Xamarin offers free app-building tools to students
Xamarin has launched a new program designed to get its popular mobile app building platform into the hands of America's students, because children are our future or something like that.
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Twitter tears into mobile developer services with Fabric
The problem with Twitter has always been monetization: Ads don't pull in the revenue needed to maintain the social network, and it doesn't have Facebook's pull to entice developers to build on top of the platform. But no more -- or at least so Twitter hopes.
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Topcoder now has 3,700 Swift devs
At its most recent Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) event in June, Apple took the lid off something it had been silently cooking for years: Swift, a new programming language in the C family designed to combine the robustness of the Objective-C that iOS and OS X developers were used to with the speed of scripting languages like Python.
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Peak-load testing a growing necessity for Cloud: Micro Focus
With the change in the different types of users hitting commercial websites, Micro Focus is seeing a growing demand for peak-load testing of Cloud applications.
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Samsung Australia launches health and medical equipment division
Samsung has launched a dedicated health and medical equipment division in Australia.
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Mozilla ships Firefox 31, adds search to new tab page
Mozilla yesterday released Firefox 31, patching 14 vulnerabilities, debuting a search box on the new tab page and adding a Google-provided service that detects and blocks known malicious files before they're downloaded.
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The agency that brought you the Internet has created a self-guided bullet
The government's military research agency, DARPA, says it has demonstrated a bullet capable of locking onto a moving target from up to a mile away.
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Dev interest in OS X Yosemite is 4X what it was for Mavericks in '13
Developer interest in OS X Yosemite appears to be quadruple that of 2013's Mavericks.
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Google looks into a future with 3D tablets, interactive animation
In Google's vision of the future, tablets will provide a 3D view of the world and smartphones will have uses that haven't been thought of yet.
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Google I/O looks to be about more than Android
Google's annual I/O conference kicks off tomorrow amid widespread expectations that a new version of the Android OS will be unveiled, along with discussions of smartwatches and, perhaps, security.
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Microsoft sneak peaks future IE with dev channel
Microsoft on Monday launched a developers' channel of Internet Explorer that will be regularly updated to give website and Web app designers and developers an early look at what the company plans with its browser.
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June updates cripple some customers' Office 2013
Microsoft last week confirmed that the June 10 updates for Office 2013 left some users holding crippled software that refused to run.
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Meet Diesel, a cute dog and organic robot
Diesel, a Labrador Retriever, appears to live in a perpetual state of glee and is unbothered by the electronics-packed vest he is wearing.
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Devs can 'Handoff' iOS apps to browser-based UIs on Macs
Apple's new Handoff feature in iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite not only lets users pick up on one app from where they left off on another, but it can "forward" them to a website on an iPhone, iPad or Mac.
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NASA successfully tests laser space transmissions
NASA successfully transmitted a high-definition video 260 miles from the International Space Station to Earth using a new laser communications instrument.
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