The new service follows a private cloud version released last year
IBM will soon offer software development and testing services through its public cloud, adding to a private cloud option launched in June 2009, the company said Tuesday.
Former Watchfire and Ounce Labs capabilities would be partnered in an enterprise-level product to be released later this year
Honing in on the need for more security in application development, IBM Rational is planning an enterprise-level product that features two separately acquired technologies for security testing and code scanning.
McAfee says that hackers were after the source code management systems
Companies should take extra steps to secure their source code from the type of targeted attacks that hit Google, Adobe, Intel and others over the past few months.
The programming language aims to combine the speed of Python with the robustness of C++
Less than four months after its unveiling at an early, experimental stage, Google Go looks promising to developers who say it offers significant improvements over other programming languages.
Cloud, agile development, the Web, and others make Microsoft's to-do list
Microsoft's to-do list in the software development space includes continued or new investments in multiple areas, including cloud computing, the Web, parallel computing, devices, and agile and distributed development, a company executive said in a blog entry on Tuesday.
Lego will run a massively multiplayer online game fashioned in the form of a virtual LegoLand
Toy construction set company Lego Group plans to launch an MMOG (massively multiplayer online game) in the second half of this year, to be called Lego Universe, said Mark Hansen, director of business development and LEGO lead for the project.
A quick slideshow tour of Google Android apps that make a geek's life easier
These eight apps allow you to open a shell, run a shell script, tap the Linux command line, or otherwise put your Android-based smartphone to productive use. Most are available in free editions, and none will set you back more than a few dollars.
A new Forrester report finds widespread use of the iterative software development processes
Agile software development processes, in which software is built in short iterations rather than mapped out fully in advance, have joined the mainstream of development approaches, according to a Forrester Research report released this week.
New version of the language features a few old Java class tricks
The new version of the Groovy programming language aims to make life easier for programmers who work with Java and SQL, the language's developers note.
Executive: But developers won't be forced into a single programming method
SAP is hoping to build a platform of third-party SaaS (software-as-a-service) applications to complement its own emerging wave of offerings.
The company will release a new set of APIs
In an aggressive move, MySpace will open its users' public activity stream data to external developers, so that third-party applications and Web sites are able to display these status updates and action notifications.
A date for the 2010 conference, called 'Chirp,' has not been announced
Twitter announced the organization of its first official developers conference, Chirp, in San Francisco.
Sun's implementation of the specification is expected in two weeks
Java Platform Enterprise Edition (EE) 6, featuring a capability for function-based profiles, has been approved by the official Java standards body, with an implementation of the specification to follow from Sun Microsystems in about two weeks.
The Android app, SweetDreams, earned its developers US$250,000
Google named the winners of its second contest aimed at encouraging software developers to make applications for the Android mobile operating system.
Salesforce.com says more than 135,000 custom applications have been built with the platform
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff on Thursday attempted to cement an image of the vendor as a full-blown application development platform provider, not merely a purveyor of SaaS (software-as-a-service) applications.
