Appcelerator® today launched the Appcelerator Platform, a comprehensive mobile enterprise platform that enables businesses to create, deliver and analyze their entire mobile application portfolio. The Appcelerator Platform empowers enterprises to accelerate their time to market, deliver superior mobile experiences, reduce costs, and manage risk.

Telerik announced the latest release of Kendo UI, a comprehensive framework for building JavaScript and HTML5 websites and mobile apps. With this release, Kendo UI adds server wrappers for PHP and JSP, Windows Phone 8 support, and support for modern web Single Page Applications (SPAs) architecture. Kendo UI is now the only front-end framework to offer server-side wrappers for ASP.NET, PHP and JSP, thus providing a wide range of developers new to HTML5 with a smooth on-ramp, using familiar server-side programming languages. The release also delivers the newest Web and DataViz UI widgets since the original Kendo UI release in November 2011

Compuware Corporation announced Compuware APM AJAX Edition 4, the industry's most advanced cross-browser diagnostics tool. This new version enables developers to test and diagnose performance issues across all recent and legacy browser versions in Internet Explorer and Firefox. To date, nearly 100,000 development and testing experts have downloaded AJAX Edition and rely on it to solve the most challenging client-side performance problems.

Appcelerator®, the leading mobile platform, announced its plans to deliver a mobile application development solution for Tizen, a Linux-based software system that will support a broad range of computing devices including smartphones, tablets, connected TVs and automotive in-vehicle infotainment systems. Titanium ® support for Tizen will be available for download at the end of March, and a common application store will be available for all Tizen devices in May. Appcelerator is collaborating with the Tizen Association to offer incentives to developers of the first 500 approved apps to be migrated to the new platform.

Methods & Tools - the free e-magazine for software developers, testers and project managers - has just published its Winter 2012 issue with the following articles:
* Testing Performance of Mobile Apps - Part 2: A Walk on the Server Side
* Agile Facilitation & Neuroscience: Transforming Information into Action
* Test Driven Development Traps
* Data Management Tools for Embedded Application Development
* JSHint - a JavaScript Code Quality Tool
* No More Mocks in NoSQL Applications with NoSQLUnit

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Early this year, Altia, Incorporated announced support of Freescale® Semiconductor’s new Vybrid™ controller solution devices. The winning combination of Freescale's powerful silicon for multi-screen graphics and Altia's Design and DeepScreen user interface engineering tools enable Vybrid controller solution customers to quickly and successfully implement and market products with sophisticated graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Today, Altia announces development of a new product to support a new family of products from Freescale Semiconductor – the i.MX 6 series processors.

As mobile computing is becoming more and more important in software development, XBOSoft is organizing a survey to assess the state of software testing and quality assurance for mobile apps. The purpose of this survey is to collect data on how different QA organizations conduct mobile testing and QA and to analyze and present this data so organizations can compare their own mobile QA efforts with industry standards and best practices. This short survey includes 20 questions and should take only 5-10 minutes of your time. Participants will be able to receive a report of the survey and get a chance to win a gift card.

You can participate to the 2013 State of Mobile Testing survey on https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/mobiletestingsurvey

SmartBear Software today announced TestComplete(TM) 9.0, the latest release of its award-winning automated testing tool. TestComplete 9.0 introduces a new approach to cross-browser testing that simplifies test reuse across Microsoft(R) Internet Explorer(R), Mozilla(R) Firefox(R) and Google Chrome(TM) browsers. Additionally, TestComplete now supports HTML5 testing, adding to its extensive list of supported rich Internet applications (RIAs).

The entire Test Studio crew has been working hard on this ground-breaking release for us. Test Studio for iOS offers the same great approach to mobile testing as you find in our previous releases of Test Studio Standalone and Express. You’re able to quickly build up powerful, flexible tests on both native iOS applications as well as testing browser-based applications running on your iOS device. Building hybrid applications? We’ve got that covered too!

SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 12, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- appMobi today announced the public release of version 1.0 of the jqMobi open source HTML5 mobile app framework (jqMobi.com). appMobi originally created and open sourced jqMobi to remedy the poor cross-platform performance of JavaScript frameworks on iOS and Android. Frameworks like jqMobi speed the development of HTML5-based mobile apps that are deployed as Web apps or as hybrid iOS and Android apps created using appMobi or PhoneGap/Cordova.

WALTHAM, MA, FEBRUARY 16, 2012 – Telerik, an end-to-end provider of software application lifecycle and content management solutions, today announced the immediate availability of its Q1 2012 Release. This release provides major updates available across the entire Telerik developer tools portfolio and is available for immediate download at: http://Telerik.com/download.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--jQ.Mobi (www.jqmobi.com), a new open source mobile development framework makes its public debut today. jQ.Mobi is a mobile-optimized, HTML5 rewrite of the ubiquitous jQuery framework which is used on over 50% of all desktop websites. jQ.Mobi provides stunning speed improvement (2.5X faster than desktop jQuery), size reduction (only 3K vs. 36K) and code efficiency, with a particular focus on delivering an identically high quality user experience to both iOS and Android devices. Mobile developers can join the community and download the code at www.jqmobi.com.

WALTHAM, MA, NOVEMBER 16, 2011 – Telerik, an end-to-end provider of software application lifecycle and content management solutions, today announced a diverse array of updates, new tools, and product enhancements being implemented across its full developer productivity portfolio.

Rackspace is seeking a talented Front End Java Developer on numerous web application teams. This developer will be working primarily in HTML, CSS, and Javascript building word class interfaces for Rackspace services. As a software developer at Rackspace, you will be working in a high-energy team, writing great software by using the best engineering practices in the industry today. Passion for all aspects of software development is a must.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – October 24, 2011 – Appcelerator®, the leading integrated mobile platform for rapidly developing native and mobile web applications using open web technologies, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Particle Code, the DEMO God 2010 award-winning mobile gaming and HTML5 development platform. The acquisition enables Appcelerator to expand its world-class platform used by over 1.6 million developers to become the first mobile platform to offer an integrated native, hybrid, and HTML5 web application solution. The move accelerates Appcelerator’s position as the leading cross-platform development framework, now able to offer both web and native app development from a singular code base to developers in every app category. The Particle Code team has joined Appcelerator’s iOS, Android, and HTML5 core platform group in Mountain View. The acquisition is the second this year for Appcelerator following its acquisition of Aptana in January.