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Google Android's new battleground: Developers

Google executives have a lot of work ahead of them as they court application developers skeptical of the search king's new open software platform for mobile devices. Read more »

With JavaFX, Sun seeks new coders, new revenue

With a back-to-the-future technology called JavaFX, Sun hopes to attract a new class of developer while building a much-needed new revenue source. Read more »

Sun tries again with consumer-flavoured Java

The server and software company comes full circle with Java, releasing a scripting language to ease desktop and device Java development. Read more »

Phone: Google Maps ditches satellites for triangles

Forget satellite -- Google's mobile phone mapping application can give a user's location without being GPS-enabled, but just a little less accurately. Read more »

Google details Android development tools

Google has released programming tools for its Android mobile phone alliance for download, giving developers the ability to start writing software for phones with $10 million in prizes to lure them. Read more »

Vulnerability hits Java for mobile phones

A Polish researcher has found two vulnerabilities in the mobile phone version of Sun Microsystems' Java software that under unusual circumstances could let a malicious program read private information or render a phone unusable. Read more »

Google reveals Android source code

A year after announcing Android, the open source phone operating system intended to jump-start the mobile Internet, Google has begun sharing the project's underlying source code. Read more »

Symbian expects Android to get forked

Google's Android mobile phone stack will fork into multiple versions, according to Symbian's research chief David Wood. Read more »

Google reveals Android's sensitive inner compass

Google has shown off Android's inner compass which allows the screen's view to mirror the holder's orientation. Read more »

Adobe opens up Flash, ditches licensing fees

Adobe is aiming for greater use of its Flash Player multimedia Web software within mobile and other non-PC devices by launching its Open Screen Project — an industry alliance it hopes will garner the support of large vendors in the embedded multimedia space. Read more »

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Ask the Java expert: Develop mobile apps

Want to start developing applications for Java phones? Builder AU's resident Java expert, Michael Geisler shows you how to get started. Read more »

Nokia Mobile Internet Toolkit

MMS based services are expected to provide huge opportunity for developers and operators with the availability of 3G mobile wireless networks. Read more about the Nokia 3.1 toolkit in this article. Read more »

RIM releases BlackBerry development tools

Research in Motion has announced new developer tools for those who want to write or adapt applications for the latest BlackBerry handsets. Read more »

The Mobile Future

The next battle for the hearts and minds of internet developers will be fought on the mobile phone. Read more »

Australian Mobile Development Landscape

Slow networks, expensive data charges, and a plethora of technical problems have prevented the mobile phone taking off as a computing platform. Is that about to change? Read more »

Java development trends

Java is quickly moving into new arenas. This first part of the series from Builder introduces just some of these trends. Read more »

J2ME shortcoming opens door for Microsoft

In the war between the world's two biggest platforms, a weakness in one J2ME specification may be opening a window of opportunity for Microsoft that could have a chilling effect on the heat in Java's brew. Read more »

What's behind BREW?

Thanks to Qualcomm and Oracle's recently announced deal, BREW users can look forward to using enterprise database applications on their mobile phones and PDAs. Read more »

Sun to sell Zaurus at JavaOne

This year's Java conference aims to highlight Sun's strategy for unifying the fragmented mobile world through software that can run on many operating systems. A big draw could be a discounted Zaurus Linux/Java PDA. Read more »

Qt: Cross-platform futures in a mobile world

Benoit Schillings is chief technologist for Qt Software (originally Trolltech). Based in the Bay Area around San Francisco, he sets the direction of the company's cross-platform application deployment product. Read more »

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Google's Android parts ways with Java industry group

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google's Android software gives Sun Microsystems' Java technology a starring role -- but not the version of Java the rest of the mobile phone industry has been developing since the 1990s. Read more »

OpenAndroid: a Google geek's delight

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Between OpenSocial and Android, did anyone manage not to hear about Google this week? Read more »

This week's news regex: Open[A-Za-z]+

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- If there were announcements to be made this week, many of the usual suspects chose Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco as the place to make them. Read more »

Newbie guide to Google's Android

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Google's platform for mobile devices has been announced and ready for developers to get their hands dirty. Here's the basics of what it's all about and the core architecture overview. Read more »

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    In this week's Roundup we show you a preview of Windows 7 beta, cover news from the annual Macworld and more. Read more »

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    Opera has thrown a little more love at device developers by announcing an updated version of its software development kit on Wednesday at CES. Read more »

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    It's another year down but some things never change. That was shown this week as Internet Explorer remained under fire from yet another zero-day exploit. In other news, we set a hard drive on fire and Apple cans its involvement with MacWorld. Read more »

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