Developers' frustration with Android growing

	LG looks for mobile expansion with ARM licenses | Microsoft explains its location data collection practices
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	Developers' frustration with Android growing The latest Appcelerator/IDC mobile survey has uncovered a growing well of frustration among Android developers, with underwhelming tablets, OS fragmentation and multiple app stores cited as the main worries. During the last 12 months, the duo's quarterly Mobile Developer Report has tracked surging interest in Android to the extent that it has been able to dramatically narrow the developer enthusiasm gap on the survey leader, Apple's iOS. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quantum Disk-Based Backup Price-Performance Leadership Quantum takes aim at the disk-based backup price-performance leadership position with its most recent DXi announcement. Read now. In this Issue LG looks for mobile expansion with ARM licenses Microsoft explains its location data collection practices Mobile application management without the heavy hand Your smartphone knows you better than you do RunRev extends LiveCode development tool to Android WHITE PAPER: Webroot Security as a Service: Business Decision Factors This paper reviews the business value of IT security, illustrates the business case for SaaS over "do it yourself" premise-based solutions, and outlines what to look for in SaaS solutions you can adopt with confidence and count on as you grow. Read More Today! LG looks for mobile expansion with ARM licenses LG Electronics announced on Tuesday it had signed a license for ARM's upcoming application and graphics processors, opening a path for the device maker to design a new chip and expand in the market of smartphones and tablets. LG currently offers the Optimus 2X smartphone and G-Slate tablet, both of which run on Nvidia's Tegra 2 chip, which include ARM processors. A license for ARM's upcoming Cortex-A15 processor gives LG intellectual property to make its own ARM-based chip for smartphones and tablets. Read More Microsoft explains its location data collection practices In the midst of an uproar over ways that Apple and Google collect and store location information from mobile phones, Microsoft has laid out details about its Windows Phone 7 data collection policies. Microsoft says that it collects location information only if users allow an application to access location data and when that particular application requests location information. It also said that it keeps that data in a Microsoft database. Read More Mobile application management without the heavy hand IT concerns are fast moving from mobile device management (MDM) to mobile application management (MAM) as part of a shift in thinking from whether to allow mobile devices in to how to best take advantage of them. At IT conferences, I hear more and more questions about how to manage those applications. Read More Your smartphone knows you better than you do "Know thyself" is Socrates' ancient dictum. If the Greek philosopher were alive today, though, he might rephrase that to "Know thy smartphone" -- because, as it turns out, your smartphone may know more about you than, well, you do. Think I'm being unusually silly? Not really. Let me explain. Read More RunRev extends LiveCode development tool to Android RunRev began extending on Tuesday its LiveCode application development tool to Google's Android mobile platform, following by several months the 2010 release of the tool for Apple's iOS platform. Read More
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