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Smartphone platform provider Symbian Foundation is joining forces with mobile framework builder Nitobi on Monday in an effort to simplify application development for Symbian devices. The two organizations Monday are detailing the integration of Symbian’s Web application-building tools with Nitobi’s PhoneGap cross-platform framework for mobile application development. Nitobi also will contribute PhoneGap to the Symbian [...]

Making a critical move in mobile application development, Microsoft on Monday shipped a beta version of its Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools, but early reaction from some developers was tepid. The beta release is “a big milestone for everyone involved in Windows Phone 7 — inside and outside of Microsoft — and we hope you [...]

Rhomobile is shipping on Tuesday version 2.0 of its Rhodes framework for developing native smartphone applications, which extends Apple iPhone native mapping capabilities to other devices. Rhodes 2.0 also offers accommodations for back-end applications via a metadata  framework. Rhomobile also is offering free licensing. But a previously planned capability for bidirectional streaming of multimedia content [...]

Eclipse 4 (e4), the next generation of the Eclipse open source development tooling platform, is slated to ship in July. Formally known as Eclipse SDK 4.0, the platform features the developer’s workbench — building blocks for constructing desktop applications or tools that work with Eclipse, said Mike Milinkovich, Eclipse’s executive director, in an interview at [...]

Eclipse Pulsar, an Eclipse project aimed at addressing fragmentation in mobile application development, has been held back by the perception that it is just for Java development, but it still offers potential, panelists said Monday evening at the annual EclipseCon technical conference in Santa Clara, Calif. Panelists discussing mobile application development at the event pondered Pulsar, which [...]