KDE 4.1 released
News The latest version is intended to answer some of the most serious criticisms of the KDE 4.0 graphical user environment [30 Jul 2008]
Google open sources 'Protocol Buffers'
News The company has open sourced a data description language that it claims is more efficient that XML [10 Jul 2008]
Adobe tools put desktop apps in the browser
News The company will reportedly open source a set of tools allowing existing desktop and server software written in the C programming language to run in browsers [10 Jul 2008]
Ten key considerations for application developers
Help/HowTo When writing code, keeping certain points in mind can help developers improve the quality of end products and keep users happy [09 Jul 2008]
Ubuntu creator wants to squash 'upstream' bugs
News Mark Shuttleworth has called for Ubuntu developers to accept responsibility for all flaws in the OS's code, including those in 'upstream' source code [30 Jun 2008]
Microsoft unveils optimised sat-nav OS
News Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 is one of Redmond's first embedded operating systems to be optimised for a specific category of device [16 Jun 2008]
Boldly going to IBM Rational 2008 
Photo Attendees at this year's IBM Rational Software Development Conference 2008 included around 3,500 software developers and one former Star Trek actor [11 Jun 2008]
Apple answers call for iPhone applications
News During his keynote at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, Steve Jobs officially announced the upcoming iPhone App Store [10 Jun 2008]
Programmers to get a cut of AOL's revenue
News AIM 6.8 includes interfaces programmers can use to build instant-messaging plug-ins, sharing in related ad revenue [10 Jun 2008]
IBM alphaWorks: From software theory to fact
Q&A Senior engineering manager at IBM's software development community Laura Bennett discusses how the group helps turn research concepts from the labs into practical products [05 Jun 2008]
Google Gadgets for Linux appears
News Previously only available for Windows and Mac platforms, Google Gadgets can now be used with, and developed for, Linux platforms [04 Jun 2008]
IBM raises the tempo with Jazz
News The company has announced a group of new products for its Eclipse-based team collaboration platform Jazz, which it says will help improve processes such as data gathering [03 Jun 2008]
KDE starts testing version 4.1
News The new release's aim is to make KDE 4.1 a full replacement for KDE 3 — something the project admitted is not yet the case with version 4.0 [30 May 2008]
Building Microsoft code inside the tornado
Q&A Vice president S 'Soma' Somasegar shares his views on how interoperability and open source will help Microsoft weather the ever-changing climate of software code development [22 May 2008]
Developers snub Vista in favour of XP
News A survey has found a large majority of developers writing applications for Windows are ignoring Vista in favour of XP or older versions of the Microsoft operating system [19 May 2008]
Silverlight open-source implementation released
News The Mono project this week made the first public release of Moonlight, an open-source implementation of the Silverlight rich media browser tech [16 May 2008]
Sun demos Java app for next-generation phones 
Video Sun engineers explain how the Nvidia APX2500 chip allows developers to write Java apps on a desktop and run them directly to mobile phones [14 May 2008]
Google opens geographic search interface
News The search giant has added a new element to its search interface that will let others' websites use geographically linked information [14 May 2008]
Sun previews JavaFX-powered game 
Video Sun CTO Robert Brewin talks to members of the JavaFX team about how they created the animation inside the game Moontank using the JavaFX environment [08 May 2008]
Sun execs show off JavaFX widgets 
Video At JavaOne, Danny Coward and Ken Russell of Sun's Java SE team show how JavaFX-powered applets can be deployed within a web browser or dragged over to the desktop [08 May 2008]



