Appeals court denies Google bid to keep email out of Oracle trial
Feb 7, 2012 Developement
Google has failed in its latest attempt to keep a potentially damaging email out of the lawsuit Oracle filed against it over alleged Java intellectual-property violations in the Android mobile OS.
Microsoft drops Start button from Windows 8, reports say
Feb 7, 2012 Developement
Microsoft will scratch the 17-year-old Start button from Windows 8, according to reports based on a purported leak of the latest beta build.
RIM offers free PlayBook to attract Android developers
Feb 4, 2012 Developement
Research in Motion is trying to woo developers by giving a free BlackBerry Playbook tablet to coders who port their Android application for its BlackBerry Tablet OS.
HP extends asset mapping into Amazon, VMware clouds
Feb 1, 2012 Developement
Hewlett-Packard has updated its Discovery and Dependency Mapping Advanced (DDMA) software package so it will allow administrators to map their IT assets in the cloud.
IBM buys Worklight for mobile software platform
Feb 1, 2012 Developement
IBM on Tuesday announced plans to buy Worklight, a move that will give it a range of cross-platform mobile application development technologies. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the first quarter, were not disclosed.
Firefox 10 relieves add-on updating pain
Feb 1, 2012 Developement
Mozilla today patched eight vulnerabilities in Firefox as it shipped the latest iteration in its rapid release schedule.
Mozilla OKs Firefox 10 launch this week
Jan 31, 2012 Developement
Mozilla developers have given the green light to ship Firefox 10 on Tuesday.
Even the best patching programs probably miss this
Jan 31, 2012 Developement
Kenneth Van Wyk warns that vulnerabilities in programming frameworks are slipping through the cracks. (Insider; registration required)
What JavaScript’s inventor really thinks about Google Dart
Jan 27, 2012 Developement
Brendan Eich says that Google's language is not likely to get browser support and that JavaScript itself probably would not be extended to support native code
John Deere plows into agile
Jan 27, 2012 Developement
John Deere & Co., has moved about 800 software developers into an agile development process, and did so in just over a year.