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• Intel tool will convert iPhone apps to run on Intel chips

  Intel is developing a tool that will make it easier for developers to port iPhone applications to Intel-based smartphones, tablets and other devices, a company executive said Tuesday.

• Black Duck buys Ohloh.net open source project site

  Black Duck Software on Tuesday is announcing its acquisition of Ohloh.net, which features a free public directory of open source software.

• Lack of BlackBerry migration no bar for RIM PlayBook developers

  Although the full application development story is still being ironed out for Research in Motion's newly announced PlayBook tablet, developers are anxious to get their hands on one and start building anyway.

• Wrap-up: Top 5 stories at BlackBerry DevCon 2010

  Research In Motion (RIM) last week held its third annual BlackBerry Developer Conference (DevCon) in San Francisco, and the Canadian company made a variety of interesting developer- and BlackBerry-user-related announcements, not the least of which was the unveiling of the brand new BlackBerry PlayBook tablet computer and the associated Tablet OS.

• Microsoft ramps up Windows Phone app store

  Looking to provide the best shopping experience for mobile applications, Microsoft is engaging developers in a phased approach with its upcoming Windows Phone Marketplace relaunch.

• Microsoft: Windows Phone 7 will turn us into a mobile contender

  Acknowledging Microsoft's current, non-contending status in the smartphone space, a Microsoft official Thursday stressed that the new Windows Phone 7 platform would get the company back into the race.

• SugarCRM offers CRM to OEMs, and readies native iPhone app

  SugarCRM has repackaged its open-source, browser-based customer relationship management platform to make it easier for other vendors to put their own brand on products and services built with SugarCRM, the company announced Thursday. But it is also working on a native iPhone app that will put the brand under the noses of many more users.

• Rhomobile brings iPhone app dev to Windows PCs

  Mobile application development tools vendor Rhomobile plans to unveil on Wednesday an extension to its software-as-a-service platform that will enable developers to build applications for Apple's iPhone via a Windows PC.

• CodePlex Foundation now called Outercurve

  Seeking to distance itself even further from Microsoft, the CodePlex Foundation has officially changed its name to the Outercurve Foundation, the company announced Tuesday.

• RIM jumps into tablet game

  Look out, Apple. BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) is now in the tablet business.

• RIM shows off Web-based BlackBerry development platform

  While declining to discuss rumors of a planned pad computer, Research In Motion (RIM)  did roll out on Monday a Web-based application development platform for its BlackBerry smartphone, complementing the existing native development paradigm.

• New BlackBerry developer tools, ad services for 'Super Apps'

  Developing applications for BlackBerry smartphones is about to get easier and more enticing, for both consumer application developers and enterprise app makers.

• Tablet, phone software developers face multicore challenge

  Writing applications for devices like tablets and smartphones could become more challenging as CPUs and hardware accelerators are added to mobile chips, experts agreed at a processor conference on Monday.

• EU drops two Apple iPhone antitrust investigations

  The European Commission has dropped two antitrust investigations concerning Apple's iPhone after the company reversed two policies that drew the regulator's scrutiny.

• Coders must reprogram how they write for Wall Street

  As high-performance computing (HPC) becomes more important in helping financial services companies deal with a rising tsunami of data, there's growing angst on Wall Street about a dearth of skilled programmers who can write for multicore chip architectures and parallel computing systems.