After a short while of private testing with developers, Palm‘s latest killer development platform, Ares, is now opened for public beta. This development platform is built entirely on web, developers do not need to download anything.  Just goto http://ares.palm.com to start coding, visually.  The platform is also made easy for developer collaboration and app submission to Palm’s App Catalog. Ares includes Complete integrated development environment Drag-and-drop interface builder Code editor Visual debugger Log viewer Source [...]

Novell, the owner of mono project, has announced MonoTouch 1.0, a commercial SDK kit that allows developers to build iPhone apps using Microsoft’s .Net Framework.  At the moment, developers who wish to develop applications for iPhone has to use the Apple-designated C or Objective-C languages. The MonoTouch SDK uses Novell’s Mono runtime, allowing developers to utilize code and libraries written for .Net and programming languages like C#. “What’s important here is that C# and .Net [...]