Apple has announced that it has reached a milestone of more than 40 billion apps being downloaded on its platform, with more than 20 billion in the previous year itself. Over 7 billion dollars have been paid to app developers by the company till now.
Canonical has announced Ubuntu for phones and Ubuntu for Android, which will be shown off at CES this month. It will be available in two flavours for low end smartphones and high end superphones.
Google is setting up data centres in Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong, with special focus on India. This is expected to speed up Google services in the country like YouTube and Google Hangout by more than 30pc.
Microsoft says that there has been a rise of more than 40pc in the developer revenue of the past 30 days since the launch of SDK. Reflecting on the previous year, it said that more than 75000 new apps have been published and users are installing more and more apps than ever before.
The programming language Ada has finally received approval from the ISO as a standard under which it will be known as Ada 2012. It has added new features including major enhancements like contract based programming, increased expressiveness and multi-core support.
YouTube Android API, which was announced at Google I/O 2012, has just been launched experimentally and allows embedding of YouTube videos natively like never before. This is expected to drastically improve the quality of video related apps that are available on the Play Store.
Sencha created a proof of concept demo app called Fastbook to show that HTML5 is actually mature enough to work as fast as native apps.
Dell has decided it will no longer be a part of the global smartphone market and instead will focus on Windows 8 tablets.
A user on XDA developer forums has discovered an exploit which affects all Android devices based on the Exynos chipset. This particular exploit enables almost anyone to directly access the physical memory.
Google is in direct competition mode, as it ends support for access to Google services on Exchange ActiveSync, stating that with open standards such as CalDAV and CardDAV, these technologies are no longer relevant.
