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While late to the game, Windows Phone 7 came out of the gate as a formidable and serious contender to iPhone, Android and BlackBerry. The Windows Phone is more enterprise-ready than the iPhone has ever been, without compromising on consumer friendliness. Rather than focus on sexy hardware, Microso...
Google has introduced a new image format to help speed up the performance of websites. WebP (pronounced "weppy") reduces the file size of images by 40 percent, the company claims. Images make up 65 percent of the bytes transmitted per Web page, according to Google. WebP was designed to improve the c...
Website developers and localization experts who help ready international websites in multiple languages know that the quality of source content is a major factor of success in website translation and localization -- but often they just have to work with whatever source content comes through the door...
With smartphones becoming ubiquitous and more and more people using mobile devices both at work and at home, enterprises are increasingly looking to make use of mobile applications. Small and medium-sized businesses are apparently beginning to pick up on this trend, and many of them are turning to d...
Microsoft released the Windows Phone 7 software development kit on the Web Thursday, just over two weeks after the WinPho7 platform had been released to manufacturing. This release is in English only, but versions in French, Italian, German and Spanish will be available in "the next couple of weeks,...
HP on Wednesday announced a restricted beta release of webOS 2.0, the operating system it acquired when it purchased Palm earlier this year. This is open to developers belonging to Palm's Early Access program. The beta adds several new features, and apps built with it will be released to all carrier...
Like any other winner-take-all industry, the digital music world is not immune to trendy tech solutions that come and go. Hybrid apps, however, are one trend that's here to stay. Software developers in almost every industry have been meeting their customers' needs for years with early versions of ...
Over the past decade, software development has undergone several transformations that have led to the new practices and methodologies such as agile development. Combining emerging technologies -- including dynamic language platforms, cloud computing, and agile development practices -- offers a parad...
Google announced on Wednesday that it has killed off Google Wave, the sharing and communication Web app it kicked off last year. Wave "has not seen the user adoption we would have liked," wrote Urs Holzle, Google's senior vice president of operations. Google won't continue developing Wave as a stand...
Microsoft has put its Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system out for technical preview. "Starting today, thousands of prototype phones from Asus, LG and Samsung are making their way into the hands of developers over the next few weeks," Terry Myerson, corporate vice president, Windows phone enginee...
HP has delayed the launch of its Android tablet device, All Things Digital reported on Thursday. The tablet had been scheduled for release at the end of the year. It's believed HP is pushing back work on the Android device in order to focus on a tablet running webOS, the operating system it acquired...
Microsoft on Monday announced the release of the Windows Phone Developer Tools beta; this was followed on Tuesday with the announcement of WinPho7 integration with the Windows Live and Zune services. The moves come as Microsoft works to consolidate its mobile efforts around the Windows Phone 7 platf...
YouTube's decision to make its mobile Web site compatible with HTML5 may one day be viewed as a turning point in what is shaping up as an epic battle for control of the mobile device landscape. In unveiling the new site on Wednesday, YouTube said its goal is to give mobile device users the same vide...
Application development in the cloud requires special data models such as schema-less and sometimes typeless databases, and that could lead to a new battleground in which the major players such as Microsoft, IBM and HP will come out with their own data models and back-end platforms. "All the cloud i...
Toshiba on Monday unveiled the Libretto W100, a limited-edition ultra-mobile concept PC. It has dual touchscreens and runs Windows 7. The W100 is the latest in Toshiba's Libretto line of subnotebooks. It has two 7-inch diagonal multitouch displays with a resolution of 1,024 x 600 pixels and a six-mo...
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