Author: dsellers

Will 3G come to the iPod touch?

One thing no one has talked about is the advent of 3G on the iPad without a voice plan and what that might mean for the iPod touch. Will it get that, too?

I don’t know. Since it’s the iPad’s “little brother” that would make sense. It was something that many folks wanted (and the pundits commented on) when the iPod touch came out. In other words, we all really wanted an iPhone sans the cell phone.

Along the same lines, there are rumors that the next iPhone (the 4G) will have a faster connection. So perhaps we’ll see an iPad 4G and an iPod touch 4G in the not-too-distant future.

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Application made easy with WebSphere Feature Packs

Users of business applications demand rich, interactive experiences and organizations are challenged to bring new and modernized applications to market quickly. These applications must reuse existing applications and services as much as possible and be built for change to easily adapt to new requirements. Applications need to extend to mobile devices while accessing and displaying data in a consistent way. And increasingly, applications must help deliver a social experience of collaboration and communication for your customers.

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REAL Software ships REAL Studio 2010 Release 1

REAL Software, creator of REAL Studio — a cross-platform development tool for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux developers — has begun shipping REAL Studio 2010 Release 1 today.

With this release REAL Software has changed the name of their development tool to REAL Studio. The programming language will continue to be called REALbasic. REAL Studio is available in three editions: Personal Edition, Professional Edition and Enterprise Edition.

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