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Dell's Boomi Adds Java Message Service to Integration Cloud

Dell just announced an update to its recently acquired Boomi software that will include Java Message Service (JMS) connectors for middleware products.

Java Interface for Geospatial Software Approved

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), an organization that develops and promotes standards for geospatial content and services, this week approved the 3.0 version of its GeoAPI Interface Standard.

Survey: Developer Interest in Android and WP7 Drops, iOS Holds Strong

Has some of the bloom come off the Android rose? That's what a new survey of developers may be showing.

NetBeans 7.0 Adds JDK 7, HTML 5 Support; Drops Ruby on Rails

Oracle today announced the availability of the 7.0 version of the NetBeans integrated development environment (IDE).

3 Billion Android Apps Downloaded, Pace Tracking To Bypass iPhone/iPad Apps

Android smartphones continue to explode in popularity. So it's no surprise that the main driver of smartphones -- the apps that run on them -- should be similarly skyrocketing in usage.

Java and Python Runtimes 'Closer to Parity' in Google App Engine Release

The recent release of Google's App Engine 1.4.3 brings its two supported runtimes -- Python and Java -- "even closer to parity," the company said.

New Java Integration Framework Launches

Open source integration and messaging company FuseSource this week unveiled a new Eclipse-based IDE for the Apache Camel integration framework.

'Mango' for Windows Phone, Silverlight 5 Beta and Kinect Windows SDK Unveiled at Day 2 of MIX

Microsoft Wednesday announced plans to release a major tools update next month for the upcoming "Mango" platform, slated for existing Windows Phones and future later this year.

VMware Launches Cloud Foundry as First 'Open' PaaS

VMware announced the launch of Cloud Foundry, which the company is touting as the as the first "open platform as a service" (PaaS), on Tuesday.

First Open Java API for OLAP Available

Open source business intelligence (BI) vendor Pentaho Corporation today released version 1.0 of olap4j, an open Java API for building OLAP applications.

IE 10 Preview, Entity Framework and MVC 3 Updates Unveiled at Microsoft's MIX '11

Microsoft kicked off the beginning of MIX11 in Las Vegas today with its keynote that included the announcement the Entity Framework 4.1 and ASP.NET MVC 3 Tooling Update release dates.

Novell Releases Mono for Android 1.0 Devices

Yesterday Novell released the production version of Mono for Google's mobile OS, a set of tools and plug-ins that allow .NET developers to write applications for Android-based devices.

Free iPhone/iPad App Testing Tool Helps Agile Development

Gorilla Logic this week announced a new version of its free, open source FoneMonkey testing tool for iOS applications.

Google Exerting More Control Over Android

Is Android becoming a victim of its own success?

Three Vendors Team Up To Launch OpenStack Demos

Dell, Equinix and Rackspace today launched a demo of the environment available for service providers and enterprise customers to test cloud-based apps running atop the OpenStack platform.

Majority of Dev Projects Run Behind Schedule, Survey Finds

According to an Evans Data Corp. Survey, a majority of programmers responded that 49 percent of scheduled projects tend to finish past its projected date.

Report: Smartphone Market To Grow 49 Percent in 2011

An IDC report released today projects that the worldwide smarpthone market will see a 49.2 percent growth and will ship an estimated 450 million units for 2011.

Mylyn-Based Tasktop 2.0 Brings Together ALM Tools

Agile application lifecycle management (ALM) tools vendor Tasktop Technologies this week announced a major release of Tasktop Enterprise, its commercial implementation of the Eclipse Mylyn task-focused interface.

Update for Windows Phone 7 Readies

According to an MSDN blog posting, Microsoft will be offering an update to its smartphone OS -- at a catch.

SCCVM 2012 Test Release To Get Server App-V for Windows Azure Beta

Microsoft's Server Application Virtualization tool for Windows Azure was included in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 beta 2, released earlier this week.