Latest job stats on technology adoption – Flash, Silverlight, iPhone,...
It is all very well expressing opinions on which technologies are hot and which are struggling, but what is happening in the real world? It is hard to get an accurate picture – surveys tend to have...
View ArticleWindows Phone 7 gets decent launch, Stephen Fry’s blessing
I was not able to attend the press conference for Windows Phone 7 in person but watched the live webcast from New York. I was unconvinced by the phrase “Always delightful, wonderfully mine” which...
View ArticleA useful Windows Phone 7 app in a couple of hours – Where’s my Train
I was interested to see that National Rail Enquiries has published a web service for its live departure boards. These give you reports on the next trains to depart from any given station, including...
View ArticleTen big tech trends from 2010
This was an amazing year for tech. Here are some of the things that struck me as significant. Sun Java became Oracle Java Oracle acquired Sun and set about imposing its authority on Java. Java is still...
View ArticleAppcelerator releases Titanium Mobile 1.6
Appcelerator has released Titanium Mobile 1.6, an update to its cross-platform app framework for Apple iOS and Google Android. The update adds 26 features for Android and 9 features for iOS. The...
View ArticleAppcelerator CEO on Titanium, Aptana and the future of mobile development
I met with Aptana CEO and co-founder Jeff Haynie at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month. Appcelerator’s main product is Titanium, an SDK which takes HTML and JavaScript source files and...
View ArticleAdobe announces Flash Builder for PHP, PhoneGap integration in Dreamweaver
Adobe has stepped up its support for mobile and Flash development with a couple of announcements today. The first is that Dreamweaver 5.5, part of the new Creative Suite 5.5, has integrated support for...
View ArticleAdobe announces Flash Builder for PHP, PhoneGap integration in Dreamweaver
Adobe has stepped up its support for mobile and Flash development with a couple of announcements today. The first is that Dreamweaver 5.5, part of the new Creative Suite 5.5, has integrated support for...
View ArticleBuilding a PhoneGap app for iPhone with Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5
After trying out Adobe’s new Dreamweaver CS5.5 for building a PhoneGap app for Google Android, I was keen to try the same for Apple iOS. In particular, I wanted to see if the performance problems with...
View ArticleHands On with RunRev LiveCode: rapid development for iOS, Android, Mac and...
RunRev LiveCode is a cross-platform development tool for Mac, Windows, Linux, Web, Apple iOS and, from this month, Google Android. It is an individualistic tool inspired by Apple’s original (but now...
View ArticleCheck out these images of Windows 8 – but where is Silverlight?
Microsoft’s Windows President Steven Sinofsky has shown off an early build of Windows 8 at the D9 conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. It turns out that the not-so subliminal messaging at the...
View ArticleHands On with Appcelerator Titanium Studio
I spent some time today trying out Appcelerator’s new Titanium Studio. Titanium is a cross-platform framework that lets you compile apps for Apple iOS, Google Android, RIM Blackberry, and desktop...
View ArticleDelphi for Windows, Mac and iOS: screenshots and video of cross-platform...
Embarcardero is drip-feeding information about its forthcoming RAD Studio XE2 in an annoying manner; nevertheless the product does look interesting and promises cross-platform native code apps for...
View ArticleA few observations on Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango”
I received a Windows Phone running version 7.5 “Mango” for review yesterday. Here are some initial observations; I am not going to call it a review after such as short time. There is still no screen...
View ArticlePCs down, Android up: astonishing figures from Gartner show shift to mobile
Want to know why Apple is suing Samsung over Android, or why Microsoft is re-imagining Windows as a touch-friendly mobile OS? Look no further than Gartner’s latest report on European and worldwide...
View ArticleNot just Instagram: the Windows Phone (and BlackBerry, Firefox OS) app problem
I like the Windows Phone OS and use one day to day. However it has become impossible to do my job in technical journalism without either an Apple iOS or Android device alongside it. The reason is that...
View ArticleMicrosoft completes Nokia acquisition: what now for Windows Phone?
Microsoft has completed its acquisition of Nokia today, a milestone in the turbulent story both of Nokia and of Windows Phone, which Nokia adopted in the hope of establishing a “third ecosystem” to...
View ArticleApple’s Swift programming language: easy coding for OS X and iOS at last?
Apple has announced a new programming language, called Swift. (There was already a language called Swift, used for parallel scripting, but Apple links to the other Swift in case you land on the wrong...
View ArticleMicrosoft repositions for a post-Windows client world
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has penned a rather long public letter which sets out his ambitions for the company. It is not full of surprises for those who have been paying attention, but confirms what...
View ArticleAmazon Mobile SDK adds login, data sync, analytics for iOS and Android apps
Amazon Web Services has announced an updated AWS Mobile SDK, which provides libraries for mobile apps using Amazon’s cloud services as a back end. Version 2.0 of the SDK supporting iOS, and Android...
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