The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has officially retired the Excalibur Project, a platform for component and container applications built on the Java platform.
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.
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 wants to kill off its Internet Explorer 6 browser, or at least drop its usage to one percent worldwide.
According to researchers at Symantec Corp., Google's Android operating system is increasingly becoming the target of malicious code.
Salesforce.com recently announced its Service Cloud app will offer native Facebook integration and other social media tracking and scoring tools.
Altassian recently announced an upgrade of its Bamboo continuous integration server.
Microsoft's tracking protection approach used in Internet Explorer 9 will be reviewed at the Worldwide Web Consortium.
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.
The Developer Preview of the Java SE Development Kit version 7 (JDK 7) is now available for download, Oracle announced Wednesday.
Potix Corporation has released a set of jQuery-style selectors designed to give developers an easy method of selecting and accessing server-side components.
A recent panel of defense and civilian agency CIOs discussed the notion that moving applications to the cloud computing does not mean giving up control of the data -- as long as you get a guarantee in writing.
JetBrains, the Prague-based creator of code-centric Java IDE IntelliJ IDEA, this week took the wraps off the upcoming version of its flagship development environment.
Apple is riling up many in its developer community with new restrictions on what companies can sell within -- and outside of -- iPhone and iPad applications.
The formerly Linux-only Agile Manager project management application from Aldon is now available for Windows.
Java clustering infrastructure provider Terracotta has added native search capability to its Ehcache product line.
Oracle has addressed a long-standing security flaw in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Known variously as "the Mark-of-the-Beast," "the Magic Number," and "the Floating Point of Death," the bug causes the JRE to hang when parsing strings like "2.2250738585072012e-308" to a binary floating point number.
Google recently open sourced its Contracts for Java (Cofoja) tool under GNU LGPL.
CA Technologies last week updated its ERwin modeling tool with an eye toward broadening its use beyond database developers.
Research In Motion announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that its upcoming tablet PC, the PlayBook, will be be able to use cellular networks on HSPA+ and LTE standards, according to tech blog IntoMobile.