PreviousDevelopers rush to exploit social-app demand
News Developers are flocking to take advantage of the growing social-networking trend, with apps for platforms of web giants such as Facebook enjoying highest demand [10 Mar 2009]
Sun disputes claims OpenOffice is a fading project
News OpenOffice.org is still thriving under the support of a vibrant developer community and plans for further performance improvements, says its primary sponsor and owner [06 Mar 2009]
EC ends full-time antitrust monitoring of Microsoft
News The European Commission is scaling back its checks on whether the software maker is complying with a 2004 ruling to share interoperability information [04 Mar 2009]
Google announces pricing for App Engine use
News The cloud-computing foundation is growing more mature, as those wanting to use it to house web applications can pay to get more capacity [25 Feb 2009]
SpinVox opens up its API for new apps
News The speech-to-text conversion company hopes its open application programming interface will allow developers to create new, as-yet-unthought-of applications for the technology [17 Feb 2009]
Mozilla shifts code development to the cloud
News Mozilla's Developer Tools Lab has released its first prototype — a web-based, collaborative code-editing framework called Bespin [16 Feb 2009]
Images: Google Earth 5.0 travels the oceans 
Photo The updated version of Google's mapping service lets users go underwater to the sea floor, as well as back in time through older aerial and satellite images. [03 Feb 2009]
Open-source developers reach for the cloud
News Forty percent of open-source developers are planning to use cloud services, far more than among the general developer population, according to a new survey [21 Jan 2009]
Cobol moves into Amazon's cloud
News Micro Focus is extending its Enterprise Cloud Services to support Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud [15 Jan 2009]
Developers expect SaaS boom
News More than half of developers worldwide expect to work on internet-hosted apps during 2009, according to a new survey [13 Jan 2009]
Adobe pushes AIR for Linux out of beta
News The company has brought its integrated runtime environment for Linux up to speed with the versions available for Windows and Mac users [18 Dec 2008]
Will 2008 prove the year the web grew up?
Comment After the turbulence of the browser wars and the dot-com crash, the emergence this year of open development standards hints at a new-found maturity, argues Bruce Lawson [09 Dec 2008]
Microsoft launches open-source blogging platform
News Oxite is aimed at developers and not designed to compete with the likes of WordPress or Movable Type, according to the software maker [09 Dec 2008]
Major Python update makes break with past
News Python 3.0 is a major change from the Python 2 series, and the first release that is intentionally backwards-incompatible [04 Dec 2008]
Sun seeks new coders, revenue via JavaFX
Analysis With the launch of JavaFX 1.0, Sun is trying to reclaim Java's strength as a foundation for rich internet applications. But it's no longer the incumbent [04 Dec 2008]
Sun warns of bugs as it releases MySQL 5.1
News MySQL's founder has released version 5.1 of the open-source database software, but simultaneously warned of a number of bugs present in the new features that still need to be fixed [01 Dec 2008]
Microsoft details plans for Visual Studio and .NET
Q&A Visual Studio chiefs Jason Zander and Matt Carter set out the company's manifesto for data democracy [21 Nov 2008]
Sun updates NetBeans with PHP support
News Version 6.5 of the open-source NetBeans IDE has support for the PHP scripting language and a preview of Python support [20 Nov 2008]
OpenSocial, Facebook, Microsoft vie for developers
Analysis OpenSocial's growth as a development platform for social-networking apps means it has to work out where it stands with rivals and programmers [18 Nov 2008]
Adobe to bring full Flash to smartphones
News Powerful new mobile phones will get full-on Flash Player 10, not just the lightweight version, although Flash on the iPhone remains on the wish list [18 Nov 2008]
