According to an announcement last week by the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C), the HTML 5 Working Draft has reached its "Last Call" stage, which allows final testing and broad public comment for its specifications.
Lodsys, a patent holder that has threatened iOS developers with legal action for "infringing" on its patent, may have expanded its targets to include Android developers.
Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest mobile carrier, finally has a Windows Phone 7 smartphone to offer the public.
Java/.NET interoperability solutions provider JNBridge is jumping deep into the cloud with a major update of its flagship toolset.
Oracle has filed the first of two new Java Specification Requests (JSRs) meant to "update and revitalize" the Java Community Process (JCP).
On Tuesday, Amazon announced that its Amazon Web Services' (AWS) Relational Database Service (RDS) can now support Oracle 11G Release 2 databases.
Scheduled to be available to consumers this fall, Windows is kicking off the march to 'Mango' with the release of the toolkit for developers today.
Apple has weighed in on the recent dispute between its developers and a company charging patent infringement -- and come down firmly on the side of developers.
Java clustering infrastructure provider Terracotta announced this morning that it's being acquired by German business process management (BPM) vendor Software AG.
Smartphone growth continues its meteoric rise globally, with Google's Android operating system outshining all competitors, according to a new study by Gartner.
In a move that could have implications for the entire mobile development community, developers of apps for Apple's iOS mobile platform are being accused of patent violation and ordered to pay up.
Microsoft emphasized the Agile capabilities of the next Visual Studio release (vNext) at its Tech-Ed conference in Atlanta this week.
Miguel de Icaza, the original leader of the Mono Project, an open source implementation of the .NET Framework based on C# and the Common Language Runtime (CLR), has launched a new startup company called Xamarin.
Microsoft on Monday launched a new Team Foundation Server (TFS) software development kit (SDK) for Java.
Microsoft showed off the next version of its flagship integrated development environment (IDE) at its 2011 Tech-Ed North America conference, kicking off today in Atlanta, Ga.
Microsoft is showing off what it has in store for customers using its cloud platform at this year's Tech-Ed conference with Azure and device-compatible announcements.
Google announced the release of App Engine 1.5.0 at its annual I/O conference, underway this week in San Francisco.
Hot on the heels of Oracle's decision to move Hudson to the Eclipse Foundation, Sonatype disclosed plans to open source all of its Maven and Eclipse integration work and donate "significant architectural improvements and key commercial features" to the proposed Hudson CI project.
After Monday's news that a French security firm had found a zero-day exploit in Chrome's code, personnel at Google are pointing to Flash as the issue.
Enterprise software giant SAP is about halfway through what may be the largest conversion ever to Agile development practices and it's going well so far, according to a recent interview with Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe.