What's New

• Facebook To Open App Store

  Facebook has announced its own App Center, a platform for selling its apps and acting as a conduit for other mobile apps. 05/16/2012

• Stash: Behind-the-Firewall Git Source Management

  Atlassian recently added another member to its developer tool family: a behind-the-firewall Git repository management solution designed for enterprise teams, called Stash. 05/15/2012

• OpenShift PaaS Roadmap for Enterprises Outlined by Red Hat

  Red Hat said it plans to extend its platform as a service (PaaS) OpenShift operating environment to enterprises building private and hybrid clouds, according to an announcement made on Wednesday. 05/11/2012

• XobotOS Replaces Java With C#

  A new project from Xamarin has replaced the Java code underpinning the Android OS with C# code. 05/11/2012

• Amazon's Cloud Services Adds Support for ASP.NET, SQL Developers

  Amazon Web Services launched Amazon Relational Database Services on Monday for Microsoft SQL Server and ASP.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk. 05/09/2012

• Apache Releases TomEE 1.0 Java EE Web Profile Certified Stack

  The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has finally released TomEE, the Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) of its Tomcat Web server, as a Java EE 6 Web Profile certified stack. 05/09/2012

• Apple Updates Java Runtime for the Last Time

  Apple has announced a preview of what will likely be the last two Java runtime updates it will ever provide for its operating systems. 05/08/2012

• Oracle vs. Google: 5 Top Analysts Weigh In on API Implications for Devs and Startups

  "If APIs are copyrightable in the U.S., but not the EU, then the implications are substantial...startups will come to Europe."  05/08/2012

• Web Sites Open to Attack From PHP Scripting Holes

  Two separate flaws in the PHP scripting language found in a large majority of Web sites have been seen being exploited in the wild by attackers. 05/07/2012

• Windows Azure Devs Get Telephony and Text Messaging APIs

  On Wednesday Microsoft announced that it has signed a deal with Twilio that will give developers the ability to have voice and SMS-enabled applications run on the Windows Azure cloud service. 05/04/2012

• CollabNet Launches ALM Platform CloudForge

  CollabNet, a distributor of the Subversion open-source application lifecycle management (ALM) platform, is bringing its source version control (SVC) technology to the cloud. 05/02/2012

• RIM Announces BlackBerry 10, Woos Devs with $10K Per App Pledge

  Research in Motion (RIM) Tuesday announced the BlackBerry 10, a new smartphone clearly aimed at regaining the market share it's been hemorrhaging over the last few years to market leaders iPhone and Android. 05/01/2012

• Android Continues To Hold Half the U.S. Smartphone Market

  Android continues to be the leading mobile OS with more than half of the U.S. smartphone market, according to the latest data from metrics firm comScore. 05/01/2012

• New Open Source Mobile/Touch Project Comes to the Java Community

  Potix Corporation, the creator and chief commercial supporter of the open source ZK framework, recently unveiled a new community project: ZK Touch. 04/25/2012

• Titanium Cross-Mobile Dev Platform Updated for Cloud

  Appcelerator, a Mountain View, Calif.-based mobile platform company, has just released a new version of its open source Titanium application development platform. 04/25/2012

• Java PaaS CloudBees Donates 5 Plugins to Jenkins

  Java Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider CloudBees continues its support of the open-source, Java-based Jenkins continuous integration (CI) tool by contributing five plugins to the community. 04/24/2012

• HP's Converged Cloud Provides Architected Path

  Hewlett-Packard recently announced its Converged Cloud strategy the company said aims to combines private, managed and public clouds with traditional IT. 04/20/2012

• Rackspace Moves its Cloud Servers to OpenStack

  Rackspace, the first OpenStack co-sponsor and co-contributor along with NASA, announced its cloud compute service is now based on the OpenStack platform. 04/20/2012

• Reducing Agile Project Costs With Amortization

  The Agile Architect explains how to reduce the cost of large efforts while immediately realizing the benefits. His secret: amortize! 04/17/2012

• Flexera Launches Virtual Desktop Migration Planning Tool

  Flexera Software this week released a new migration planning tool, AdminStudio Virtual Desktop Assessment. 04/17/2012

• IBM Announces New Line of Private Cloud Products

  IBM last week announced it will deliver cloud-focused hardware and software for enterprises, hosting facilities and cloud service providers. 04/16/2012

• Window 8 Developer Test Solution for iPads Released by Splashtop

  Splashtop Inc. released last week Win8 Metro Testbed" connection solution. 04/13/2012