Symbian keen to ignite USB development interest
Blog As welcome as USB was at the time of its introduction in 1996, it has arguably now become such a part of the fabric of the technology landscape that we generally fail to get very excited about it -... [01 Dec 2008]
Sun warns of bugs as it releases MySQL 5.1
News MySQL's founder has released version 5.1 of the open-source database software, but simultaneously warned of a number of bugs present in the new features that still need to be fixed [01 Dec 2008]
Modular kitchen systems
Blog One of the joys of moving into a new house is fitting a new kitchen, and I have learnt a lot about kitchens over the past few days. When you're fitting kitchens, modularity is king. I had the... [29 Nov 2008]
Back to school with Sun
Blog This week I’ve been able to attend a Java SE training course at Sun’s Camberley campus. The primary reason I am here is that my better half is studying the course, so I figured this would be a... [27 Nov 2008]
Get your filthy hands off my code!
Blog For some years now (well the last half decade at least) various vendors from the Business Intelligence space to the pure-play development behemoths have been talking about bringing in the influence... [25 Nov 2008]
Microsoft details plans for Visual Studio and .NET
Q&A Visual Studio chiefs Jason Zander and Matt Carter set out the company's manifesto for data democracy [21 Nov 2008]
Keep your code clean to make it green
Blog I think the unwritten law of blogging states that if you hadn’t particularly been thinking about a topic and you get one phone call and three e-mails from different sources focused on the same... [21 Nov 2008]
Sun updates NetBeans with PHP support
News Version 6.5 of the open-source NetBeans IDE has support for the PHP scripting language and a preview of Python support [20 Nov 2008]
Esperanto attitude needed for next-gen application developme...
Blog I am just in the process of upgrading from the 2004 version to Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 (why on earth do we Mac users only get a look in every four years!) and I’m wondering whether to take... [19 Nov 2008]
Adobe to bring full Flash to smartphones
News Powerful new mobile phones will get full-on Flash Player 10, not just the lightweight version, although Flash on the iPhone remains on the wish list [18 Nov 2008]
Qualcomm serves up Brew SDK to developers
News Qualcomm has introduced a software developer kit for its Brew Mobile Platform, bringing Flash and applications to mid-range mobiles [17 Nov 2008]
The collaboration conundrum: what’s wrong with REPLY ALL any...
Blog I’ve been trying to follow the development of a few companies that offer online collaboration tools in the form of so-called ‘secure online workspaces’ for project development. Of course I’m... [17 Nov 2008]
I wandered lonely as an unmanaged cloud service
Blog Would you be suspicious if a piece of software claimed to be the first product capable of monitoring the “entire” enterprise infrastructure, bridging the gap between the data centre and the cloud?... [12 Nov 2008]
Photos: Microsoft's new parallel programming toolkit 
Photo Microsoft Concurrency and Coordination Runtime and Decentralized Software Services Toolkit 2008 is a spin-off from its work on robotics. We got a first look at PDC 2008. [11 Nov 2008]
Two development streams needed for next mobile killer-applic...
Blog I’m trying to cut through the mobile madness out there and distill some thoughts on where, globally speaking, the next generation of killer mobile apps will develop. Why am I doing this? Well,... [10 Nov 2008]
Oasis forms ODF committee
News The body that maintains the OpenDocument Format has formed a committee to promote interoperability [04 Nov 2008]
More on CRM meets Web 2.0: Salesforce.com and Facebook
Blog Just a few weeks after LinkedIn announced an investment from SAP, Facebook and Salesforce.com buddy up. If you don't follow Salesforce.com, it's their Dreamforce expo this week, where users and... [03 Nov 2008]
Microsoft unveils Live Framework
News At the Professional Developers Conference, the software maker unveiled the developer component of Live Mesh [03 Nov 2008]
Can we measure digital mood?
Blog I'm currently working on a project to dig into the accessibility issues that web designers need to consider when building new sites. Among the companies I am talking to is Keynote Systems who label... [03 Nov 2008]
NXP to open up Mifare APIs for mobile software
News The chip company will offer APIs for mobile software development for its Mifare chipsets in the coming months [31 Oct 2008]
