Mobile software development proponents debated on Thursday the merits of framework and Web approaches to combat the fragmentation developers face when building applications for the multitude of handheld phones.
Following on the heels of their mobile video announcement, Cingular and AT&T announced last week that the Cingular Wireless brand would take the AT&T name. But what we believe was the more important announcement last week is of a new offer for unlimited free calling between wireless and wireline phone numbers.
BlackBerry and Unity are working together on an add-on for BlackBerry 10 smartphones that should make it easier for developers to create games for the new OS.
Unity Technologies will soon extend its cross-platform game development tools with an open beta trial targeting the BlackBerry 10 OS. It is inviting developers to register now to be among the first to get access.
NEC and Tyco began joint planning work Tuesday for the Unity undersea cable, a high-speed fiber optic link between the U.S. and Japan that's backed by Internet-giant Google and five telecom operators.
Games developers using Unity Technologies' cross-platform tools can now access a translation plug-in in beta that could expand their products' geographical reach.
Cisco has released a patch for its Unity unified messaging platform that fixes an authentication bug that could allow unauthorized users to make configuration changes. VMWare is out with a number of fixes as well for its Hosted products, VirtualCenter Update 3, ESX and ESXi lines. And Adobe finally acknowleged the Clickjacking attack that plagues its Flash player. The company released a workaround for the issue and says a permanent fix should be out at the end of the month.
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Mozilla and Unity Technologies are collaborating to make it easier for developers to create games that will run smoothly in a browser without plugins, thanks to technologies such as WebGL.
Enhanced system management capabilities, better security, support for third-party drivers and more unity among the various distributions top user wish lists when it comes to Linux. They also would like to see more of their peers embrace the open source operating system as it evolves into a platform capable of supporting even the most-critical layers in the data center.
Last week, Silver Peak announced a new product called Unity that can be thought of as an intelligent WAN optimization "fabric" that enables network managers to track the location of cloud services and have a real-time “weather map” of Internet traffic to help find the optimum path for traffic flows.