PreviousIngres, Red Hat team on developer stack
News The open-source developer stack combines the Ingres database with JBoss packages from Red Hat and is meant to measure up to proprietary tools from IBM, Oracle and others [29 May 2009]
Google tests out customisation for Apps
News The company is recruiting testers for a beta of a scripting feature that lets businesses customise and automate actions in its online applications [28 May 2009]
Microsoft to release .NET Micro Framework code
News The technology, aimed at portable devices such as wristwatches, will get a new business model following a round of layoffs that affected its developer team [11 May 2009]
EC wants software makers held liable for code
News The European Commission is proposing that software makers give guarantees about the security and efficiency of their code [08 May 2009]
Intel plans for parallel-programming universe
Q&A Intel's James Reinders outlines the chipmaker's strategy for convincing more developers to switch to parallel programming [30 Apr 2009]
What developers want from the cloud
Analysis Software developers explain why they want a standards-based cloud, and platforms to provide tools that will allow them to deploy apps to the cloud quickly [23 Apr 2009]
Google offers coders early Android 1.5 SDK
News The search giant's new Cupcake software developer kit lets coders take advantage of features including video support, soft keyboards and an updated browser [15 Apr 2009]
Java makes Google App Engine more mainstream
Analysis As cloud computing gathers steam, Google gives programmers what they have been asking for by gracing its App Engine with support for Java programs [09 Apr 2009]
Google adding Java support to App Engine
News The search giant's App Engine is getting an 'early preview' of Java language support, a move that could significantly broaden Google's cloud-computing service [08 Apr 2009]
Adobe announces Flash Catalyst 
Video At the Web 2.0 Expo, Adobe's Kevin Lynch demos Flash Catalyst, a web-development program that allows developers to import pictures and make each shape into a web element [06 Apr 2009]
Microsoft's Silverlight 3 goes into beta
News The company's Flash rival now supports out-of-browser, rich internet applications and high-definition, 3D graphics [19 Mar 2009]
Sun steps into the cloud-computing fray
News The company has launched its own cloud platform and services, in a move designed to challenge market leaders such as Amazon [18 Mar 2009]
Developers 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]
