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Hardware vendors chase Apple’s iPad at CES with Android, not Windows

By tim, on January 5th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

There is a chorus of disapproval on the web today as Asus announced a full-fat Windows tablet (Eee Slate EP121) at CES in Las Vegas, along with three other devices running Google Android – the Eee Pad MeMo, the Eee Pad Transformer, and the Eee Pad Slider.

The most detailed “review” I’ve seen for the

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Ten big tech trends from 2010

By tim, on December 31st, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

This was an amazing year for tech. Here are some of the things that struck me as significant.

Sun Java became Oracle Java

Oracle acquired Sun and set about imposing its authority on Java. Java is still Java, but Oracle lacks Sun’s commitment to open source and community – though even in Sun days there

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Apple gives up on Xserve dedicated server hardware – looking towards the cloud?

By tim, on November 5th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Apple is scrapping is Xserve products, according to the latest information on its web site:

Xserve will no longer be available after January 31, but we’ll continue to fully support it. To learn more, view the PDF.

If you do indeed view the PDF, it confirms that:

Apple will not be developing a future version

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Windows Phone 7 battles indifference in London

By tim, on October 21st, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Today is launch day for Windows Phone 7 in the UK – but the hoped-for crowds of people waiting to buy the new phone failed to appear.

They are billed as the handsets that could topple the iPhone. Yet as Microsoft’s Windows 7 phones went on sale this morning there was not a queue in

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Rethinking Developers Developers Developers

By tim, on October 5th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I’m waiting for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to speak at the London School of Economics, which seems a good moment to reflect on his well-known war cry “Developers Developers Developers”.

Behind the phrase is a theory about how to make your platform succeed. The logic is something like this. Successful platforms have lots of applications,

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RunRev renames product to LiveCode, supports iPad and iPhone but not Windows Phone 7

By tim, on September 20th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Runtime Revolution has renamed its software development IDE and runtime to LiveCode, which it says is a “modern descendent of natural-language technologies such as Apple’s HyperCard.” The emphasis is on easy and rapid development using visual development supplemented with script.

It is now a cross-platform development platform that targets Windows, Mac and Linux. Android is

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Latest job stats on technology adoption – Flash, Silverlight, iPhone, Android, C#, Java

By tim, on September 14th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

It is all very well expressing opinions on which technologies are hot and which are struggling, but what is happening in the real world? It is hard to get an accurate picture – surveys tend to have sampling biases of one kind or another, and vendors rarely release sales figures. I’ve never been happy with

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Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie: We have 200+ engineers working on Silverlight and WPF

By tim, on September 13th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft is countering rumours that WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) or Silverlight, a cross-platform browser plug-in based on the same XAML markup language and .NET programming combination as WPF, are under any sort of threat from HTML 5.0.

We have 200+ engineers right now working on upcoming releases of SL and WPF – which is a

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Apple lifts restrictions on app development tools, publishes review guidelines

By tim, on September 9th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Apple has lifted its restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS (iPhone and iPad) apps, in a statement published today:

We have listened to our developers and taken much of their feedback to heart. Based on their input, today we are making some important changes to our iOS Developer Program license in sections

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Ten reasons the Apple iPhone 4 beats the Android HTC Desire

By tim, on September 7th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve recently been trying the Android-based HTC Desire for some development research. I’ve also been using the iPhone 4 since its release in the UK. How do they compare? Yesterday I posted Ten ways the Android HTC Desire beats Apple’s iPhone. Now here’s the opposite – ten ways the iPhone is better. Conclusions then? Maybe

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