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Google Releases Android Native Development Kit

Posted by admin in Industry News on June 26th, 2009

Most Android applications run in the Dalvik virtual machine, but Google has released the tools developers need to create native apps.

The company warns that native apps have advantages and disadvantages. They will be more complicated, have reduced compatibility, have no access to framework APIs, and be harder to debug. On the other hand, some applications that have self-contained, CPU-intensive operations that don’t allocate much memory may still benefit from increased performance and the ability to reuse existing code. Some examples are signal processing, intensive physics simulations, and some kinds of data processing.

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iPhone OS 3.0 Software Update

Posted by admin in Industry News on June 17th, 2009

OS Upgrade for the iPhone 3G Now Available

Apple has released an upgrade for the system software and bundled applications on the iPhone 3G. This brings many of the features in the upcoming iPhone 3G S to the currrent model.

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Supercity Brighton

Posted by admin in Company News on June 12th, 2009

A recent report named Brighton as one of five “supercities” that will save the UK’s economy.
Brighton is set to become one of five “supercities” that will save the UK’s economy.

Britain’s traditional landscape of factories, power stations and farms could be replaced with areas devoted to robotics and wind farms according to the new HSBC Future of Business report.

The report says Brighton, along with Leeds, Liverpool, London and Newcastle would become a supercity focusing on new economic endeavours like digital media, broadcasting, nanotechnology, cybernetics and other bio and technological sciences over the next 20 years.

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New iPhone 3G S to Launch on 19 June

Posted by admin in Industry News on June 8th, 2009

iPhone 3GS is highlight of Worldwide Developers Conference
After a string of successes with the iPod and iPhone, Apple is hoping it can keep wowing shoppers with the latest version of its popular mobile handset.

The iPhone 3GS, which will go on sale on 19 June in the UK, will sport a number of upgrades from its predecessors – including a doubled capacity of 32GB, a digital compass, and the ability to record videos.

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