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Open-source mobile framework supports Android
A startup called Rhomobile announced the first formal release of its dual-licensed, open-source framework for smartphones. Rhodes 1.0 enables “write-once” development, using HTML and Ruby, of native smartphone applications for iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian, and now Android, the company says.
Rhodes reduces development costs by “up to five times” by eliminating the need to develop [...]
C dominated 2008’s open-source project nursery
C overwhelmingly proved the most popular programming language for thousands of new open-source projects in 2008, according to license tracker Black Duck Software.
The company, which monitors 180,000 projects on nearly 4,000 sites, said almost half – 47 per cent – of new projects last year used C. Black Duck said 17,000 new open-source projects were [...]