Amazon opens Appstore doors to web apps

Web devs invited to cash in with JavaScript purchasing API

Amazon has begun accepting web apps and mobile-optimized websites for sale in its Amazon Appstore for Kindle and Android devices, allowing developers to market their HTML-based wares to mobile users in over 200 countries.…

Google lifts skirts, reveals Play All Access to UK market

Spotify for fandroids? Something like that, yeah

Without much fanfare, Google Play’s on-demand streaming service has launched in the UK. Google Play All Access is priced at £9.99 per month and offers mobile access … and only runs on web browsers and Android devices, for now.…

Google sniffs at MySQL fork MariaDB: Yum. Have an engineer

Keeping the DB alive outside Larry’s grasp? Sounds good to Choc Factory

Exclusive  Search giant Google has put its support behind an independent fork of MySQL, the famed open-source database that was gulped down by software giant Oracle when it acquired Sun Microsystems.…