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Open Web Developer News Desk
SYS-CON's Open Web News Desk tracks the constant stream of compelling technology and Open APIs being released by or catalyzed by Google and its allies.

Project Insight Project Management Software Releases Project Scorecard
Project Insight has released Project Scorecard, a project scoring system that enables companies to measure projects on how they fit into corporate goals and objectives. With the recent economic downturn, businesses are hard-pressed to prioritize major projects a...
GIS Planning Integrates Browser-Based Google Earth into its Services
As soon as Google announced the availability of browser-based Google Earth functionality, GIS Planning's development team jumped on the opportunity to integrate the application into their existing Google Maps-powered services. In doing so, GIS Planning became on...
Zoho Invites Google & Yahoo Users to Login
Zoho announced that it is welcoming Google and Yahoo users with a unified login designed to encourage those users to try Zoho applications. Now, Google and Yahoo users who visit Zoho can simply log into Zoho using the usernames and passwords associated with their ...
Google Reports 31% Profits Increase in First Quarter of 2008
After a better-than-expected quarterly earnings report called 'amazingly good' by the New York Times, it would seem that Google is defying macro-economic downtrend. 'It's clear we are well positioned for 2008 and beyond, regardless of the business environment we ...
Google VP of Engineering To Become EMI Music's New President of Digital
Douglas Merrill, Google VP of Engineering, is leaving Google to become EMI Music's new President of Digital. Merrill joined Google late in 2003 as Senior Director of Information Systems. In this capacity he led multiple strategic efforts including Google?s 2004 IP...
Krugle Makes Code Search OpenAPI Available for Partners
Krugle, the company that provides code search for the world's leading developer networks, including IBM developerWorks, CollabNet, SourceForge.net, and Yahoo! Developer Network, has announced the availability of its OpenAPI for partners. 'With the opening of thi...
IT Mill Integrates Google Web Toolkit
IT Mill Ltd has released version 5.0 of its IT Mill Toolkit under the Apache 2.0 open source license. With IT Mill Toolkit 5 developers now have the building blocks for RIAs that will allow them to work with Java alone. Toolkit 5.0 unites client-side AJAX tools wi...
Federal Trade Commission Clears Google's Acquisition of DoubleClick
Google welcomed the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's clearance of its planned acquisition of DoubleClick Inc., a premier provider of display ad serving technology and services. Google announced in April 2007 a definitive agreement to acquire the company for $3.1 b...
New Report Discusses Google Android and Funambol Open Source Impact on Mass Market for Mobile Email
Funambol announced the availability of a free Funambol position paper entitled 'How Google Android Stimulates the Mass Market for Mobile Email and how Funambol Mobile Open Source Monetizes It'. The paper discusses how Android will spur adoption of mobile email by ...
Open Web Developer Summit to Take Place April 21-22, 2008 in New York City
In keeping with the longstanding SYS-CON tradition of being at the very forefront of software development with all its online and offline resources, SYS-CON Media & Events jointly today announced a double whammy, launching both 'Open Web Developer's Journal' (htt ...
SMobile Predicts Spike in Mobile Viruses Once Google Phone Hits the Market
According to SMobile Systems, the launch of Google Phone platform will be among the most positive transformational moments in mobile communications history by further merging computers with mobile devices. But while millions of people will now be able to 'compute ...
emoze's Push-Email Upgrade Supports Google Apps
emoze has upgraded its free software that provides secure push email to mobile phones all over the world, to support Google Apps. This service from Google enables consumers and businesses to use their own custom domain names with several Google products.
SMobile Systems' Security Solution for Google's Android
SMobile Systems has created a mobile security solution for devices coming to market using the Android platform, the Google-initiated, Linux-based open source mobile operating system. On Monday, November 12, the Open Handset Alliance released the Android's software...
db4objects Announces db4o Database as Android Ready
db4objects announced that db4o runs seamlessly on the Android platform, a software stack for mobile devices introduced recently by the Google-backed Open Handset Alliance. The Android stack comes complete with application framework, development environment, tools,...
Credit Suisse Says Google's Good for $900
Credit Suisse has pushed its 12-month price target on Google from $800 to $900, causing the stock to regain some of the 125 bucks it's lost to the market roiling since Google grazed $750 earlier this month. Most of Wall Street believes in its heart that Google wil...
Google To Take Online Storage World By Storm
According to the Wall Street Journal this morning Google's preparing a service that would let users store on its computers essentially all of the files they might keep on their personal-computer hard drives - such as word-processing documents, digital music, vid...
Wireless Google - Next Steps: Bidding for a $4.6BN Chunk of Spectrum from the FCC
A Google spokesman told the Wall Street Journal today that Google is 'making all the necessary preparations to become an applicant to bid' for a chunk of 700MHz spectrum from the FCC. 'Our goal is to make sure that American consumers have more choices in an open a...
Google Announces $10 Million Android Developer Challenge
The Android Developer Challenge will provide $10 million to developers who build mobile applications for Android, a complete, open, and free mobile platform. The Challenge is designed to support the developer community and spark innovation on the Android platform ...
Plaxo Is First Site To Publicly Implement OpenSocial
Less than 24 hours after the launch of OpenSocial, not only was it running live in Plaxo, but there were already several first-class gadgets from top developers like RockYou and Slide. 'This is just the beginning - there's so much more to do to truly open up the s...
Google and 34 Others Launch Android Platform, Form the Open Handset Alliance
A broad alliance of leading technology and wireless companies today joined forces to announce the development of Android, calling it 'the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices.' Google, T-Mobile, HTC, Qualcomm, Motorola and others have col...
Google Goes On Disrupting: Last Week OpenSocial, This Week Open Phones
In a move likely to be hailed as the final blow for the walled gardens favored till now by the wireless operators, Google is leveraging Linux and Java to open up the wireless handset market in the same way that it just launched OpenSocial to break open social netw...
The OpenSocial Era of Cross-Network Social Applications Begins
We already brought word last week of Marc Andreeseen's detailed overview of OpenSocial, but what of other leading participants in the introduction of common APIs to the world of social networking? Here is a round-up of what is being written, thought, and said abou...
OpenSocial: "It's Good for Developers" Says Google's Joe Kraus
Google saw a problem with the way social networks were going, according to Joe Kraus, Director of Product Management, and OpenSocial was its way of overcoming it. Till now, to get an application to run on all the diferent social networks a developer had to customi...
Google's OpenSocial Initiative Gains Massive Momentum
OpenSocial, the industry-backed application programming interface (API) developed by Google to promote interoperability and shared data across all online social networks, is gaining momentum at a rapid pace. The sites that have already committed to supporting Op...
Social Network Wars: Google + Everyone Else vs Facebook
In a move to bolster its attempt to add a social layer on top of the entire suite of Google services, Google yesterday joined other leading social networking players in introducing a common set of standards to allow software developers to write cross-network progr...
Google Sales Surge 57% and Net Income 46% in Quarter 3
Google, whose shares hit a record of $641.41 a week ago, reported that sales in its third quarter had surged by 57% compared with the period a year ago, and net income by 46%. 'We are very pleased with the impressive growth we experienced across our business,' sai...
Google Doodle Celebrates Birthday of the Search Engine That Changed the World
Larry Page and Sergey Brin registered the google.com domain in 1997, and Google was officially launched one year later, making Google 9 this year. Google's birthday has alweays been celebrated on September 27th with a doodle displayed on the homepage, and today is no exception.
Google Is 9 Years Old Today!
Larry Page and Sergey Brin registered the google.com domain in 1997, and Google was officially launched one year later, making Google 9 this year. Google's birthday has alweays been celebrated on September 27th with a doodle displayed on the homepage, and today is no exception.
Will Google Gears Be the Basis for Online/Offline Version of Gmail?
Google Gears specifically allows AJAX web apps to run offline without a net connection. An open source runtime, it allows you to build offline Web applications, so presumably the bright folks at the Googleplex are keen to eat in their own kitchen.
Google Search Page Today Features Children's Author Roald Dahl
September 13 being Roald Dahl's birthday (he was born September 13, 1916), Google is celebrating today with a special celebration logo on the Google search page featuring items and characters from Dahl's world famous children's books.


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