.
[April 1, 2004, 8:50]
Java on mobiles: Write once, run... once?
News Mobile games developer Morpheme's co-founder and managing director, Matt Spall, said the company has to choose very carefully which platforms it develops for. A developer who wants to write a game for every device would have to do 24 versions just...
[September 3, 2002, 10:41]
A Year Ago: Gaming's battle for your living room
News The winners will be those platforms with the most developer support. In addition, without something to show off soon, previous developer allies may begin to cool relationships. In a market that has had difficulty supporting three platforms, adding...
[March 8, 2001, 6:01]
Gaming's battle for your living room
News The winners will be those platforms with the most developer support. In addition, without something to show off soon, previous developer allies may begin to cool relationships. In a market that has had difficulty supporting three platforms, adding...
[March 8, 2000, 16:49]
Qualcomm courts European developers for GSM Brew-up
News Scott Lahman, president of publishing at wireless games developer Jamdat, said the platform is better than Java for developers because Sun's platform has become diluted, and is not as rigid as it first promised: "There has been some breakdown in...
[February 12, 2004, 16:25]
Stand-alone Flash Player comes to Pocket PC
News Besides the player, which can be downloaded from Pocket PC 2002 device manufacturers' Web sites, Macromedia is offering a developer kit including optimised user interface components. ZDNet UK's Developer News Section delivers the latest headlines...
[April 1, 2003, 12:54]
Symbian rallies developers against Microsoft
News Symbian chief executive David Levin kicked off the company's annual developer conference on Wednesday with a call to arms, with Microsoft as the clear -- if unstated -- public enemy number one. Microsoft even timed its own mobility developer...
[April 24, 2002, 9:30]
Developers get beta SDK for Atom
News Intel on Wednesday launched a test version of its software developer kit (SDK) for the Atom Developer Programme, part of the company's plan to sell Atom software on behalf of developers via a network of application stores.
[December 3, 2009, 15:50]
Adobe takes Flash to smartphones
News The announcement was made on Monday, to coincide with Adobe's MAX 2009 developer conference, which runs this week in Los Angeles. A public developer beta of the software is scheduled for release later this year for Windows Mobile and Palm WebOS on...
[October 5, 2009, 12:57]
Vodafone to open cross-platform app store
News Vodafone's spokesman added that the release of the billing API would take "the administrative burden of charging" away from the developer — apps will simply be charged to the user's Vodafone bill. He added that the revenue split for applications...
[May 12, 2009, 17:36]
Sun's Microsoft suit: The fine print
News ZDNet UK's Developer News Section delivers the latest headlines together with the best UK jobs, right to your browser. Have your say on all developer topics. By eliminating the ability of alternative platforms to compete with Microsoft's Windows...
[March 11, 2002, 9:37]
