Back in April when we launched Java support, we gave the first 10,000 developers who signed up access to the new runtime. In case you havent heard, we recently announced at Google I/O that App Engine for Java signup is now open. Were excited to see more developers joining our community!

For those who missed Google I/O or want a refresher on the sessions, the videos are now posted online. From building a complex and scalable app on App Engine to offline processing, there are a lot of things to learn from these sessions. You can find a more detailed write up of the App Engine sessions in this post to the Google Code Blog, but heres the complete list:

• From Spark Plug to Drive Train: Life of an App Engine Request


• Building Scalable, Complex Apps on App Engine


• Offline Processing on App Engine: a Look Ahead


• The Softer Side Of Schemas - Mapping Java Persistence Standards To the Google App Engine Datastore


• Transactions Across Datacenters (and Other Weekend Projects)


• App Engine Nitty-Gritty: Scalability, Fault Tolerance, and Integrating Amazon EC2


• JRuby and Ioke on Google App Engine for Java


• App Engine: Now Serving Java


• A Design for a Distributed Transaction Layer for Google App Engine


• Connecting The Clouds: Integrating Google App Engine for Java with Force.com


• ThoughtWorks on App Engine for Java: An Enterprise Cumulonimbus?


• Groovy and Grails in App Engine

Apart from the sessions, we also had a Developer Sandbox featuring App Engine partners and customers. We got a chance to interview and ask many of them to share their experience developing on App Engine. Check out these video interviews to get more insight to App Engine:

• 3Scale Networks


• Best Buy


• Caucho Technology


• EZasset


• Gigapan.org


• LifeAware


• LingoSpot


• WalkScore

Last but not least, weve also made available the handy Python cheat sheet we gave out during Google I/O. You can download it here. We want to thank our partners and the App Engine developer community for a fantastic Google I/O 2009! It was great meeting those of you who were there. We look forward to the next year!

Posted by Amanda Surya, App Engine Team

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Last quarter, of the 4.3 million phones sold by BlackBerry, 3.2 million were powered by the older BlackBerry 7 OS. That was a shock considering the lengths to which BlackBerry tried to promote its new BlackBerry 10 powered phones. BlackBerry has inked a five year deal with contract manufacturer Foxconn for the latter to design, produce and handle warehousing of low-end BlackBerry models for emerging markets. When it was rumored that the first handset to be released under this deal, the BlackBerry Jakarta, would not have a physical QWERTY and would be powered by BlackBerry 10, it seemed that BlackBerry was about to pull the plug on BlackBerry 7 OS.

But there is some good news today for those who favor the older BlackBerry 7 OS. Sunil Lalwani, the Managing Director of BlackBerry India, now says that BlackBerry 7 OS will be supported until December 2015. That means that the platform that contributed the lions share of BlackBerry sales last quarter will still be around for nearly two years.

"The inherent new features of BB10 had to be clearly articulated to end-users, which wasn’t done well, leading to issues like inventory build-up of the Z10, but after cutting the price, sales have picked up again."-Sunil Lalwani, Managing Director, BlackBerry India

BlackBerry had to take a charge on an embarrassing amount of BlackBerry Z10 units as $960 million was written off in the second quarter. A further write down of $2.7 billion for unsold BlackBerry 10 units was taken in the third quarter. Lalwani said that BlackBerry did a poor job of showing potential buyers all of the features of BlackBerry 10, which led to the inventory write-offs. He does point out that since cutting the price of the Z10, sales have perked up.

After December 2015, the Managing Director says that BlackBerry will stop selling the older BlackBerry 7 OS powered models, and will offer deals to get owners of those BlackBerry models to exchange them for a BlackBerry 10 model. So if you love that QWERTY keyboard on the BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930, you have a couple of years left to pick one up. And no, Lalwani says that there is no sequel to the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet in the works.

"It’s been a difficult one year, but you only emerge stronger and learn what is your core strength based on which customer segments are still loyal to you. It’s not that we are not profitable anymore, but have taken several write-offs resulting in a hit on our books in the last one year. This was due to several reasons.

When we launched BB 10, it was a new platform built ground up to upgrade a decade old BB platform. The inherent new features of BB10 had to be clearly articulated to end-users, which wasn’t done well, leading to issues like inventory build-up of the Z10 but after cutting the price, sales have picked up again. In the last quarter, 60% of our revenue came from services and software – they generate higher margins. This is why, this year and beyond, services and software will be predominant focus for BlackBerry, and devices will be a pull through. We believe this strategy will be key to our turnaround and profitability in 2014, and we are extremely bullish about the future of BlackBerry."-Sunil Lalwani, Managing Director, BlackBerry India PhoneArena

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A German court ruled Friday that Google must block photos of a sadomasochistic orgy involving former Formula One boss Max Mosley.

The court said the six images taken from a video of the orgy that was filmed by Britains now defunct News of the World tabloid seriously breached Mosleys privacy.

Google must prevent the pictures being shown on its German-based google.de site, including via links on its search engine, the court in the northern city of Hamburg ruled.

"In the courts view the pictures offered seriously violate the plaintiffs privacy," said judge Simone Kaefer.

The ruling is the latest in a string of legal battles waged by 73-year-old Mosley related to the publication of the video and a 2008 article published by the Rupert Murdoch-owned British newspaper alleging it was a Nazi-themed orgy.

Mosley successfully took the publisher of the newspaper to court over the Nazi claim, winning £60,000 (73,000 euros, $99,500) in damages when the judge ruled there was no Nazi element.

In November a French court also ordered Google to prevent its search engine from providing links to images of the orgy, prompting the US company to immediately announce it would appeal.

Google argued in the French case that the courts decision raised fears of costly and heavy-handed automated censorship of the Internet.

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The bad news from Nokias camp just keep on coming in. First the Finns announced they are letting Vertu go, and now they have issued a press release stating the company will be sharpening its strategy by adding 10,000 lay-offs.



The staff reduction is due to several factory closings in Canada, Germany and Finland, and is planned to happen before the end of next year. Furthermore, three key executives will also be waving a last goodbye to Nokia.

Those are the chief marketing officer Jerry Devard, the executive VP of mobile phones Mary McDowell as well as the executive VP of markets Niklas Savander. All of them will leave Nokia come June 30. Their places will be filled in by Timo Toikanen, executive VP of mobile phones and Chris Weber, executive VP of marketing and sales, as well as senior VP of communications Susan Sheehan on July 1.

Also, Nokia emphasizes its ongoing push of Series 40 and Series 30 devices to developing markets in its goal to reach the next billion internet users.

Source | Via

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