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Microsoft makes ambitious carbon neutral pledge

Microsoft has made an ambitious pledge to be carbon neutral from July 1, the start of its 2012 financial year.
Apple is rejecting iOS apps that use Dropbox SDK

Apple has reportedly been rejecting developer's iOS apps that use the Dropbox SDK.
Oracle releases upgrades to standard Java, JavaFX

The company is making available Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 7 Update 4 and JavaFX 2.1. Java developers, Oracle said, can download Oracle's JDK, which includes the JavaFX SDK for MacOS X from the Oracle Technology Network. Java SE 7 Update 4 and JavaFX 2.1 run on Windows, too. The company plans to release a consumer version of Java SE 7, complete with the Java Runtime Environment, for Mac OS X later this year.
Box API upgraded to make it easier for developers and more powerful

Box has given its API (application programming interface) a makeover so that developers will have an easier time building and integrating applications with its software, and have those applications do more than is currently possible.
Microsoft teams up with Telefónica to support tech startups

Microsoft has agreed to provide tools, knowledge and technical training for projects supported by Wayra, Telefónica?s accelerator programme for technology startups.
Linus Torvalds shortlisted for 2012 Millennium Technology Prize

Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds has been shortlisted by the Technology Academy Finland for its 2012 Millennium Technology Prize, worth over ?1 million (£820,000).
Sony releases software developer tools for PlayStation Suite

Sony has released a set of programming tools for its PlayStation Suite, a new push to expand the PlayStation platform beyond the company's own gaming consoles, the electronics firm's game division said Thursday.
Amazon advises Android developers on how to protect code

Amazon Appstore for Android developers should consider obfuscating their code if they are concerned about their applications being reverse engineered, the company said yesterday.
Oracle said Sun acquisition was a mistake, HP claims

Oracle decided on an aggressive strategy against Hewlett-Packard's Itanium servers after sales of competing Sun's Sparc servers had been in a free fall, and Oracle's executives stated internally that the company's 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems was a mistake, HP said in a filing Monday in its dispute with Oracle over the porting of its software to the Itanium platform.
Google-Oracle trial over Java licence starts today

Oracle and Google are due in court today for the start of an eight-week jury trial that could have significant implications for developers of Android applications, as well as potentially for developers of other software.

Latest Features

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.
The dangers of embedded system security

Experts say embedded device manufacturers too often lack maturity when it comes to designing secure embedded systems.
Slow Flashback Trojan response is Apple's "Adobe moment"

Apple could be experiencing an ?Adobe moment? over its handling of the Flashback Trojan, with security companies heaping criticism on the company for its slerotic response.
Passion for location data spawns balloons, art photos and 'experiential maps'

Amid the excited rhetoric about the profit potential in location data, the Where 2012 conference this week also exhibited another sign of a truly hot technology: passion projects with no commercial value at all.
Rethinking software development, inspection and testing

Setting the Scene - Where Formal Inspections Were Born: The early 1970s were a bit like the old Monty Python Skit "The Four Yorkshiremen," having a reel-to-reel tape drive was "luxury" and most people still had physical punched cards. Robert C. Martin, a co-author of the Agile Manifesto, described this era in his book The Clean Coder
How to get your enterprise out of the mobility stone age

Consumers relish in their cool gadgets at home and there are new apps to try on a daily basis. Then there's work. Same black laptop. Same BlackBerry. Same applications. It's been a long time since there's been anything radically new to get excited about at the office.
Your IT security action plan for 2012

Rather than a comprehensive list of everything an IT security organisation should plan on doing in the new year, I'm going to share with you some of the things that many probably haven't even considered for their 2012 action lists.
Five reasons agents are wrong for application performance management

Despite rapid evolution in the application performance management (APM) market, few enterprise IT organisations would say they have sufficiently solved their application performance problems. If anything, the complexity challenges posed by virtualisation, agile development practices, multi-tier application architectures and other IT mega-trends are outpacing the capabilities of legacy APM products.
Touch-oriented apps: A developer's guide

User experience and UI nuances pose the biggest challenge to tap into gesture-savvy iOS, Android, and Windows 8
Windows 8 could tempt tablet developers over to Microsoft

Microsoft's emphasis on touch cited as new opportunity for developers looking to target tablets in the post-PC era.

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