Paul Krill - Author - PC World Australia

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Article | 5/10/2010 Lack of BlackBerry migration no bar for RIM PlayBook developers

Although the full application development story is still being ironed out for Research in Motion's newly announced PlayBook tablet, developers are anx...

Article | 5/10/2010 Microsoft ramps up Windows Phone app store

Looking to provide the best shopping experience for mobile applications, Microsoft is engaging developers in a phased approach with its upcoming Windo...

Article | 1/10/2010 Microsoft: Windows Phone 7 will turn us into a mobile contender

Acknowledging Microsoft's current, non-contending status in the smartphone space, a Microsoft official Thursday stressed that the new Windows Phone 7 ...

Article | 29/09/2010 Rhomobile brings iPhone app dev to Windows PCs

Mobile application development tools vendor Rhomobile plans to unveil on Wednesday an extension to its software-as-a-service platform that will enable...

Article | 28/09/2010 RIM jumps into tablet game

Look out, Apple. BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) is now in the tablet business.

Article | 28/09/2010 RIM shows off Web-based BlackBerry development platform

While declining to discuss rumors of a planned pad computer, Research In Motion (RIM)&nbsp; did roll out on Monday a Web-based application develop...

Article | 25/09/2010 Rubinius Ruby language variant gets an upgrade

Rubinius, an implementation of the Ruby programming language featuring enhancements for JIT (Just In Time) compilation and garbage collection, is bein...

Article | 24/09/2010 JavaOne debate: Java EE vs. Spring

The enterprise variant of Java faced off against the Spring Framework this week in a debate over which one developers should use for <a href="http://w...

Article | 24/09/2010 Visual Basic developers get access to Windows Phone 7

Microsoft on Thursday began offering tools enabling Visual Basic developers to build applications for the Windows Phone 7 mobile phone platform.

Article | 22/09/2010 Oracle silent on Java independence initiative

While Java founder James Gosling has campaigned for Oracle to place Java under the jurisdiction of an independent foundation, Oracle is declining to c...

Article | 21/09/2010 JavaFX moves forward while mobile variant on hold

JavaFX, the rich Internet application platform launched in 2007 by Sun Microsystems, will be refreshed next year, although the mobile version of the t...

Article | 14/09/2010 Java garbage collection issue makes the rounds

Tackling memory limitations imposed on Java applications, Terracotta on Tuesday will offer what it describes as a breakthrough in solving the "univers...

Article | 14/09/2010 Nvidia brings new tools for building GPU-accelerated applications

Nvidia on Tuesday will unveil upgrades to Parallel Nsight, a toolkit for building GPU-accelerated applications from within Microsoft's Visual Studio I...

Article | 10/09/2010 Cloud-based source code host adds Git

Codesion, which offers hosted source code management, has added the Git distributed version control system to its services, the company said this week...

Article | 9/09/2010 Oracle bolsters former Sun Unix platform

Oracle detailed on Wednesday upgrades to the Solaris Unix OS it inherited from Sun Microsystems, offering improvements in such areas as virtualization...