techpcelerator releases Titanium cross-platform techp dev technology (InfoWorld)
San Francisco – Appcelerator will release on Monday version 1.0 of Titanium, its cross-platform system for building native mobile and desktop applications. Titanium leverages Web development technologies such as JavaScript , PHP, and Ruby. For mobile application builders, this means they do not need to learn the Objective-C language for iPhone or Google’s Java language for Android systems. A translator enables applications to run natively on different platforms. [ See InfoWorld 's 2009 report on how smartphone apps development can present developers with a Tower of Babel-like situation . ] “Our value proposition is that we allow Web developers to build native mobile and desktop applications using the skills and technologies that they have today,” said Scott Schwarzhoff, vice president of marketing for Appcelerator. On the desktop, development is supported for PCs, Macintosh , and Linux . Mobile platforms backed include Apple iPhone and Google Android , with Research in Motion Blackberry support planned for later this year. Developers can build applications that access native device capabilities, such as database and camera functions. Titanium differs from other cross-platform development frameworks such as Rhomobile Rhodes because it offers native performance as well as native UI and access to device capabilities, Schwarzhoff said. Titanium provides a common code base but different experiences based on the device, such as offering a Windows UI for a Windows application or an iPhone UI for an iPhone program. Translators are used to enable native experiences. The 1.0 version of Titanium features improved performance. Release of the 1.0 version signifies the end of the beta period for Titanium. Applications can be built such as social networking and business and productivity systems. A Titanium user cited the benefit of not having to learn Objec tive-C. “A company like us that focuses primarily on Web development , we can start developing applications right away,” said Brendan Lim, director of mobile solutions for Intridea. ” Objective-C for iPhone, that’s a huge barrier for a lot o people.” Intridea used Titanium to develop an iPhone application, Grub.it , which posts restaurant reviews and finds eateries. Plans call for enabling it to work on Android as well. Appcelerator plans to offer a version of Titanum for Apple’s upcoming iPad device. This story, ” Appcelerator releases Titanium cross-platform app dev technology ,” was originally published at InfoWorld.com . Follow the latest developments in software development at InfoWorld.com.
India’s Central Bank Stops Some PayPal Services
NEW DELHI — Thousands of small companies here are facing a cash crunch after India’s top bank regulator suspended some PayPal services in the country. Many small information technology companies and freelance computer professionals rely on PayPal, the online money transfer company, to receive payments from overseas clients. PayPal allows them to bypass cumbersome and expensive international bank transactions. But the Reserve Bank of India said Wednesday that despite the online payment service’s ubiquity in India, it is not properly registered. “Providers of cross-border money transfer service need prior authorization from the Reserve Bank under the Payment and Settlement Systems Act,” a spokeswoman for the Reserve Bank of India, Alpana Killawalla, said in an e-mailed response to questions. “PayPal does not have our authorization.” The act, adopted in August 2008, regulates payment and settlement methods in India. Ms. Killawalla did not provide further details. PayPal recently explained the situation in India after receiving numerous complaints about payments that went through but were then reversed. The company said Feb. 6 on a blog post that “personal” payments, or those made from one individual to another, had been suspended to India, but Anuj Nayar, a spokesman for PayPal, said in an interview that the company was communicating directly with customers before that. People and companies in India can still receive “commercial” payments for goods and services, but they are unable to move money from PayPal into their bank, it said. It may take several months, the company said, to resolve issues over personal payments with Indian regulators, but it hoped that customers would be able to withdraw their funds to Indian banks within days. “We are working very closely with the regulators,” Mr. Nayar said. In a blog post, Mr. Nayar apologized “on behalf of PayPal for the inconvenience that this is causing our customers.” It took PayPal which is owned by eBay in San Jose, Calif., more than a week to notify customers after being flagged by Indian regulators. The Reserve Bank of India said it asked the company on Jan. 27 to immediately suspend PayPal payments to and from India as well as transfers to local banks in India. PayPal said it complied with the request the next day. Executives from both Indian and American information technology companies say they were caught off-guard by the announcement. “Like all the freelancing sites, we rely on PayPal,” said Alok Maheshwari, founder and chief executive of Harmony Infotech, a nine-employee Web development company in the south India state of Andhra Pradesh. “We used to get a check in our company name mailed to us instead, but we stopped because PayPal is very easy to use.” Harmony Infotech has been relying on PayPal since 2005, and now averages about $1,500 a month in PayPal transaction payments. On Feb. 2, Harmony Infotech got a payment via PayPal from Rent A Coder, a Tampa, Fla., company that connects computer engineers with jobs, and Mr. Maheshwari said he moved the payment to his company’s bank account in India. Two days later, the payment was reversed, leaving him with a negative PayPal balance. The payment was a “commercial” and not personal payment, he said. PayPal says that only personal payments should have been reversed, and that if a commercial payment was reversed, the payer should resend the money. Some PayPal users send commercial payments as personal payments to avoid the fees on commercial payments. In a notice on its Web site to the Indian companies it hires, Rent A Coder said “We have never received a coherent answer from PayPal as to why they blocked any of the payments.” To avoid the uncertainty, Rent A Coder suggested a switch to Payoneer, an alternate online payment site, which is “offering a special to Indian workers.” The Reserve Bank has sent PayPal a list of questions, focusing on whether or not personal payments to people in India qualify as remittances, or wire transfers of cash, PayPal said. The regulators told PayPal that they had revised remittance licensing rules. PayPal does not consider itself to be in the remittance business in India because accounts are online only. Recipients must transfer the money to a bank account to withdraw it. Payments to other countries are a growing business for PayPal. Cross-border payments account for about 25 percent of PayPal’s total $71 billion payment volume last year. PayPal does not have a domestic business in India — all payments are from other countries. PayPal does not break out payment volume for India, but in 2008, the last year for which PayPal made data available, it processed $4 billion in total payment volume in the Asia Pacific region, most of which was in Australia. PayPal’s India business is “relatively small, but fast-growing,” Mr. Nayar said. Heather Timmons reported from New Delhi and Claire Cain Miller from San Francisco.
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