Today, Apple announced new iPhone models, a watch, and a payment service. In response, FSF executive director John Sullivan made the following statement: It is astonishing to see so much of the technology press acting as Apple’s marketing arm. What’s on display today is widespread complicity in hiding the most newsworthy aspect of the announcement…
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Embarcadero Launches RAD Studio XE7
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Delivers New Technologies for Extending Existing Windows Applications to Mobile Devices, Gadgets and Wearables Maidenhead, UK – September 2, 2014 – Embarcadero Technologies, a leading provider of software solutions for application and database development, today launched Embarcadero® RAD Studio XE7, the complete solution to build connected apps for Windows, Android, iOS, Mac OS X, gadgets,…
To solve Android's update woes, Google should look to the PC
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Enlarge / You know, there was some other huge platform that handled the update problem much more gracefully than Android. Source: Tech
Linaro announces Android Open Source Project port for ARMv8-A…
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Following the recent announcement of the AndroidTM L Developer Preview supporting the 64-bit ARMv8-A architecture, Linaro, the collaborative engineering organization developing open source software for the ARM architecture, today announced that a port of the Android Open Source Project to the ARMv8-A architecture has been made available as part of … (more) Source: Tech
Latest Release of Appmethod Enables Developers to Use C++ to Create and Publish Android Apps Faster than Ever
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New Complimentary Subscription Plan Gives C++ Developers Free Android Phone Targeting Forever Maidenhead, U.K. – June 20, 2014 – With today’s availability of the latest release of Appmethod, developers can now use C++, the most widely used programming language in the world[1], to create complete apps for Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac OS X. Appmethod…
US Supreme Court makes the right decision to nix Alice Corp. patent, but more work needed to end software patents for good
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The FSF, Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), and Open Source Initiative (OSI) had co-filed an amicus curiae brief in the case, stating their position that software on general-purpose computers is not patentable. “Today’s ruling is an important and meaningful step in the right direction, but the Court and Congress must go further,” said Zak Rogoff,…
Scandit Launches New Feature-Rich Version of Barcode Scanner SDK for Android
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San Francisco, May 8, 2014 Scandit (www.scandit.com), developer of the leading software-based barcode scanning and data capture platform for smartphones, tablets and wearable computing devices, has today launched the new, fourth version of its Barcode Scanner SDK, Version 4.0, for the Android platform. This incorporates dynamic features including full-screen scanning, further improvements to its unique…
Canonical's audacious Ubuntu for Android project isn't quite dead, but it is in limbo
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The idea was audacious: Combine Android, the most popular mobile version of Linux, with Ubuntu, the leading Linux desktop operating system, on a single smartphone that swapped between the two depending on whether the device was docked. Source: Tech
VictorOps Makes Being On-Call Suck Less
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Everybody’s got a plan. Until they get punched in the face. It’s go time. You knew it was coming. Now what? VictorOps opens an incident that puts your customized company and personal escalation policies into play. Push notifications to our native mobile apps, SMS messages to your phone, or (gasp!) an actual phone call. We…
Android-x86 Makes It To KitKat
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Android-x86 is an open source project to bring the Android operating system to fairly standard x86 hardware like desktop PCs and laptops. Source: Tech