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Nokia did everything it could probably do with its latest line of phones announced this morning. Sure they're nice phones, but come September 12th when Apple announces the new iPhone, the headlines will be forgotten and nothing much will have changed in the mobile market. Apple and Android will dominate and Microsoft will continue to struggle.

Badgeville, which brings gamification to social software and web sites, adds support for the open source Drupal web content management platform through a partnership with Acquia.

This week we explore building a secure iPad app, the merits of rock star developers and why CIOs should pay attention to enterprise social software.

Microsoft started at close to the bottom of the smartphone marketshare pile, and when you start with just 4 percent of the market, making any significant headway is a serious challenge -- especially when Apple and Google own over 80 percent of the market.

In spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, including the fact every major technology company is using it, the Gartner Hype Cycle is predicting that widespread HTML5 usage is years away. It's quite possible Gartner just got this one wrong.

There were a lot of reasons not to like the ruling last week in the Apple-Samsung trial, but to me the most compelling one was that it altered the balance of power in the technology industry, making Apple far too strong.

This week we explore why Twitter's developer partners are so upset, how to encourage innovation and true confessions of an iPhone developer.

IT is under pressure to reel in data center growth, but how best to go about it? This infographic explores IT attitudes about the best ways to keep data centers from getting out of control.

It's easy to dismiss private clouds as yet another marketing scheme that's sure to transform IT and spread magic fairy dust across the organization, but in one case at least, it worked according to plan.

When an HP executive stated in an interview last week that he believed the next HP tablet could take on the iPad, my first thought was the guy is delusional -- or perhaps he doesn't choose to remember the ill-fated TouchPad, the last tablet entry from HP that last a whole 45 days on the market.

It's Friday and that means 5 links for developers and IT pros. This week we look at the challenges NASA faces updating Curiosity's software from 350 million miles away, why IT might be in danger in the face of sweeping technological changes, and how feline behavior mirrors best code practices.

Acquia, the business that provides enterprise support for the open source web content management system, Drupal; purchased spam-blocker Mollom this week and plans to build it out in to a full-fledge platform -- whether for Drupal or anything else.

While most surveys and my own observations have found that IT pros remain wary of the cloud and the ability to recover from a cloud data loss, a new survey suggests attitudes could be changing. Is this a trend or an aberration?

App.net, a new micro-blogging service launched with a bang last weekend when it blew through its initial fund-raising goal of $500,000. One of the reasons for that success was a pledge to build the site using open APIs. While developers pay a yearly fee, they can build applications on top of the service without being bothered -- in stark contrast to larger social meda companies like Facebook and Twitter.

This week we look at when software kills, why bad programmers get hired and the cloud's role in the online broadcast of the Curiosity landing on Mars.

I'm sure all the cloud naysayers are sitting there smirking after last weekend's epic cloud hack report, but before you gloat, remember that the social engineering methods used to access Mat Honan's account could be used on your data center too.

This week, we look at 15 free or low-cost iPad code editors, endangered IT jobs and how HTML5 video works.

When word emerged last week of a split between the two standards bodies charged with defining the HTML5 standard, it would be natural for developers to be concerned, but the impact of the split depends whom you ask.

Above all, IT needs to ensure that critical systems keep running no matter what, even during a system upgrade because when things go south, it can get ugly in a hurry for you. It's a lesson RBS, a Scottish Bank, has been learning the hard way.

Trust is still a major issue for many IT pros when it comes to the cloud, but by holding back, you could be hurting your company in the name of protecting it.