John Cox

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Microsoft favours ‘first mover’ Windows Phone 7 apps

The company is taking its time with a broader rollout of Windows Marketplace for Windows Phone apps. It will give precedence to "first mover developers"

Are universities at greater risk of data breaches?

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse says higher education institutions have experienced nearly 160 breaches, exposing more than 2.3 million records, since 2008rn

Android development extended to BlackBerry, iOS

The WorkLight Mobile Platform, originally for Android, is a set of libraries, server middleware, and native client code that lets mobile applications connect securely to back-end authentication and application servers

iPhone 4 Wi-Fi proves a challenge for university

A Texas university that gives the handset to students finds the lastest version only uses the crowded 2.4 Ghz band, causing reception problems in lecture halls.

Apple’s iOS devices meet enterprise security needs

With the new version of IOS, Apple Inc.

Apple releases second beta of iOS 4.0

iPhone developers on Tuesday night got iOS4.1 beta 2 just two weeks after the first one. One blogger shares his thoughts on the sensor issue in the new beta

Windows Phone 7 gets open source database

A U.K.-based mobile software developer has ported an embedded database product to Microsoft's Windows Mobile 7 operating system. Perst is currently the only open source database management system available for WP7

Windows Phone 7 handsets prepped for developers

Microsoft has promised 'many thousands' of pre-release Windows Phone 7 handsets to select developers starting July but there remains confusion as to exactly that will happen

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