News

• Intel opens software development center in Romania

  By Agam Shah | 09 November, 2010 07:13

  Intel on Monday opened a research and development center in Bucharest that will focus on software development.

• New Microsoft Partner Network program springs into action

  By Julia Talevski | 02 November, 2010 17:43

  Software giant, Microsoft, has revamped its Partner Network program, which comes into effect this month.

• A 'fat-free' programming framework for the cloud

  By Chris Kanaracus | 23 June, 2010 07:18

  Researchers in the U.K. are developing a lean-and-mean programming framework called Mirage that is designed specifically to support applications running on cloud infrastructure platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine.

• 'Many thousands' of pre-release Windows Phone 7 handsets prepped for developers

  By John Cox | 18 June, 2010 07:50

  Microsoft is confirming that "many thousands" of pre-release Windows Phone 7 handsets will be given to selected developers starting in July, but confusion over how that will be done continues.

• OpenCL 1.1 ratified by The Khronos Group

  By Agam Shah | 15 June, 2010 04:09

  The Khronos Group has ratified OpenCL 1.1, a programming standard for parallel execution of tasks across multicore processors, the standards-setting organization said on Monday.

• MasterCard to cater to developers with APIs, portal

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 26 May, 2010 05:48

  MasterCard is launching a program for external developers interested in tapping into some of the credit card giant's internal payment and data services to create applications.

• Operator mobile app push sets timeline

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 06 May, 2010 00:50

  The first applications based on the work done by the Wholesale Applications Community will arrive in February next year, but meanwhile developers can get to work in September, the organization said Wednesday.

• Twitter courts developers with new tools

  By James Niccolai | 15 April, 2010 07:31

  Twitter is promising new tools for developers to help them make better use of the 55 million tweets being pumped out every day by people who use its service.

• Microsoft exec: The world runs on software

  By Paul Krill | 13 April, 2010 06:55

  Declaring that software runs the world and developers are the engine behind software, a high-level Microsoft official Monday unleashed the company's latest software development platform, Visual Studio 2010 and the accompanying .Net Framework 4.

• Adobe evangelist tells Apple: 'Go screw yourself'

  By Joab Jackson | 12 April, 2010 06:47

  Responding to a change in the licensing terms for developers building applications for version 4.0 of the iPhone, a technology evangelist for Adobe Systems has told Apple to go perform an anatomically impossible act.

• Myriad tool converts Java apps for Android phones

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 23 March, 2010 05:58

  Mobile software company Myriad Group announced J2Android, which will make it possible for Java-based mobile applications to run on Android-based phones, the company said on Monday.

• IBM adding development and test offering to public cloud

  By Chris Kanaracus | 17 March, 2010 06:41

  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.

• IBM looks to pair security technologies for software development

  By Paul Krill | 08 March, 2010 23:09

  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.

• Source code management a weak spot in Aurora attacks

  By Robert McMillan | 05 March, 2010 05:56

  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.

• Google Go captures developers' imaginations

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 01 March, 2010 07:50

  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.