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.
Open source business intelligence (BI) vendor Pentaho Corporation today released version 1.0 of olap4j, an open Java API for building OLAP applications.
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.
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.
Gorilla Logic this week announced a new version of its free, open source FoneMonkey testing tool for iOS applications.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
According to an MSDN blog posting, Microsoft will be offering an update to its smartphone OS -- at a catch.
Microsoft's Server Application Virtualization tool for Windows Azure was included in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 beta 2, released earlier this week.
AccuRev highlighted the benefits for Agile development when it announced improvements to its plug-in for the popular Eclipse development environment.
The Amazon Appstore for Android is officially open for business.
The Eclipse Foundation today unveiled an open beta version of a new hosted implementation of its nascent Orion project -- its proposed browser-based Web development platform.
Browsium Inc. has released a tool for IT orgainzations dealing with the situation of upgrading IE 6-based Web apps.
In an effort to drive traffic to its imminent app store, Amazon.com will exclusively offer a spin-off version of one of the most popular mobile device games of all time -- Angry Birds.
Beta 2 of the Visual Studio LightSwitch rapid business application development tool was announced to be available for immediate download by Microsoft today at its Developer Tools Partner Summit in Redmond.
The Application Development Framework (ADF) Mobile Client is designed to let developers working in Oracle's JDeveloper IDE to build enterprise apps for mobile platforms using the skills they already have, the company said
On Monday night Microsoft released the final version of Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9).