According to a Microsoft Security Intelligence Report, released last month, the most common software exploit type in the first half of 2011 was associated with vulnerabilities in Oracle's Java Runtime Environment (JRE).
The fourth platform preview version of Internet Explorer 10 was released by Microsoft today.
Collabnet on Friday announced the availability of its ScrumWorks Pro Agile project management tool on its Codesion Cloud Services platform.
In an effort to lend its Node.js expertise to VMware's Cloud Foundry project, cloud software and services provider Joyent has signed on to VMware's Community Leads program.
Once again leading the smartphone OS race is Google's open source Android platform, which according to Gartner shipped on 60.5 million units worldwide in Q3 2011.
Yesterday Zend announced the general availability of Zend Studio 9.0.
According to a survey conducted by IDC and Appcelerator, interest in developing for Windows Phone 7 has increased.
In an announcement made this week by Adobe, the company will cut 750 workers and discontinue its browser-based Flash Player for mobile devices.
Java runtime maker Azul Systems released a new Java Virtual Machine (JVM) today specifically architected and optimized for the Linux operating system and x86-based servers.
The votes are in, and it looks like the Apache Harmony project is out -- or rather, sent to the "Attic," where Apache projects go when they reach the end of life.
Twitter and Azul Systems are among the new Executive Committee (EC) members.
According to a forecast released by Gartner last week, App stores and marketplaces will be among the top 10 strategic technologies for enterprises next year.
Amazon and Microsoft have teamed up to give developers a way to test Microsoft's upcoming version of its SQL Server in the Amazon cloud.
Neo Technology brought the Neo4j open-source NoSQL graph database to the Spring framework this week with the launch of Spring Data Neo4j 2.0.
Hivetext Technologies announced this week that its Java-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Jelastic will be supporting the Nginx Web server.
Cloud-based hosting service AppFog has added Java to the growing list of languages it supports, the company announced this week.
Researchers at Acros Security have found and disclosed a Google Chrome flaw it its built-in sandbox protection that could lead to a remote code execution attack.
A beta version of Sencha's mobile cloud service, aimed at developers building shared applications, has been released.
On Tuesday Google released the software developer kit for its newest version of the Android OS, code-named "Ice Cream Sandwich."
Zend Technologies announced Tuesday phpcloud.com, a new platform and partner ecosystem for development and delivery of PHP-based Web applications.