Category: Software
Microsoft and Open Source?
I thought it was fun to see a Microsoft booth in the Open Source park at CeBIT 2011, so I went jokingly to ask if it was a mistake, turns out Microsoft has lots of things going on with Open Source around the world. "Microsoft is changing into a more open company", does that mean Windows 8 for ARM will be open source and free? Does Microsoft prepare Azure OS to compete with Chrome OS? Should Microsoft and Nokia simply take Honeycomb and improve on that and call it Microdroid?
Android Native Code SDK for advanced Game Development
HyperDevBox is a development company based in Tokyo Japan, developing games exclusively for Android. They are presenting Spectral Souls for Android, the first tactical RPG game for Android and explaining how the Android Native SDK is being used to run native C or C++ code, there is no Java code at all in the game.
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Device Anywhere, testing applications
Device Anywhere provides test center service for app developers, carriers, service providers to test apps and services accross all the devices using some kind of standard for testing. Basically they make it automatic to test stuff across all devices that people use on the market, to test and see what features may work more or less well.
PTPT user interfaces at Mobile World Congress 2011
ExB Communication Systems GmbH presents the PTPT touch screen interface, a suggested UI to manage "all the information around you". PTPT stands for people, things, places and time. It's an Android Home Replacement that will be available in the Google Marketplace next month.
Marvell’s seamless multimedia synchronization
Marvell demonstrates seamless sharing of pictures, videos over the Internet with picture frames, HDTV slideshows, NAS and more. This demo is using the software from Funambol and Eyecon.
Marvell Kinoma, virtual platform for developing applications
Kinoma play is showcased on Android devices, it's running all the apps on pure ARM processor with no need for graphics acceleration, it can come with more than 50 applications built in.