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• PHP development comes to Google Android

  Developers at an open source company in Spain are leading an effort to boost PHP application development for Android-based phones.

• Developers tepid on Windows Phone 7 mobile app beta kit

  Making a critical move in mobile application development, Microsoft on Monday shipped a beta version of its Windows  Phone 7 Developer Tools, but early reaction from some developers was tepid.

• Infor to embrace Microsoft's Azure cloud

  Infor on Monday will announce plans for applications running on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform, deepening the vendors' already close partnership and adding momentum to the industry's shift away from on-premises ERP (enterprise resource planning) software.

• Microsoft promises partners Windows tablets, phones

  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer promised a sports arena filled with Microsoft partners that, within months, a number of Windows-based tablets would be hitting the market, and that the company is urgently working to bring its Windows 7 smartphone OS to market.

• Google App Inventor lets anyone make Android smartphone apps

  Google on Monday revealed a new software tool that lets just about anyone make apps for mobile phones that use its Android software.

• Micro Focus moving mainframe apps to Windows

  With technology being introduced Monday, Micro Focus is offering assistance in migrating Cobol, CICS, and DB2 applications to Microsoft Windows via a managed code version of Micro Focus's mainframe and application modernization technology.

• Microsoft opening CRM app store

  Microsoft plans to take a cue from rival CRM (customer relationship management) vendor Salesforce.com with the upcoming release of CRM 2011, by adding a marketplace site where partners can sell complementary applications.

• Speech-to-sign-language software wins Microsoft dev contest

  Speech-to-sign language translation software written by a team from Thailand won the main category of a Microsoft-sponsored software development contest for students, the Imagine Cup, on Thursday.

• Nokia boosts Java development for Symbian 3 phones

  Nokia, with the Mobile Runtime for Java Applications (JRT), is enabling development of Java applications for Symbian 3 devices, Nokia officials said Thursday.

• JackBe rolls out 'enterprise app store'

  JackBe is applying the app store concept to its own products for building enterprise mashups, applications that pull together data from various systems.

• Microsoft sharpening Razor view engine for ASP.Net

  Microsoft is developing a "view engine" for its ASP.Net Web development platform, optimized around HTML generation via a code-focused templating approach, a Microsoft official said in a blog post.

• Can Oracle pull off Sun portals merger without a hitch?

  Oracle is preparing to launch a major migration of portals that serve customers and technologies gained through its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

• Taiwanese companies join on cloud computing for Asia

  Taiwan's biggest telecommunications company, Chunghwa Telecom, signed an agreement Monday with the world's largest contract laptop maker to jointly develop cloud computing software, services and hardware products aimed at markets in Asia.

• Adobe Flex to gain mobile app capabilities

  Adobe, with the planned "Hero" version of its open source Flex framework for building Web applications, will feature mobile application-building capabilities, the company said this week.

• Microsoft links free SQL database with ASP .Net

  Microsoft is enabling its free SQL CE (SQL Server Compact Edition) database to work within ASP.Net Web applications, thus providing a lightweight database option for ASP.Net Web development, a Microsoft official said this week.