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Symantec’s Norton division today launched its “Norton Everywhere” initiative aimed at bringing security protections and cloud-storage access to the Google Android and Apple iPhone smartphones. The announcement coincides with the launch of a new mobile-focused Website. First up is a free app for Android and iPhone, called Norton Connect, that will enable access to data [...]

A popular Website that focuses on consumer electronics claims to have gotten a legitimate prototype of the next Apple iPhone, which was said to be found in a California bar. Enthusiast site Gizmodo got hold of the smartphone, disassembled the device, and published a detailed blog entry saying it is “the real thing.” The unit [...]

The launch of the Apple iPad — which begins shipping this week — has sparked a debate over the necessity and value of Adobe Flash. The lack of Flash support has been attacked as a weakness of Apple’s tablet device; while others claim dependence on a proprietary technology like Flash is a weakness of the [...]

Security company 3Com TippingPoint has jacked up to $100,000 the prize money on offer to anyone able to hack a range of browsers and mobile devices at the forthcoming CanSecWest security conference. Running for the fourth year at the event, $40,000 of the Pwn2Own contest pot will be on offer to entrants that successfully exploit [...]

Microsoft at its Mix10 conference on Monday showed off application capabilities for its Windows Phone 7 Series platform and offered a release candidate for its upcoming Silverlight 4 rich Internet application plug-in technology. Windows Phone 7 Series leverages Silverlight and the XNA gaming platform for application development. Visual Studio and Microsoft Expression Blend are positioned, [...]

Appcelerator will release on Monday version 1.0 of Titanium, its cross-platform system for building native mobile and desktop applications. Titanium leverages Web development technologies such as JavaScript, PHP, and Ruby. For mobile application builders, this means they do not need to learn the Objective-C language for iPhone or Google’s Java language for Android systems. A [...]

Intel is using cash incentives to lure mobile software developers to its AppUp Center application store, hoping to spur the development of new applications for netbooks with Atom microprocessors inside. On Monday, Intel offered a range of financial incentives to bring mobile developers to the AppUp Center, which currently works only with Windows. Incentives include [...]

Rhomobile unveiled this week an upgrade to Rhodes, its open source framework for building native applications for multiple smartphone platforms. Rhodes can be used to build applications for Apple iPhone, Research in Motion BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian, and Google’s Android. With version 1.4 of the Ruby-based Rhodes framework, Rhomobile adds such capabilities as database-based logging [...]

Apple iPhone application developers have taken a look at the nuances of building software for the the larger iPad tablet and find it strikingly similar to building for the iPhone, though with the added benefit of more screen real estate. “I guess my surprise was there weren’t any surprises,” said developer Christopher Allen, author of [...]

Apple iPhone application developers have taken a look at the nuances of building software for the the larger iPad tablet and find it strikingly similar to building for the iPhone, though with the added benefit of more screen real estate. “I guess my surprise was there weren’t any surprises,” said developer Christopher Allen, author of [...]