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Application Development news, reviews and analysis across the software lifecycle (application lifecycle management or ALM) covering enterprise software development. Topics include enterprise application development and desktop software development using a number of platforms, including Windows, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Microsoft .NET, PHP, C++, Python, Java, and Unix. development. Other areas of coverage include development technologies like JBoss, Spring, Eclipse and NetBeans, parallel programming and concurrency, development for mobile devices and smartphones, and the developer, designer/developer workflow.
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High court takes on the question of just what is patentable with business method patents coming under scrutiny. The court's ultimate opinion -- due in June -- could invalidate thousands of software patents.
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DeviceAnywhere, a provider of mobile application testing technology, and the Symbian Foundation recently launched the Symbian Virtual Developer Lab (VDL).
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With BlackBerry 5.0-based devices like the Bold 9700 and Storm2 finally here, Research in Motion customers that have already upgraded their Blackberry Enterprise Server infrastructure to Version 5.0 can start fully testing the new features. Here, eWEEK Labs demonstrates a few of these new capabilities.
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The Microsoft SDK for Facebook Platform software development kit is designed to provide developers with a way to quickly and easily leverage the various features of the Facebook Platform through the Facebook Stream API with a range of samples, controls and templates.
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Facebook has amassed well over 300 million users in its five-plus years of social networking life. But those users didn't join overnight; some of them joined last week, or last year, and they may not be acquainted with even the most basic features and functionality of the leading social network platform. To help those folks, eWEEK has tapped into the Facebook blog for tips on learning the Facebook ropes. This obviously won't cover everything, so you can also just go to the Facebook Help Center here.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation says it is tired of what it calls bogus software patents. While Congress dithers over patent reform, the EFF is taking action against the software patents it considers are suppressing noncommercial and small-business innovation or limiting free expression online. To combat these annoying patents, the EFF has targeted its own Top 10 egregious patents. eWEEK presents the EFF's most bogus software patents.
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Based on tests of new beta versions, neither Firefox 3.6 nor Google Chrome 4.0 will be major steps forward for the browsers. The only significant new feature in the Chrome 4.0 beta is Bookmark Sync. The Firefox 3.6 beta boasts more new features than the Chrome 4.0 beta, but none are groundbreaking.
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Microsoft announces that it will purchase the Teamprise technology and other Teamprise-related assets from SourceGear to deliver cross-platform support for Microsoft's Visual Studio tool set.
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Beginning Nov. 9, sales associates for Best Buy Mobile will install Google Mobile App on all BlackBerry, Microsoft Windows Mobile and Nokia S60 smartphones through the Walk Out Working program, a free in-store smartphone setup. The deal makes Best Buy the first retailer in the U.S. to distribute Google Mobile App on smartphones sold in-store. However, Best Buy won't install Google Mobile App on the Motorola Droid or HTC Eris because it isn't available on Android. Google Mobile App support is missing in action on the iPhone, too.
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eBay settles lawsuits with Joltid and Joost in a $1.9 billion deal that gives Skype ownership over all software previously licensed from Joltid and paves the way for a group of investors to acquire the majority of the company. Joltid and Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, who had earlier tried to buy Skype back from eBay, will join the investor group, contributing Joltid software and making a capital investment in exchange for a 14 percent stake in Skype. Silver Lake and fellow investors Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board will grab 56 percent of Skype, with eBay retaining the remaining 30 percent.
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Reframe It says Google's Sidewiki service is too close to its own Web annotation service for comfort. Reframe It CEO Bobby Fishkin argues that Sidewiki's features mimic Reframe It's right down to the icon buttons. Google denies any wrongdoing. Meanwhile, an intellectual property attorney says Reframe It could make a patent or copyright infringement complaint against Google, depending on its IP. eWEEK has published side-by-side comparisons of the two Web apps on Google Watch.
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Caspio launches a search engine optimization (SEO) service and the latest version of cloud-based Web application platform Bridge Version 6.5, aimed at cost-conscious businesses.
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IBM announces two new solutions for developers to use to create and deliver software in both public and private cloud environments.
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As Verizon Wireless launches the Motorola Droid smartphone Nov. 6 for $199 with a two-year contract after a $100 rebate, it does so as the most heavily hyped smartphone since the gadget it will chase, the iPhone 3GS. Reviews have been streaming steadily into the blogosphere as intrepid gadget hawks from Boy Genius Report, Engadget and Gizmodo have covered every nuance of the gadget. But there haven't been too many sanctioned reviews until Nov. 5, when gadget gurus Walt Mossberg (paywall) of the Wall Street Journal and David Pogue of The New York Times put their first impressions of the Droid online. eWEEK takes the pros and cons of the Droid from Mossberg and Pogue point by point.
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At its PayPal X Innovate 2009 developer conference, PayPal issued a challenge to developers to solve the fundamental problems people face when trying to pay or get paid.
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Ext JS is a cross-browser JavaScript library for building rich Internet applications, Version 3.0 of Ext JS makes it very easy to create GUIs that run in the browser using JavaScript.
Mojo, Palm's software development kit for WebOS, includes an easy-to-install plug-in that lets developers work within the Eclipse SDK.
The AWS Toolkit for Eclipse is a plug-in that allows developers to develop and deploy software to the Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure. The plug-in provides full integration into Eclipse, offering complete control over managing remote instances, uploading code, running code remotely and even debugging remotely without leaving Eclipse.
eWEEK Labs finds Eclipse has greatly matured from its early, much slower days. Today, the application development platform can aptly be described as powerful and feature-rich.
Processors with multiple cores are commonplace these days, creating a need for new tools that make parallel programming easier. To help programmers write code that makes use of multiple cores comes Intel Parallel Studio, which works hand-in-hand with Microsoft Visual Studio. During eWEEK Labs' tests, Intel Parallel Studio effectively identified and helped remediate problems in code, enabling developers to fine-tune programs for use with multiple cores.
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