Ben Woods

Ben Woods

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With a psychology degree under his belt, Ben set off on a four-year sojourn as a professional online poker player, but as the draw of the gambling life began to wane his attentions turned to more wholesome employment.With several years' exp…erience covering everything in the world of telecoms and mobility, Ben's your man if it involves a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or any other piece of tech small enough to carry around with you. He's also keenly interested in broadband issues, and has spent more time than strictly necessary testing out a multitude of software packages.Hot tips (no tittering at the back) can be passed along to me at ben.woods@zdnet.com or you can follow me on Twitter @BenWoodsZD, if you can bear intermittent cake and cat tweets.

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Canonical to 'dogfood' Ubuntu smartphones before end of May

The team working on Ubuntu's Touch smartphone OS plans to start using it as an everyday phone before the end of the month.

May 10, 2013 by Ben Woods in Developer

Oracle extends Java SE6 support, yet again

Java SE6 users can continue to receive updates and patches for free until February 2013, at least.

December 4, 2012 by Ben Woods in Developer

RIM: HTML 5 is the bridge between BlackBerry 7 and 10

The BlackBerry maker believes HTML 5 could help persuade developers to keep making apps for both its platforms as it prepares for the introduction of its new BlackBerry 10 OS and devices.

October 4, 2012 by Ben Woods in Developer

BBC swaps Flash for Air on Android and mobile iPlayer

The BBC has started rolling out an Adobe Air version of its web player, designed to work across all platforms as it moves away from Adobe Flash Player for its Android endeavours.

September 19, 2012 by Ben Woods in Developer

Mozilla on HTML5: Here's what Zuckerberg really meant to say

There's more to the Facebook founder's view of HTML5 than seeing it as a 'mistake' in development focus, says Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich, who laid out to ZDNet his reasons why the tension between native apps versus web technology will eventually fade away.

September 12, 2012 by Ben Woods in Developer

Flash returns to Google Play store in UK - but not for long

Adobe backpedals on its decision to pull its Flash Player app from the official Android store, to accommodate the BBC's iPlayer app — but act now if you want to download it, as it will be gone again soon.

August 31, 2012 by Ben Woods in Developer

Amazon sets up Android app store in UK

The Amazon Appstore is now available to customers in five European countries, opening up 1-Click downloads for Android app buyers.

August 30, 2012 by Ben Woods in Developer

Visiting London for the Olympics? There's an iOS app for that

The summer Olympic Games will be taking place in London in just a few short days, filling the capital with crowds. Here's a list of free iPhone and iPad apps to help visitors get around, manage their data and have a good time

July 23, 2012 by Ben Woods in Developer

BBC to launch Barcelona download service for TV shows

The BBC is working on a service to let people to pay to download programmes from the broadcaster's archives, to own forever rather than with an iPlayer-like playback window

March 15, 2012 by Ben Woods in Developer

Mozilla sidesteps delay to deliver Firefox 11

Mozilla has released Firefox 11 on time, despite concerns that the launch could be delayed due to potential security vulnerabilities. It brings with it powerful new developer tools and an add-on sync option

March 14, 2012 by Ben Woods in Developer

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