On the eve of its annual JavaOne Conference, Sun Microsystems unveiled a new version of the OpenSolaris operating system.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/02/2009
Microsoft cancelled its standalone Office Developer Conference for this year and instead will fold the content into its SharePoint Conference 2009 event, which is scheduled for the fall.
This year's JavaOne represents a changing of the guard for Sun Microsystems, longtime conference sponsor and steward of the Java platform, which is set to be acquired by Oracle.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/01/2009
Adobe Systems today is providing developers with the first public look at its next-generation tooling for creating rich Internet applications (RIAs) with the release of two key betas and updates to its framework.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/01/2009
ALM supplier Borland last week launched a new requirements management package that promises to reduce the number of late and costly changes to software development projects.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/01/2009
Microsoft executive Tami Reller fielded questions about the company's Windows business segment on Thursday in New York City.
Microsoft issued a security advisory on Friday describing a newly disclosed bug in Microsoft DirectShow that could enable remote code execution attacks.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/29/2009
Now that there's some movement toward a U.S. cybersecurity policy, it's time to roll up the sleeves and get to work, and that task won't be easy, software security experts suggested on Friday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/29/2009
On Wednesday, Microsoft released the latest Visual Studio (VS) extension preview for building apps that run on its Windows Azure cloud computing operating system and services platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/29/2009
Microsoft this week released a new community technology preview (CTP) of its modeling environment code-named "Oslo."
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/29/2009
Google this week took developers off guard by revealing Google Wave, a real-time shared communications stream that can include text, photos, videos and maps to which all participants have access.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/29/2009
Microsoft announced "Bing" on Thursday, the company's newest search engine technology and brand campaign.
Microsoft published Service Pack 2 (SP2) on Monday for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
A private cloud could offer almost all the benefits of a public cloud, but without the attendant security and privacy headaches, said Jim Whitehurst, president and chief executive officer of enterprise open source software vendor Red Hat.
- By Joab Jackson
- 05/27/2009
Attunity Ltd. today released software that allows developers to apply change data capture (CDC) between Microsoft's SQL Server and Oracle databases.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/27/2009
Palm has said it will support a grassroots effort to assemble independent developers looking to build their own apps for the Pre, the device manufacturer's next-generation smartphone built on a new Web-based platform called webOS.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/26/2009
Microsoft recently received a U.S. patent on technology that can restrict software and hardware use on a computer
- By Herb Torrens
- 05/26/2009
AirTight, a provider of Wi-Fi security services, recently scanned 3,632 access points (APs) and nearly 550 clients in seven different financial centers and found that half of these WAPs were either open (unprotected) or used WEP encryption.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/26/2009
Teams developing applications using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 (VSTS 2008) can now better implement Microsoft's security development lifecycle (SDL) process using a new template addition.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/23/2009
Microsoft on Friday announced that there's a problem for those who applied Service Pack 2 (SP2) to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) -- namely, it's timed to expire in 180 days.