HTML5 will make the Web browser into an application runtime environment similar to how Java and .NET work, but will use a mishmash of old technologies to achieve this. Is this good for application developers? Is this a good way to develop applications for the next 20 years or is this a big step backwards in application development?

TIGA, the trade association representing the UK games industry, today released the results of a snap survey on piracy. The TIGA Piracy Survey compiles feedback from TIGA members and is designed to provide TIGA, the development community and Government with information on how UK developers view the piracy and its effects on their business. TIGAs

... of enhancements to the BlackBerry services platform and new ways for developers to make money. RIM will allow in-app transactions, ... App World, in April but it hasn’t attracted the same number of developers to its platform as the iPhone or Android. The App World ... the BlackBerry. RIM and Adobe have partnered to allow application developers to use Flash platform technology and other Adobe tools ...

... spoken with estimates that the changes may drop usage on their apps by 70% or more (more on that below, some developers may use the changes to their advantage). Like previous changes, Facebook is moving to clean up their ... keep the user experience tolerable. So instead of trying to put in writing everything that developers can and cannot do to spread word about their apps, they’ll move to more ...

... ; productivity and user experience of Windows 7 will be available to developers using the Eclipse IDE and also to desktop applications built on ... the Java SDK for Windows Azure so that Java developers who are running on-premise applications or other cloud applications can ... Eclipse Tools for Silverlight, which is a plug-in for Eclipse-based developers to build rich Internet applications that leverage ...

... changes which is why we doubt they’d completely pull the rug out from developers. Instead, we’re guessing that new distribution channels will be announced and developers will be forced ... year ago Facebook removed the boxes from profiles and that was a big deal at the time, but many developers were able to push through. The developer community is extremely important to Facebook to say ...