A large malware ring might have infected more than 5 million Android users with fraudulent apps, according to Symantec.
Cloud9, makers of a Web-based integrated development environment (IDE) for Javascript and HTML 5 applications, was in the spotlight at this week's Node Summit because of its support of Microsoft's Azure cloud.
The open-source Node.js server-side JavaScript development environment was the spotlight of Microsoft's keynote presentation.
Microsoft announced the official release date of SQL Server 2012 this week.
Open-source business intelligence vendor Jaspersoft recently made its popular Java reporting engine, JasperReports Server, available in the products of two fierce cloud competitors.
ForgeRock has released version 2.0 of its OpenIDM identity management offering.
For Java developers working on the nascent Jelastic Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), it now requires just a mouse click to activate new automated high availability (HA) features for their applications, the company announced.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Wednesday launched a new database service that will let customers modify and store huge amounts of unstructured content while providing rapid access to data.
According to Visual Studio Magazine's 2012 .NET Developer Salary Survey, database-related jobs provide good job security and competitive salaries.
Oracle this week officially released the Oracle Big Data Appliance, its new "engineered system" that tightly bundles servers and software into a unified system.
The Java Community Process (JCP) has approved a Java Specification Request (JSR) submitted by Oracle to create a Java API to process JavaScript Object Notation, the lightweight data-interchange format better known as JSON.
IBM announced Wednesday it has agreed to buy Green Hat, a provider of tools that lets application developers use cloud resources to test their software, for an undisclosed amount.
Oracle on Thursday announced the availability of the NetBeans 7.1 IDE, the first upgrade of the open source development environment since the 7.0 release in April.
A report discussing a planned Microsoft move to allow customers to host Linux servers on its Windows Azure cloud service was released by All About Microsoft's Mary Jo Foley today.
Oracle has released software updates for Java Standard Edition 6 and 7.
Java runtime maker Azul Systems this week unveiled a new open source tool designed to measure the response-time fluctuations known as "hiccups" associated with an application's underlying Java runtime (RT) platform.
CollabNet, the Brisbane, Calif.-based provider of distributed software development solutions, recently released a new integration framework for its TeamForge Agile ALM platform.
Potix Corporation this week released ZK Pivottable 1.0, which it's billing as one of the "first true pivot tables" that can be embedded in Java Web applications.
Silverlight 5, Microsoft's .NET development tool, was released as a final product on Friday by Microsoft.
Tasktop Technologies has released Sync 2.0, the first major upgrade of its tool for synchronizing existing application lifecycle management (ALM) servers from multiple vendors and open source projects.