Linux Mint 13 rallies behind Gnome

With the new version of Linux Mint, released Wednesday, the developers behind the open source Linux distribution have put all energies behind Gnome, offering two versions of the desktop interface. [...]

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Top 7 dilemmas facing today’s developers

Your boss wants it yesterday, but it better be good when judged by the standards of tomorrow. Your customers want every feature they can imagine, but don’t you dare confuse them by giving them all the buttons they want. Your fellow programmers want your code documented, but they just respond “tl;dr” to anything you write. [...]

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Yahoo lays out road map for BOSS
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We're not waiting for Android 5 'Jelly Bean,' developers say

Despite the rumors, developers are focused on making apps — and money — from today's Android [...]

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Flashback Mac Trojan earned $14,000 from ad clicks, Symantec

Symantec originally thought that at its peek the Flashback Trojan was generating around $10,000 a day by hijacking ad clicks. Now, new research suggests the developers may only have earned $14,000 during the time that the malware was active. [...]

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Infected WordPress blogs blamed for Mac Flashback Trojan
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iOS 6 spotted by developers in usage logs

Developers have discovered that users running iOS 6 have been accessing their apps. [...]

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Appsbar gives small businesses a simple (and free!) template for app building

If you’ve ever wanted to build a mobile app for your small business but have been intimidated by the cost of hiring developers, Appsbar has a proposition for you. [...]

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Enterprise mobile apps are shifting from small, narrowly task-oriented programs to larger, more complex ones. To design them well, enterprise developers can learn a lot from a surprising source: mobile games. [...]

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Pixorial leads with Google Drive: will developers follow?

When Pixorial updated its video-sharing iOS app last month, the company added a feature its competitors couldn't yet match: Integration with the new Google Drive cloud storage service. [...]

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Salesforce.com’s Heroku rolls out new cloud database options

Salesforce.com’s Heroku division this week rolled out two entry-level tiers for its Postgres-based cloud database service, hoping to cater to applications with lower data-volume requirements as well as helping startup developers make an easier jump into production. [...]

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Android developers never looked at Sun's patents, Google's Rubin testifies

Google's engineers never studied other companies' patents while developing Android for fear of allowing those patents to influence their design decisions, Google's Android chief Andy Rubin testified on the stand Wednesday. [...]

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