Application Development Trends' News


AccuRev Touts Agility of Eclipse Plug-In

AccuRev highlighted the benefits for Agile development when it announced improvements to its plug-in for the popular Eclipse development environment.

Amazon Appstore Opens, Without AT&T Support

The Amazon Appstore for Android is officially open for business.

Eclipse Foundation Launches Open Beta for Web-Based Orion Project

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.

UniBrows Tool Provides Continuity Solution for IE 6 Web Apps

Browsium Inc. has released a tool for IT orgainzations dealing with the situation of upgrading IE 6-based Web apps.

Amazon App Store To Offer Exclusive Angry Birds Title

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.

LightSwitch Beta 2 Released by Microsoft

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.

Oracle Delivers Mobile Java Framework for Cross-Platform App Creation

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

IE 9 Download Goes Live

On Monday night Microsoft released the final version of Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9).

VMware Buys Visual, Java-Based Cloud Development Platform

Virtualization vendor VMware recently announced the acquisition of WaveMaker, a San Francisco-based provider of a graphical development platform for Java-based Web and cloud applications.

GlassFish 3.1 Features OSGi Improvements, Brings Back Clustering Support

The latest release of Oracle's GlassFish Java application server, announced last week, puts a lot of emphasis on developer productivity.

IE 9 To Launch Monday, March 14

The final version of Internet Explorer 9 will be released by Microsoft on Monday, March 19.

Apache Retires Excalibur

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has officially retired the Excalibur Project, a platform for component and container applications built on the Java platform.

Android Takes Top Spot in Smartphone Market

According to a comScore report released yesterday, the Android mobile OS has overtaken Research In Motion's BlackBerry OS to become the highest selling smartphone operating system in the U.S.

Survey: Security Processes Lacking in Corporate Application Development

According to a report by Creative Intellect Consulting, 59 percent of enterprise development teams are not following quality and security processes "rigorously" when developing new software.

Microsoft Site Asks World To Stop Using IE 6

Microsoft wants to kill off its Internet Explorer 6 browser, or at least drop its usage to one percent worldwide.

Malware Targeting Android Phones Growing

According to researchers at Symantec Corp., Google's Android operating system is increasingly becoming the target of malicious code.

Salesforce.com's Service Cloud Goes for Social Media

Salesforce.com recently announced its Service Cloud app will offer native Facebook integration and other social media tracking and scoring tools.

Bamboo Agile Tool Offers Continuous Deployment

Altassian recently announced an upgrade of its Bamboo continuous integration server.

IE 9's Browser Tracking Protection May Be Adoped by W3C

Microsoft's tracking protection approach used in Internet Explorer 9 will be reviewed at the Worldwide Web Consortium.

Amazon Hopes Its Marketing Edge Draws Android Devs

Software development companies, especially smaller ones that may only have a handful (or fewer) of developers, usually know a lot more about writing code than they do about marketing their products.