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Judge Dismisses Google's Complaint in Android Lawsuit

The judge overseeing the dispute between Motorola and Microsoft over Android use threw out Google's attempt to disqualify an expert witness this week.

Google To Pay $12.5 Billion for Motorola Mobility Acquisition

Google has made a huge move in the smartphone market with today's announcement that it will be shelling out $12.5 billion in cash for phone handset maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.

Google Improves 'Native Client' for HTML 5 Web Apps

Google announced on Thursday that it has released a new beta of its Native Client plug-in, which is integrated into its Chrome browser.

Android Leads Pack in Global Smartphone Race; Apple's iOS Third

In the latest report by Gartner, 428.7 million new smartphones have been sold globally in the second quarter of 2011.

Motorola Wants Partnership with Microsoft for Mobile OS

A top executive at Motorola suggested on Tuesday that the company is open to a deal with Microsoft on Windows.

Red Hat's OpenShift PaaS for Cloud Now Supports Java EE 6

Red Hat announced today that its OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environment now supports Java Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6).

Mylyn-Based Tasktop Sync Aims To Bring Together Agile ALM

Tasktop Sync is designed to provide "real-time ALM server synchronization" for Agile enterprise shops.

Follow Safe Practices To Develop Securely for Mobile Apps

Investing the time to apply the proper auditing and testing techniques is worth the time, according to security experts.

Adobe Releases HTML 5 Animation Tool

Adobe made available earlier this week a preview version of its upcoming HTML 5 development tool called Adobe Edge.

War of Words over Android Patents Continues Between Microsoft and Google

Two Microsoft executives are contesting earlier complaints by Google over patents relating to the Android mobile OS.

Report: Android Malware on the Rise

The creation of malware targeted towards Android devices has increased by a factor of five in the past 12 months.

Safari Passes Firefox, IE 8 Still Tops Browser Data for July

Apple's Safari 5 browser gained enough ground in July to take the second spot behind Internet Explorer 8, according to a survey.

Java SE 7 'Buggy,' Causing Crashes Says Apache Lucene

The Apache Lucene project has reported that the Java SE 7 release "contains hotspot compiler optimizations" that "miscompile some loops," which can cause the JVMs in some Apache projects to crash and result in i bugs in some applications.

Oracle Releases Java 7

Oracle on Thursday announced the availability of the Java Platform Standard Edition 7 (Java SE 7).

Developers Get Different 'Mango' Build Release

Microsoft explained today that developers trying to access the latest 'Mango' update to Windows Phone 7 wiill receive a different build.

Java IDE Maker JetBrains Creates New JVM Language

JetBrains has introduced a new JVM-targeted programming language, code-named "Kotlin."

ZeroTurnaround To Offer MyEclipse Plugin

ZeroTurnaround and Genuitec have collaborated to create JRebel for MyEclipse.

Microsoft's LightSwitch Released for Visual Studio

Microsoft announced the release of Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 on Tuesday -- which is described as a "simplified self-service development tool" that allows for the creation of.NET applications that can be deployed to the desktop, Web or Azure cloud.

ZK Studio Java IDE Now Available as Eclipse Plug-In

Potix Corporation has just made its ZK Studio integrated development environment (IDE) available as an Eclipse plug-in.

Windows Phone 7 'Mango' Released to OEMs

Microsoft's next update to Windows Phone 7, codenamed "Mango," has been released to device manufacturing partners today.