HomeDevelopment

Development

Windows 8 Equally Prepared for Tablets, PCs: Sinofsky

Ahead of September's BUILD conference, Microsoft is taking steps to position its upcoming Windows 8 as a platform meant equally for tablets and traditional...

Motorola Pro+ ‘Gingerbread’ Phone Targets BlackBerry Crowd Overseas

Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI), which is being acquired by Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) for $12.5 billion, introduced the Motorola Pro+ Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" smartphone as an alternative...

Samsung Galaxy S II Aims to Raise Bar for Google Android

Samsung might find itself in a legal brawl with Apple over alleged patent infringement, but the manufacturer still seems determined to take on the...

Apple’s iPhone 5 Draws Sprint Employees’ No Comment

Sprint is apparently ordering its employees to deflect questions about Apple's next iPhone appearing on the carrier, according to a leaked internal memo.A recent...

HP TouchPad Revived Zombie-Style for Limited Run

Hewlett-Packard's TouchPad apparently isn't as dead as everyone thought.When HP killed its tablet earlier this month, slashing the price by hundreds of dollars in...

Microsoft’s Windows Phone Apps May Be Benefiting From HP, Google

Windows Phone now boasts more than 30,000 applications, according to the Windows Phone App List, which breaks down statistics related to Microsoft's smartphone platform.Moreover,...

Java Creator Gosling Leaves Google for Liquid Robotics

Java creator James Gosling has left Google to become chief software architect at Liquid Robotics.In a message to eWEEK, Gosling said leaving Google was...

BlackBerry 7 OS

BlackBerry 7 OS RIMs newest line of smartphones runs the BlackBerry 7 OS, an updated operating system with preinstalled applications such as the enhanced BlackBerry...

VMware Launches Database as a Service

VMware has announced vFabric Data Director, a new platform to deliver a Database as a Service solution for the enterprise.Announced at the company's VMworld...

Apple’s Steve Jobs Rocked the IT Industry: 10 Ways He Did It

When Apple's Steve Jobs announced last week thathe was stepping down as CEO of the company he founded to take over as chairman of...