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Latest News from Microsoft and Amazon Regarding Android
Microsoft Azure now has an Android SDK including notification push to Android devices. Amazon makes available a Mobile Ads API that can be used to display adds from their network on any Android device in parallel with those from Google AdMob.
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Google App Engine Adds Support for Java 7
Google App Engine introduces experimental support for Java 7, Cloud Endpoints, and Cloud Messaging Service for Android.
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What’s Up with CU-RTC-Web?
Microsoft CU-RTC-Web is an alternative approach to WebRTC meant to show some of WebRTC’s weaknesses and to push it forward.
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H.265 Codec Standard Has Been Approved
The H.265 codec standard, the successor of H.264, has been approved, promising support for 8k UHD and lower bandwidth, but the patent issues plaguing H.264 remain.
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Android 4.2 December Bug Dissected
Google has forgotten to include December in the originally released Android 4.2. Did the bug still exist or already been fixed? Read this story.
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Google Play Services 2.0 Adds Maps and Photo Sphere API
Google has released version 2.0 of their Play Services for Android applications. The new additions represent the Maps and Photo Sphere APIs, and are available for all applications running on Android 2.2+.
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Google Open Sources Testacular, a JavaScript Test Runner
Google has open sourced Testacular, a JavaScript test runner based on Node.js. The tool can be used to test all major web browsers, can be integrated with CI tools, and it works with any code editor.
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Google Improves Dart and Provides an SDK
Google has released an SDK for Dart and several new language features and improvements, such as: an Editor, Dartium, faster VM, a numbers of libraries, a package manager and others.
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Querying Columnar Databases with Google Supersonic
Supersonic is a query engine library for columnar databases providing a set of data transformation primitives that Google advertises to be “ultra-fast.”
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Oracle and Google Plan Appeals of Verdict in Java-Android Trial
Oracle and Google will both appeal a jury's findings that Google infringed copyrights but didn't steal patents when it used Java as the basis for Android, its mobile operating system.
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Converting Java to Objective-C with Google’s J2ObjC
Google has open sourced J2ObjC, a transpiler converting Java source code to Objective-C/C++ source code for the iOS platform.
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Google Has Open Sourced Octane, a New JavaScript Benchmark Suite
Google has open sourced Octane, a JavaScript benchmarking suite consisting of 13 tests measuring browser performance.
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Google Open Sources Leak Finder, a JavaScript Tool for Detecting Memory Leaks
Google has open sourced Leak Finder, a tool inspecting the heap of JavaScript applications in order to find memory leaks.
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Android 4.1: Open Sourced with UI, Connectivity, Services and Tools Improvements
The recently open sourced Android 4.1, aka Jelly Bean, comes with several UI, connectivity, services and SDK enhancements, including: smoother UI, better HTML5 rendering, cloud messaging, performance and debugging tools.
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Oracle Accepts $0 From Google, But Plans Appeal
Oracle has agreed to accept $0 worth of damages from Google, after Oracle's legal team agreed in court yesterday to forego any statutory damages in connection with its infringement case against Google.