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WWDC 2012 forecast: Cloudy with a chance of new MacBooks

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference is less than one month away and we're guessing there will be new MacBook Pros and personal video sync (not iTunes purchases) to iCloud. But how many people will share via iCloud when so many popular alternatives already exist including Facebook, Flickr, Google+, Instagram, Picasa, Dropbox and Windows Live?
Xamarin adds Android graphical designer to Microsoft Visual Studio

Mono for Android SDK offers app-designing for both Microsoft's and Xamarin's IDEs
Firefox 13 speeds up due to Mozilla's new 'Project Snappy'

When Mozilla launched the beta version of Firefox 13 late last month, it was already clear that faster speeds were on the way, thanks to the fact that the SPDY protocol had been enabled by default.
CERN automates application development with Electric Cloud

The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) is using automation technology from Electric Cloud to accelerate the application development efforts of more than 10,000 users of its ROOT software.
Samsung Omnia M Windows Phone launched with 4-inch display

Samsung Electronics has announced the Samsung Omnia M, a Windows Phone with a 4-inch Super AMOLED display that will first become available in Europe.
C is still leading over Java, but Tiobe index's accuracy is questioned

An important PHP developer dismissed the validity of Tiobe's language survey, which has C continuing to displace Java as the most popular language
Mozilla blasts Microsoft for anticompetitive behaviour with Windows RT

Mozilla has accused Microsoft of withholding APIs necessary to build a competitive browser for Windows RT, saying Microsoft's behaviour "may have antitrust implications."
Virgin Media seeks talented games developers for 100 Day Game Project

Amateur games developers are being encouraged to enter Virgin Media?s ?100 Day Game Project?, which aims to find the brightest talent in mobile game design and creation.
Mozilla targets memory leaks in Firefox add-ons

Just months after Mozilla put its Firefox browser on a memory ?diet,? it announced that it's doing much the same thing for Firefox add-ons as well.
Google simplifies use of Analytics API in new dashboard library

Google has developed a tool to automate the creation of custom-reporting dashboards for its Analytics website-usage tracking service, the company said on Wednesday.

Latest Features

Mageia Linux 2.0 - Six key features coming to new OS

Mandriva Linux is a venerable distribution with numerous advantages to recommend it, but it's no secret that the software's French publisher has been facing tough times.
Cloud APIs ? Extending SOA and Web 2.0 architectures

Cloud APIs are emerging as a successful means of making cloud-based data centre resources and applications available to an array of web-connected devices in a flexible and cost-effective way.
Crowdfunding - The latest way to get your project funded

Programmers, manufacturers and developers who want to realise their creative vision without signing onerous contracts or relinquishing rights to their intellectual property now have an alternative to venture capitalists. Crowdfunding - the collection of funds directly from a target audience - has taken off. Small donations are adding up to hundreds of millions of dollars, many of them channeled through a service called Kickstarter.
Does BlackBerry still have the juice?

Research in Motion faces huge challenges in its battle to survive and they'll all be on attendees' minds at this week at RIM's annual BlackBerry World conference in Orlando. What will also be on our minds: the ticking clock counting down the time RIM has left to turn around its fortunes.
Google's BigQuery offers infrastructure to crunch big data

Google today announced the general availability of its cloud-based BigQuery Service, an online analytical processing (OLAP) system designed for crunching terabyte-scale datasets using the search engine giant's infrastructure.
Developer support for BlackBerry 10 key to RIM's future

HTML5 and RIM's larger development strategy will come into sharp focus at BlackBerry World in Orlando. This year, it includes the heavily promoted BlackBerry 10 Jam, an intensive, developer-focused agenda for the new operating system, which has not yet been released in final form.
Microsoft System Center 2012 switch simplifies virtual systems management duties

Switching from VMware to Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualisation environment is saving money for two businesses that are also using Microsoft's System Center 2012 to manage and monitor applications and the infrastructure that supports them.
Google Drive means 'personal cloud' will soon overshadow the PC

With the launch of Google Drive, the new cloud storage service unveiled by Google, mainstream tech users will soon find themselves engaging in cloud storage and file synchronisation among mobile, laptop and desktop systems.
Could it now be time to de-Flash your website?

Developers agree that there is no other application that can directly replace Flash and do what Flash does as well as it does. And that includes HTML5 - the only seriously suggested substitute for Flash - despite all its promise.
What's the fastest browser? Maybe you're measuring it wrong

Among all those very scientific benchmarks we forget one factor: the user. Our human eye is incapable of distinguishing the 221 ms load time of a JavaScript applet in IE9 from the 220 ms load time in Firefox 17. Do we even notice if Chrome opens a website in 778 ms versus IE's 953 ms? Humans think in seconds, not milliseconds.

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