Palm’s Ares WebOS tool allows for easy app dev
Palm will introduce a Web-based development environment for WebOS applications, called Ares, by the end of this year.
Ares got its first public demonstration on Thursday at the Open Mobile Summit conference in San Francisco. It is designed to make it easy for developers to pull various components [...]
Palm will introduce a Web-based development environment for WebOS applications, called Ares, by the end of this year.
Ares got its first public demonstration on Thursday at the Open Mobile Summit conference in San Francisco. It is designed to make it easy for developers to pull various components together in Javascript to build applications for the Palm Pre and Pixi, the two handsets that run Palm’s WebOS.
Microsoft sold over three times more copies of Windows 7 in the week surrounding the Oct. 22 launch than it did Vista during its opening days in 2007, a retail marketing research analyst said today.
For the week of Oct. 18-24, and including the large numbers of pre-orders that Microsoft and online retailers took starting last June, Windows 7 unit sales were 234 percent higher than Vista’s in its first days in January 2007, said Stephen Baker, an analyst with the NPD Group. “I would call it pretty good,” Baker said, “but I wouldn’t call it great.”
IBM announced on Thursday beta versions of new services aimed at developers who want to create and deploy applications on public and private clouds.
Like other vendors, such as Skytap, IBM is pushing cloud services as a way for programmers to get access to computing power quickly, something that can be difficult if many in-house projects are occurring and on-site computing resources are scarce. With the Smart Business Development and Test service, which runs on IBM’s public cloud, developers can get a working environment in minutes, according to the vendor.
With this week’s release of Verizon Wireless’ Droid phone comes the first real test of the potential for fragmentation with Android. The Droid will be the first phone to run Android 2.0. After it goes on sale Friday, there will be Android phones on the market running three different versions of the OS.
Social-networking sites MySpace and Facebook have apparently fixed coding errors that could have allowed an attacker access to all of their users’ data and photos.
The simple coding errors are alarming considering the extent to which social networks have gone to reassure their users that their data will be safe. The problem involved the way those sites handle requests for data from other domains, known as the “cross-domain policy.”
Google has decided to release as open source several of its key application development tools, hoping that they will prove useful for external programmers to build faster Web applications.
Google has used the tools in some of its most popular Web applications, including Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Maps, said Amit Agarwal, a Google product manager.
Steve Jobs has been down this year — the leave of absence, the liver transplant — and he’s been up — his triumphant return, Apple’s continued success.
Microsoft’s antitrust settlement offer to the European Commission needs minor, often cosmetic changes in order to restore fair competition to the market for Internet browsers, said some of the software giant’s main rivals Thursday.
Verizon has confirmed that customers will have the option of connecting a laptop to their new Motorola Droid smartphones, on sale tomorrow, using the phone as a wireless modem. The carrier won’t say exactly when customers can do this tethering but they are exact about what it will cost: typically, an extra $30 per month, doubling Droid-related data fees.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) has won a major victory over China’s biggest chip maker in a court case that could have wide ranging implications for the loser.
A jury at the Superior Court of California in Alameda County voted in favor of TSMC in the case against Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC). TSMC had sued SMIC in a case involving theft of trade secrets, patent infringement and breach of contract over a prior settlement between the two companies.
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