HTML5 still relevant for app developers: Kendo UI
Kendo UI has conducted a survey that shows some surprising statistics regarding usage of HTML5 among mobile app developers.
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Steam for Linux Beta now Available
After conducting a beta participation survey over the past two weeks, Valve has finally sent out invites for their Linux beta.
OpenSUSE for ARM now Available
The popular OpenSUSE Linux distribution has made its first release for the ARM platform with an ARM version of its latest openSUSE 12.2 version.
Facebook upgrades its Hadoop clusters with the Prism project
Facebook’s Hadoop clusters are ready to scale across distinct data centres, with a recent upgrade that enables better delay tolerance. In the near future, Facebook plans to open source Prism as well.
Android completes five years since it was first announced
Android was announced exactly five years ago by the Open Handset Alliance on 5 November, 2007. Today after all these years, it has captured almost 75 percent of the phones in smartphone category.
SMS phishing vulnerability detected in Android
A Smishing vulnerability in Android has been discovered by researchers at NC State University that allows a running application to fake the reception of a message coming from an arbitrary number, possibly from the user’s contacts.
Chrome Apps can now run a Web Server
Google has just introduced a new API for packaged Google Chrome apps that allows them to accept TCP connections.
Now take your apps to Windows 8 with PhoneGap
PhoneGap 2.2.0 adds support for Windows 8, allowing developers to create and publish apps to the Windows Store.
Amazon Reduces Some EC2 Prices; Launches new Instance Type
Amazon has launched a new set of standard instances for their EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) service that are optimised for “media encoding, batch processing, caching, and web serving.”
