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  • Article | 5/11/2012 Microsoft updates C++ compiler
    Microsoft is updating its C++ compiler for its Visual Studio 12 IDE (integrated development environment) so that Windows application developers can us...
  • Article | 2/11/2012 Windows 8 presses developers to update their skills
    Microsoft likes to talk about Windows 8 as being Windows "reimagined," and in many ways it is quite a departure from its predecessors. To allow the op...
  • Article | 30/10/2012 Microsoft CEO Ballmer touts Windows 8 momentum
    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off the company's annual Build developer conference emphasizing the momentum of the company's new Windows 8 and Win...
  • Article | 22/10/2012 Oracle brings cross platform Java dev to mobile devices
    Oracle is augmenting its Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) to allow developers to create mobile applications for Apple and Android device...
  • Article | 21/12/2011 Oracle demands January trial in Google-Android case
    Google and Oracle continue to differ over when their lawsuit over alleged Java intellectual property violations in the Android mobile OS should begin,...
  • Article | 10/12/2011 Facebook releases a PHP just-in-time compiler
    In its continuing endeavor to serve its 800 million users as quickly as possible, Facebook is once again revamping the way it handles its PHP-based We...
  • Article | 6/12/2011 PHP 5.4 emerges from the collapse of PHP 6.0
    With the pending release of PHP version 5.4, due early next year, the creators behind the popular Web scripting language are including the best parts ...
  • Article | 3/12/2011 EBay launches Web query language
    In the hopes of reducing the complexity of making data calls over the Web, eBay has launched a programming language, called ql.io, which bundles separ...
  • Article | 17/11/2011 Adobe donates Flex to Apache
    In a move that appears to be another step away from its Flash platform, Adobe has submitted the code for its Flash-based Flex framework to the Apache ...
  • Article | 17/11/2011 Obfuscated code contest returns
    The creators behind the long-running Internet contest to write bizarre and unnecessarily complex C programming code, called the International Obfuscat...
  • Article | 4/11/2011 Oracle, Google again fail to settle Android lawsuit
    Oracle and Google held another settlement conference on Wednesday in their ongoing lawsuit over alleged Java intellectual-property violations in the A...
  • Article | 3/11/2011 VMware out, Twitter in at Java oversight committee
    VMware is no longer a member of the Java Community Process SE/EE Executive Committee, but Twitter has joined, according to election results finalized ...
  • Article | 2/11/2011 HTML5 WebSocket to hasten Web app comms
    Thanks to its chattiness, the traditional communications protocol for shuttling data around the World Wide Web is not very efficient. Now an HTML5-rel...
  • Article | 11/10/2011 Google launches Dart as a JavaScript killer
    Google has launched a preview version of a new Web programming language, called Dart, which the company's engineers hope will address some of the shor...
  • Article | 23/09/2011 Facebook revamps profile with timeline concept
    Facebook has done an extreme makeover of its user profiles, redesigning the interface so that it's easy to surface not only recent updates but also ye...

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