Drupal is a powerful open source CMS software written in PHP/MySQL. Drupal is flexible, scalable and expandable with enterprise CMS capabilities. Drupal has more than 10500 free contributed modules available in order to expand Drupal's core capabilities and customize its user experience.
Appcelerator has launched Titanium Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Mobile, Desktop and Web application development. Appcelerator is a leading mobile cloud platform for developing rapid native mobile, HTML5, desktop, web and tablet applications through normal web technologies like HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and Ruby. Titanium Studio enables developers to seamlessly build, test and deploy into cross-platform Mobile applications, desktop and Web in a unified development environment. Titanium Studio offers enterprises, from small and medium to large companies, the capabilities to rapidly build rich cloud-connected applications with their existing web teams.
Apple showcased the revamped iOS 5 version at the WWDC conference last week which brings new iPad features such as notification center, iMessage, iCloud, improved browser and many more. During the keynote address, Scott Forstall announced that iOS 5 brings 1500 new APIs and over 200 new features. But, only10 changes were highlighted.
iPad is a Tablet PC developed by Apple that combines the wide screen of a computer and functionality of iPhone. iPad has a 9.7 inch LED backlit Multi-touch interface with a pixel resolution of 1024x768, faster 1 GHz A5 dual-core processor, 512 MB RAM with 9x faster graphics processing, thickness of 8.8mm, two video cameras - front and rear facing, smartcover, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and 3G, AirPlay, AirPrint and Video Mirroring.
Facebook has launched a fully revamped Facebook Questions, where the user can ask questions and share it with their friends. Facebook users can ask a question by clicking the "Ask Question" button at the top of the homepage, or ask questions about friends from their profile page. Users can also add photo or poll to questions. The user's friends are found to be the most likely source of information or advice in a social network and they can also answer to user's questions. Facebook users can concur with an answer by checking a box, or include a different response in the comments section. All answers to Facebook Questions are shown on the question's page.
Apple is expected to release iOS 4.3.1 software update within the next two weeks that will address minor bug fixes and iPad 2 jailbreaking vulnerabilities including the baseband updates for the original iPad and iPhone 3GS, according to BGR. There are still battery issues reported with iOS 4.3 which has been solved by iPhone developers in the the upcoming update v iOS 4.3.1.
The Windows Phone 7 Marketplace has issued a notification that the Facebook app has been updated to version 1.2 to fix some crashing issues. Facebook users experienced random crashing issues with the official Windows Phone 7 application and could not access the application. The latest update has addressed the crashing some users had experienced earlier in Windows Phone 7 development. Windows Phone 7 users can hit the Marketplace search on their phone and access the Facebook app to update to the new version. Facebook developer made a series of changes to its platform for applications and business pages last month including support for HTML IFrames.
Drupal 7.0, the latest version of the open source web content management system, has been officially released by the Drupal community afer three years of unstinted community support and development from thousands of contributors and Drupal developer from more than 200 countries. Drupal 7 comes with a native support for RDFa, a major new semantic web building feature that provides a set of attributes to annotate XHTML documents for machine-readable semantics to embed metadata into websites. RDFa provides more details to search that are not visible to humans, such as latitude and longitude of a venue.
Facepad brings one of the most popular social networking app, Facebook for iPad. Facebook is still without a native iPad app since its launch nine months back. The launch of Facepad for iPad could seriously challenge Friendly for Facebook, one of the App Store’s most successful third party applications launched by Facebook developer.
Apple has launched iOS 4.3 beta 1 for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad, third and fourth generation iPod touch, and Apple TV that caters to developers registered for the iPhone Developer Standard or Enterprise Program, close on the heels of Verizon iPhone release. However, iPhone 3G and second generation iPod touch isn’t in the Apple’s scheme of things and left out of the upgrade. iOS 4.3 beta showcases major improvements such as, AirPlay for Apple TV, Multi-touch Gestures, Personal Hotspot, restored Rotation Lock Switch and many more.