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Article | 18/11/2010 Oracle submits specs for Java 7 and 8

An Oracle official detailed on Tuesday the submissions of upcoming Java releases to the formal specification process, including versions 7 and 8 of Ja...

Article | 17/11/2010 RIM: Smartphone app builders must know audience

Given the complexities of different smartphone platforms, software builders embarking on an enterprise application project for these systems must know...

Article | 16/11/2010 Sencha offers HTML5 framework for mobile apps

Sencha began offering on Monday Sencha Touch, an HTML5-based mobile application development framework for touch-based devices. The company also detail...

Article | 12/11/2010 Cloudstock conference set for cloud app developers

Cloudstock, a technical conference dubbed "The Woodstock for Cloud Developers," is being held next month with backing from cloud computing players inc...

Article | 10/11/2010 Microsoft, Adobe proclaim their love for HTML5

Representatives of Microsoft and Adobe on Tuesday both espoused their companies' love for HTML5 technology at the HTML5 Live conference held within a ...

Article | 10/11/2010 Apple's mobile developer momentum open to challenge

While Apple has major momentum in the mobile application developer space, there is room for other companies to steal Apple's thunder, according to an ...

Article | 8/11/2010 Oracle moving to merge JRockit, HotSpot JVMs

Oracle is moving forward with plans to merge its two Java virtual machines (JVMs) and to provide a single microkernel for its open source GlassFish an...

Article | 6/11/2010 Microsoft's Silverlight damage control intensifies

More Microsoft executives are chiming in this week about the company's commitment to the Silverlight rich Internet application platform, after comment...

Article | 6/11/2010 Prominent software designer promotes '21st century' techniques

DSLs (Domain Specific languages), continuous integration, and event sourcing were stressed as key aids for software builders Friday by a dignitary in ...

Article | 5/11/2010 Microsoft: We're more enterprise-ready than Google Apps

Microsoft is bolstering its cloud presence with its Office 365 cloud application suite and believes it has more to offer enterprises than Google has w...

Article | 4/11/2010 Drupal 7 nears release candidate stage

Drupal 7, the next major version of the popular open source content management system, could reach a release candidate stage as early as this week, th...

Article | 3/11/2010 Oracle lays out its cloud vision

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison famously once asked, "What the hell is cloud computing?" Nonetheless, Oracle has jumped onto the cloud bandwagon, with compan...

Article | 3/11/2010 Cloud computing underwhelms PHP developers

While technology vendors continue to pound home the message of cloud computing, PHP developers Tuesday viewed the concept as overhyped and were not in...

Article | 3/11/2010 Zend looks to optimize PHP for mobile devices and the cloud

PHP development tools maker Zend Technologies will make mobile access to applications a critical part of its product strategy on Tuesday, along with e...

Article | 30/10/2010 Microsoft hails async programming for Visual Basic, C#

Microsoft is fitting its Visual Basic and C# languages with an asynchronous programming model to help developers accommodate the growing complexity in...