Programming Languages

Review: AppMobi XDK brings more style than substance to iPhone, Android development

The beauty of AppMobi's slick, cloud-based IDE for building cross-platform mobile apps runs only skin deep

CloudStack, OpenStack lure supporters, one by one

At Interop, both open source cloud projects roll out list of backers

C keeps lead over Java, but index’s accuracy is questioned

Important PHP developer dismissed validity of Tiobe language survey, which has C continuing to displace Java as most popular language

Microsoft is to Monopolist as Apple is to….

Apple patches Safari, blocks outdated Flash Player

Yanks Flash plug-ins older than the November 2010 version from Safari browser

Judge declines to eject Google’s ‘fair use’ defense from Android trial

Ruling is a a minor setback to Oracle and means the issue of fair use will likely be put to a new jury

Google: Android developers never looked at Sun’s patents

Google's Android chief testifies on the stand in week four of the Oracle-Google trial

Open source Java moving to Linux, AIX on PowerPC

SAP-steered proposal brings OpenJDK to new platforms

Google simplifies use of Analytics API

A new tool allows developers to create dashboards without having to learn Analytics APIs

Amazon Web Services aims to make life easier for Windows developers

Elastic Beanstalk helps developers using the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio roll out ASP.Net applications in Amazon's cloud