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• Nokia and Optus tease developers with cash prizes

  Optus and Nokia have teamed up to offer up to $5000 in a mobile application developer contest.

• Devops cloud conference heads down under

  The inaugural Australian Devops Down Under cloud computing conference is scheduled for Sydney next month and as its tag line goes, is open to developers who administer systems and administrators who write code.
  

• Twitter courts developers with new tools

  Twitter is promising new tools for developers to help them make better use of the 55 million tweets being pumped out every day by people who use its service.

• Microsoft exec: The world runs on software

  Declaring that software runs the world and developers are the engine behind software, a high-level Microsoft official Monday unleashed the company's latest software development platform, Visual Studio 2010 and the accompanying .Net Framework 4.

• Visual Studio 2010 release ups testing tools ante

  Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2010 with a big emphasis on collaboration, extensibility and more rapid testing, which is winning fans among developers.

• Adobe evangelist tells Apple: 'Go screw yourself'

  Responding to a change in the licensing terms for developers building applications for version 4.0 of the iPhone, a technology evangelist for Adobe Systems has told Apple to go perform an anatomically impossible act.

• Aussie entrepreneur: Adrian Di Marco

  Australians are a resourceful lot. Who would have thought that one of Australia’s largest public software companies in Australia would begin life in a demountable in the car park of a hide factory? From such humble beginnings, ASX-listed enterprise software company, TechnologyOne, has grown to employ more than 700 people and post revenues of $122.5 million. The company has more than 800 customers, competing with the likes of Oracle and SAP to deliver high-end software to enterprise.

• Myriad tool converts Java apps for Android phones

  Mobile software company Myriad Group announced J2Android, which will make it possible for Java-based mobile applications to run on Android-based phones, the company said on Monday.

• IBM adding development and test offering to public cloud

  IBM will soon offer software development and testing services through its public cloud, adding to a private cloud option launched in June 2009, the company said Tuesday.

• IBM looks to pair security technologies for software development

  Honing in on the need for more security in application development, IBM Rational is planning an enterprise-level  product that features two separately acquired technologies for security testing and code scanning.

• Youi stays agile with in-house software development

  When automotive and home insurer Youi formed less than 18 months ago, its technology head saw in-house software development as a means to stay agile.

• Source code management a weak spot in Aurora attacks

  Companies should take extra steps to secure their source code from the type of targeted attacks that hit Google, Adobe, Intel and others over the past few months.

• Google Go captures developers' imaginations

  Less than four months after its unveiling at an early, experimental stage, Google Go looks promising to developers who say it offers significant improvements over other programming languages.

• Victorian government kicks off $100,000 app development contest

  The Victorian government is offering up to $100,000 to software developers in a contest to create applications out of 90 data sets on the data.vic.gov.au website.

• Microsoft sets app dev investment priorities

  Microsoft's to-do list in the software development space includes continued or new investments in multiple areas, including cloud computing, the Web, parallel computing, devices, and agile and distributed development, a company executive said in a blog entry on Tuesday.