Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has evidently called in a few markers and persuaded some of his friends to stand up with him in his legal battle over Java against Google and its Android operating system. On Tuesday, the last day to file amicus briefs supporting Oracle’s appeal of the district court decision flaying Oracle’s infringement case, the Federal Circuit of Appeals was flooded with paper (figuratively speaking) backing Oracle’s position on the copyrightability of APIs and Android’s infringement of Java. District Court Judge Alsup found that “So long as the specific code used to implement a method is different, anyone is free under the Copyright Act to write his or her own code to carry out exactly the same function or specification of any methods used in the Java API.”

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HTML5: 10 Provocative Predictions For The Future

Compuware Corporation on Thursday announced the 2013 winners of its annual Best of the Web awards honoring the top performing web, mobile and streaming sites. The annual Best of the Web awards recognize the ‘best of the best’ companies across six major industries -- banking, brokerage, insurance, media, retail and travel. The winners in each industry earned top honors for web, mobile, or streaming performance excellence based on the average response time, availability and consistency of their sites throughout 2012. The Best of the Web award winners work hard all year to ensure that their web, mobile and streaming site performances are differentiators that drive business. They also make a commitment to continuous improvement, as they evolve their sites to meet customers’ needs and expectations and to provide exceptional customer experiences.

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Leading authorities on .NET and mobile app development discuss the latest in HTML5, visualization, line of business apps, productivity and more

WALTHAM, MA, February 21, 2013 – Telerik, an end-to-end provider of software development, lifecycle and content management tools and solutions, today announced the lineup for its Q1 2013 Webinar Week series. Running March 4-8, Telerik will host nine educational sessions with topics touching on much of the company’s product portfolio. To view additional details and to register for this insightful series, please go to http://www.telerik.com/whats-new.

Discussion points for individual sessions will include new product features and updates, best practices and informative how-to’s on tools and solutions comprising of Telerik’s award-winning RadControls toolsets (including Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 controls), Telerik Reporting, OpenAccess ORM, the Just* developer productivity suite, Kendo UI and more. Specific product details on the newly announced Q1 developer tools release can be found on http://www.telerik.com/whats-new.

The can’t miss lineup for Webinar Week includes:

• Monday, March 4
  • “Enhance Your WinForms LOB Applications with PDF Viewer, PivotGrid, and Reporting,” 11:00 a.m. EST
  • “Impress Your End-Users with New Visualizations in Telerik Reporting. Manage Large Data Models with OpenAccess,” 11:30 a.m. EST
• Tuesday, March 5
  • “Get the Most Out of AJAX Web Development with PivotGrid, Grid Model Binding Support, and Integration with SharePoint 2013,” 11:00 a.m. EST
  • “Skip the JavaScript! Build Awesome HTML5 Apps with Kendo UI’s MVC Server Wrappers,” 12:00 p.m. EST
• Wednesday, March 6
  • “Dramatically Improve Your Next XAML Enterprise Application with PivotGrid, Spreadsheet, and Telerik Reporting,” 11:00 a.m. EST
  • “Integration That’s Not Just Lip Service: Tying Test Studio Together With TeamPulse and Telerik Controls,” 12:00 p.m. EST
• Thursday, March 7
  • “Amp Up Your Visual Studio Productivity with the New Features in JustCode, JustMock, JustTrace, and JustDecompile,” 11:00 a.m. EST
• Friday, March 8
  • “Bring Power, Convenience, and Meaningful Display of Data to Windows 8 UI using the All-New Grid, AutoCompleteBox, and New Chart,” 11:00 a.m. EST
  • “Develop Engaging Consumer and Enterprise Apps with the Most Recent Additions to Windows Phone 8 Controls,” 12:00 p.m. EST

*A list of Asia Pacific times can be found here - http://www.telerik.com/developer-productivity-tools/whats-new-apac.aspx.

To register for Telerik’s Q1 2013 Webinar Week and for information, please go to http://www.telerik.com/whats-new. Seats are limited to 1,000 per webinar.

About Telerik
Telerik is a market-leading provider of end-to-end solutions for application development, automated testing, agile project management, reporting, and content management across all major Microsoft development platforms. Telerik’s award-winning software development products enable enterprises and organizations of every size to generate tangible productivity gains, reduce time-to-market, and stay on time and under budget. With tens of thousands of users in more than 90 countries around the world, Telerik’s customers include numerous Fortune 2000 companies, academic institutions, governments, and non-profit organizations. For additional information about Telerik, please visit www.telerik.com or follow @telerik on Twitter.

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Press Contacts:

Carmen Hughes
Ignite Public Relations
Tel: 650.227.3280 #101

carmen@ignitepr.com

Erica Burns
Telerik, Inc.
Tel: 888.365.2779 #154
Erica.Burns@telerik.com

New data components and deeper levels of integration with Microsoft’s core technologies bring award-winning developer tools to a new level of competitive superiority

WALTHAM, MA, Feb. 20, 2013 – Telerik, an end-to-end provider of software development, lifecycle and content management tools and solutions, today announced the general availability of its Q1 2013 suite of .NET development tools, DevCraft. With this new release, the company delivers on its promise to advance its superior UI controls, productivity tools and reporting tools. Some of the features now available include grid components and data visualizations for Windows 8, new and improved UI controls, updated frameworks and data engines across the portfolio of tools and solutions as well as advances to Telerik’s free tools.

“Q1 2013 brings the developer experience to the next level. With each new iteration, we are advancing the feature set based on the feedback of our knowledgeable customers,” said Chris Sells, Vice President, Developer Tools, Telerik. “It is because of this close collaboration that we’re excited about features such as RadPivotGrid with OLAP support. We work hard to build what the market wants, every time, which has helped us build our reputation as a market leader for .NET developer tools and components.”

With the Q1 release Telerik is adding a series of new tools to its already robust collection of UI controls, productivity and reporting tools:

• RadGrid for Windows 8 built from the ground up for Windows 8 touch environments and the Windows Store, enabling quick visualization, group, filter, sort and more of complex data in a light-weight, native and responsive UI.
• All ASP.NET AJAX controls now work seamlessly in SharePoint 2013 farm solutions. Additionally, Telerik put a new Persistence Framework for ASP.NET AJAX into beta that will allow persistent control settings between sessions. The company also enhanced support for iOS6 and Windows 8 on touch devices.
• Simplified data management with the new OLAP support for PivotGrid for ASP.NET AJAX, WinForms and XAML, as well as .NET 4.5 Model Binding support for the AJAX Grid, ListView and TreeList controls.
• A codeless OLAP charting engine in Telerik Reporting for quick creation of any chart, including rose and sparkline.
• Unique HTML5 features for RadControls for ASP.NET and its Image Editor control provide drawing capabilities and new built-in filters (sepia, hue/saturation and gray scale).
• New WinForms PDFViewer control and improved ChartView with support for multiple axes, drill-up/down and smart labels.
• New Spreadsheet (CTP) control in Telerik’s XAML suites allow users to work with data directly in the application. The Silverlight and WPF suites also come with new BarcodeReader and TileList (Beta) controls, as well as improved touch support.
• JustCode improves its warnings and errors for faster and better programming, and adds first-class support for LESS. Telerik has also improved JustMock, which adds fully profiled automocking, and enhanced JustTrace with continuous profiling.
• Kendo UI ASP.NET MVC adds an HTML5 front-end for MVC applications while the Kendo UI helpers handle the JavaScript. It includes automated AJAX data binding that can be used with any ViewEngine and also provides Visual Studio helpers for faster configuration.

Telerik has continued to invest heavily in both its commercial and free product lines. New is the JustDecompile Plugin Manager which enables developers to conveniently manage all plugins within the product UI. Decompilation is also faster and more accurate than ever. OpenAccess ORM simplifies the complex management of large data models by providing developers with an easy option for splitting them into several diagrams. In addition, with this version OpenAccess ORM becomes the first enterprise-grade ORM that supports streaming of large data files from the database with a memory buffer.

These and other enhancements are now available within the Q1 2013 release. For more information on Telerik’s DevCraft, please go to www.telerik.com.

About Telerik
Telerik is a market-leading provider of end-to-end solutions for application development, automated testing, agile project management, reporting, and content management across all major Microsoft development platforms. Telerik’s award-winning software development products enable enterprises and organizations of every size to generate tangible productivity gains, reduce time-to-market, and stay on time and under budget. With tens of thousands of users in more than 90 countries around the world, Telerik’s customers include numerous Fortune 2000 companies, academic institutions, governments, and non-profit organizations. For additional information about Telerik, please visit www.telerik.com or follow @telerik on Twitter.

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Press Contacts:

Carmen Hughes
Ignite Public Relations
Tel: 650.227.3280 #101

carmen@ignitepr.com

Erica Burns
Telerik, Inc.
Tel: 888.365.2779 #154
Erica.Burns@telerik.com

App Store

A Closer Look at the Advanced Mobile Technologies

Well it seems that because PCs are dying and servers aren’t growing much, Intel or, in this case, Intel Media is going into the television business, acing out Apple, which may have walked away because of licensing issues or even bandwidth despite what Steve Jobs told his biographer before he died about cracking the TV code and creating an integrated TV set. Intel’s set-box will reportedly store programming and let users catch up on what they’ve missed when they can. There’s no indication of a launch date, or pricing or how far back a viewer can go.

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Welcome to Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5. HTML5 is predicted to be the dominant development environment for enterprise mobility over the next several years. The questions are when and where should HTML5 be used today. In this weekly update on HTML5 we report on this ongoing debate and other relevant news. Microsoft has launched a new site, http://www.modern.ie/, to further promote the use of standard HTML5 that works well in any browser and to provide tools to aid Web developers. Stating native apps limited them in flexibility and integration, and the marketplace is demanding more flexibility than offered through a mobile app, financial technology provider Scivantage has launched a new HTML5-based mobile brokerage platform and investment apps.

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In today’s environment, information security is crucial for everyone. Security needs vary widely from protecting social security numbers to guarding corporate strategy. Information espionage can occur at all levels. A human resources employee or manager takes employee personnel files home to work on them and unfortunately loses them or they get stolen. An employee’s notes to a supervisor regarding a case are intercepted and read via monitoring software by an outside hacker. The resulting damages can be costly and could be avoided by protecting assets with encryption technology. This article demonstrates the implementation of the Cryptography header cited in the previous article and illustrates how to encrypt and digitally sign files using a hybrid combination of asymmetric public/private key encryption and symmetric encryption. A symmetric key is used to encrypt the file and the asymmetric public key encrypts the symmetric key. The asymmetric private key decrypts the symmetric key which in turn is used to decrypt the encrypted file.

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“SafeBridge”, created in response to recent crime incidents in India, will be available for Android, iPhone and BlackBerry devices

New Delhi, India, February 6, 2013 – Telerik, a leading end-to-end provider of software development, lifecycle and content management tools and solutions, today announced the launch of “SafeBridge” - a new, free mobile application for personal safety in India. In response to recent crime incidents against women in India, Telerik’s team managed within 2 weeks – and with just 4 days for development by only 1 developer - to build, test and launch the beta version of the app on the Android market. The beta version of the application is currently available for both low-end and high-end Android phones and will soon be available for iPhone and BlackBerry devices.

Telerik’s “SafeBridge”, created to help vulnerable groups such as women, children, professionals, working late at night, foreign tourists and city visitors, allows users to send emergency SMSs with GPS information to preset lists of trusted contacts. There is no need for any registration to use the app.

Abhishek Kant, country manager of Telerik India, said: “Since opening our office in New Delhi in 2012, we at Telerik have made it our priority to be active citizens of this society. The urgency of the recent incidents required a prompt response and thanks to Telerik’ products, we are able to quickly build the application for all types of phone users.”

Using the safety app is simple. At the start of the application, the user first must preset the contacts of friends and relatives who will be notified in the case of an imminent threat. To decrease response time in emergency situations the app involves just the one-touch function of simply pressing a “HELP ME!” button to send out an SMS with GPS information. In the cases when the threat is over, there is an “I’m Safe” button to immediately notify contacts that everything is alright. “SafeBridge” can function with limited internet or no internet availability on the phone.

Telerik’s “SafeBridge” allows the user to personalize the “help” and “safe” messages. The application also provides a “Track Me” feature, which includes sending out the user’s current location at pre-determined intervals. The application also includes a Directory of police stations in Delhi. Going ahead, Telerik’s team plans to add other Indian cities to this police directory as well as city-by-city contact information of hospitals and NGOs in the country. The app will also include the option to report crimes the user witnesses but may not be the victim of.

The safety application is created using Telerik’s products Icenium, an integrated cloud environment for mobile app development and Kendo UI, comprehensive HTML5 and JavaScript framework for modern web and mobile app development. The combination of the two products allows the app’s creators to quickly and effortlessly build the application for all types of devices, without the need to install platform software development kits.

The application for Android can be downloaded for free here. One can also search for the term “safebridge” in the Google Play store to get the app. For latest news about the app, visit SafeBridge’s Facebook page.

About Telerik
Telerik is a market-leading provider of end-to-end solutions for application development, automated testing, agile project management, reporting, and content management across all major Microsoft development platforms. Telerik’s award-winning software development products enable enterprises and organizations of every size to generate tangible productivity gains, reduce time-to-market, and stay on time and under budget. With tens of thousands of users in more than 90 countries around the world, Telerik’s customers include numerous Fortune 2000 companies, academic institutions, governments, and non-profit organizations. For additional information about Telerik, please visit www.telerik.com or follow @telerik on Twitter.

About Telerik India
Telerik opened its office in India at the beginning of 2012 and since then has been making inroads across the country, signing numerous customers and partners. Some of Telerik’s enterprise customers in India include Infosys, Cognizant, Honeywell, Dell and Symantec. Telerik also has strong partnerships with CSC and Idealake. Over time the company is planning community initiatives such as events and training sessions focusing on topics such as mobile app development, hybrid app development, development tools, quality assurance, agile development and more. In December 2012, the company organized the first “Telerik Test Professionals Conference” in Bangalore, attended by 85 test professionals and in January 2013 – the first Telerik “Developers Conference”, attended by 120 IT professionals.

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Press Contacts:

Erica Burns and Alexandra Mechkova
Telerik Inc.
Tel: 91 124 4300 987/+91 124 4300 996

media@telerik.com

How Hybrid Apps Are Accelerating HTML5 Adoption

With 8 categories and more than 120 nominations, winners demonstrated the best in creativity, design, user experience and overall presentation

Waltham, MA – February 4, 2012 – Telerik, an end-to-end provider of software development, lifecycle and content management tools and solutions, today announced the winners of the “2012 Website of the Year Awards,” presented by Sitefinity CMS. The awards honor the best websites developed using the Sitefinity CMS platform during 2012 in eight categories: Consumer Goods, Education, Healthcare, Government, Non-Profit, Ecommerce, Intranet and Best-Designed Website Implemented by a Partner.

This year more than 120 organizations were nominated for their website creativity, design, user experience and overall presentation. After narrowing the field, voting was opened up to the community at large. After a very competitive vote, the results are as follows:

• Consumer Goods and Services: BASF Care Creations, developed by AAG - http://www.carecreations.basf.com/index.html
• Ecommerce: Voyager Estate, developed by Vivid Group - http://www.voyagerestate.com.au/, developed by Vivid Group
• Education: We are Teachers, developed by Pipeline Interactive - http://www.weareteachers.com/
• Healthcare: National Stem Cell Foundation of Australia, developed by Websilk - http://www.stemcellfoundation.net.au/
• Best-Designed Website Implemented by a Partner: TATA Global Beverages, developed by Communisis - http://www.tataglobalbeverages.com/
• Government: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, developed by Vivid Group - http://www.rirdc.gov.au/
• Intranet: FranklinCovey Co., developed by FranklinCovey
• Non-Profit: Vision Australia, developed by Websilk - http://www.visionaustralia.org/



“When we decided to rewrite our intranet site, we selected the Sitefinity CMS for its ease-of-use, rich features, and its ability to integrate with other systems. We use Sitefinity for both our intranet and public website. We wanted a system that would allow our users to quickly make changes to the content and keep it fresh, allowing us to better engage our employees and keep them coming back to the intranet for more. Just as important, we have used Telerik products for years and have always been impressed with their world-class support and continuous attention to making their products better with each update,” said David Jackson, FranklinCovey Co.

“Voting was very competitive this year, so I’d like to take a moment to thank all who participated, including our more than 120 nominees and those who took the time to vote,” said Martin Kirov, executive vice president, Sitefinity. “It’s inspiring to see how creative people can be when developing with Sitefinity. This year’s winners were, without a doubt, exceptional. Congratulations to them and to all of our customers who were able to launch a successful web presence with the help of Sitefinity.”

More information about the contest and the winners is available on the “Website of the Year” page.

About Sitefinity CMS
Sitefinity is a web content management platform developed by Telerik. Trusted and used by thousands of customers worldwide, Sitefinity’s ASP.NET online business platform empowers business to engage, convert and retain customers on the web. With the product’s usability and flexibility developers, marketing end-users and IT managers are able to work more effectively, helping to grow their business. Sitefinity’s customers further benefit from Telerik’s ongoing innovation and industry-leading technical support. For more information, visit: www.sitefinity.com.

About Telerik
Telerik is a market-leading provider of end-to-end solutions for application development, automated testing, agile project management, reporting, and content management across all major Microsoft development platforms. Telerik’s award-winning software development products enable enterprises and organizations of every size to generate tangible productivity gains, reduce time-to-market, and stay on time and under budget. With tens of thousands of users in more than 90 countries around the world, Telerik’s customers include numerous Fortune 2000 companies, academic institutions, governments, and non-profit organizations. For additional information about Telerik, please visit www.telerik.com or follow @telerik on Twitter.

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Press Contacts:

Carmen Hughes
Ignite Public Relations
Tel: 650.227.3280 #101

carmen@ignitepr.com

Erica Burns
Telerik, Inc.
Tel: 888.365.2779 #154
Erica.Burns@telerik.com

These alternatives could break the grip of iOS and Android for mobile developers

Hard drives are dying and Flash is coming into its own. So, sensing an inflection point, STEC, which has a long history in Flash, figures to take advantage of the opportunity provided by the fashionably huge volumes of data of late that have to go somewhere, the increasing availability of Flash-aware apps, the decreasing cost of Flash – though it still isn’t exactly cheap – the higher performance that’s expanding its use cases and the smaller form factors that cater to energy concerns. It’s fielding a couple of hefty 2TB solid-state drives along with a new version of its caching software. The widgets, an industry first, are either PCIe or Serial-attach SCSI drives, each reportedly supporting unlimited writes. The EnhanceIO caching software improves their performance, manageability and usability, while optimizing for virtualization applications across Windows and Linux environments.

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Absolutely Global - Telerik's Cover Story in Forbes Magazine Bulgaria

SYS-CON Events announced today that Supermicro, a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and innovation, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. Super Micro Computer, Inc. or Supermicro®, a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and innovation, is a premier provider of end-to-end green computing solutions for Enterprise IT, Datacenter, Cloud Computing, HPC and Embedded Systems worldwide. Supermicro's advanced server Building Block Solutions® offers a vast array of modular, interoperable components for building energy-efficient, application-optimized, computing solutions. This broad line of products includes servers, blades, GPU systems, workstations, motherboards, chassis, power supplies, storage technologies, networking solutions and SuperRack® cabinets/accessories. Architecture innovations include Twin Architecture, SuperServer®, SuperBlade®, MicroCloud, Super Storage Bridge Bay (SBB), Double-Sided Storage™, Universal I/O (UIO) and WIO expansion technology all of which deliver unrivaled performance and value.

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Winner to receive $30,000 and trip to Hong Kong to participate in a one-week boot camp with AcceleratorHK

Waltham, MA, January 31, 2013 – Telerik, an end-to-end provider of software development, lifecycle and content management tools and solutions, today announced the Telerik Virtual Accelerator for Windows 8, a three month accelerator for early stage startups focused on building Windows 8 apps. The initial entry program will launch on January 31 running through March 15, 2013 and will enable startups to submit their Windows 8 app prototypes to a panel of judges for consideration.

The winning entry will receive a $30,000 investment from Telerik, a one week boot camp in Hong Kong to participate in the AcceleratorHK program as well as three months of virtual mentorship by Paul Orlando, entrepreneur, AcceleratorHK director and TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2012 Hackathon winner. There will also be a Community Choice winner, voted on by the developer community at large.

Qualified entrants must submit their applications by no later than March 15, 2013. Five finalists will be announced on April 1, 2013 and of those finalists a winner will be selected and announced on April 15, 2013.

The contest is open to any early stage startup who believes Windows 8 is the future and has an idea for an app to support that vision. The team needs at least one technical founder and one non-technical co-founder. There are no geographic restrictions, but strong technical, design and business skills by those who have made some progress via concept, prototype or existing service is required.

“We speak with developers every day who are creating some really innovative and exciting apps,” said Stephen Forte, chief strategy officer at Telerik and AcceleratorHK founder. “We wanted an opportunity to get in on the ground floor with some of these leading edge individuals and what better way than by establishing an accelerator program to help them get to where they want to be, faster and more effectively.”

The program is organized by Telerik, creator of RadControls for Windows 8, the number one native toolset for building Windows 8 apps. With Telerik thousands of developers create fascinating, touch-enabled Windows 8 apps that users around the world have adopted. Built from the ground up, Telerik RadControls for Windows 8 offers the same intuitive UI and UX, whether developing in XAML or HTML.

The AcceleratorHK is an accelerator program based in Hong Kong, focused on mobile startups and hybrid development. Lead by serial entrepreneurs Stephen Forte and Paul Orlando, AcceleratorHK has a full program in the Lean Startup and Customer Development techniques, mentorship and technical help to make mobile apps development easier.

For more information on the Telerik Virtual Accelerator for Windows 8, go to www.telerik.com/AcceleratorWin8.

About Telerik
Telerik is a market-leading provider of end-to-end solutions for application development, software testing, agile project management, reporting, and content management across all major Microsoft development platforms. Telerik’s award-winning software development products enable enterprises and organizations of every size to generate tangible productivity gains, reduce time-to-market, and stay on time and under budget. With tens of thousands of users in more than 90 countries around the world, Telerik’s customers include numerous Fortune 2000 companies, academic institutions, governments, and non-profit organizations. For additional information about Telerik, please visit www.telerik.com or follow @telerik on Twitter.

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Press Contacts:

Carmen Hughes
Ignite Public Relations
Tel: 650.227.3280 #101

carmen@ignitepr.com

Erica Burns
Telerik, Inc.
Tel: 888.365.2779 #154
Erica.Burns@telerik.com

My Predictions for Agile in 2013

We're experimenting with making particularly useful milestones available as releases. 5.0b2 is now available on the openlaszlo.org website under Nightly builds. See: http://www.openlaszlo.org/download

5.0b2 is a milestone towards 5.0 and contains significant bug fixes that may be useful to you. It is NOT fully tested nor is it a qualified or recommended release. It is, however, a milestone that focuses on DHTML bugs and you may find it useful in your development.

You can review the bug fixes here: http://wiki.openlaszlo.org/5.0b2_Release_Notes