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Google's Android Market Store Faces New Threat from Amazon

Amazon still won't comment, but evidence is building up that a competitor to Google's Android Market is on the horizon from the Internet retailer, although developers may not like the stricter requirements.

Parasoft Adds Manual Testing to Agile Tool

Parasoft recently announced it has added manual testing integration to its Concerto for Agile software development and management tool.

RIM Launches New BlackBerry App Dev Platforms for Enterprise, Web, Social

Research in Motion (RIM) unveiled a new enterprise development platform at its annual developer conference in San Francisco this week, along with a new Web development platform, a new "social platform," an advertising service, a new set of analytics services and other tools and services.

Object DB Provides Direct Access to Java Devs

InterSystems Corporation today released CACHÉ 2010, its flagship high-performance object DB with new features aimed at organizations with complex, high-volume, Java-based event processing environments.

Microsoft Releases Patch for ASP.NET Flaw

Microsoft released an "important" patch to address an information disclosure security vulnerability associated with ASP.NET systems.

Developers More Optimistic About Android's Long-Term Future than iPhone's

Developers see more long-term potential for Android than iPhone, according to a survey of more than 2,300 developers of mobile device applications.

Microsoft To Release Out-of-Band Patch for ASP.NET Security Flaw

Microsoft plans to release a patch on Tuesday for a security issue associated with ASP.NET systems.

JavaOne 2010 Round-Up: Oracle's Plans for Java SE, JavaFX, Eclipse Sapphire, More

The first JavaOne Conference since Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems may have been stuffed into the Hilton Hotel, a half mile from its usual Moscone Center environs, but it still managed to deliver some useful sessions, worthwhile keynotes and plenty of vendor announcements.

Potential Facebook Phone Not Denied by CEO

The "Facebook phone" rumors gained more credibility with a Bloomberg report that quoted "three people familiar with the matter" as saying that the social-networking behemoth is working on two phones, and that AT&T may be the carrier.

Agile Notes: Concerto Upgrade, Census Eyes Agile, New Alliance Director

Here's a roundup of recent news of note in the Agile industry.

Microsoft Kills Key Components of the 'Oslo' Modeling Platform

It's no surprise that 'Oslo', also known as SQL Server Modeling, has not survived the on-going battle of competing data platform strategies at Microsoft.

Verizon App Store To Compete with Android Market

Verizon Wireless has opened up its own app store, V CAST Apps, to the Android crowd and is inviting developers to submit apps for inclusion.

Is a Facebook Phone Coming?

Facebook says "No," but others are saying "Yes."

UPDATED: Security Hack Exposes Forms Authentication in ASP.NET

Flaw in AES encryption allows tool to crack Machine Key values used to encrypt cookies in 30 to 50 minutes. Microsoft offers guidance on limiting exposure.

Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Dev Tools Released

The final versions of the free Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools for building Silverlight and XNA applications are available for download—just weeks before the first devices are expected at retail.

Google Re-Releases GWT Designer, Other Eclipse, Java Dev Tools; Offers Them Free

Google on Thursday announced that it is relaunching several products acquired in its August purchase of Instantiations and offering them to developers at no charge.

Microsoft Exec Slams Android, Outlines Windows Phone 7 Strategy

A Microsoft executive answered questions today about the company's Windows Phone 7 business strategy at the Deutsche Bank Technology Conference in San Francisco.

Microsoft Launches Public Beta of Internet Explorer 9

With the release of its IE 9 beta, Microsoft on Wednesday promised that Web surfing would, from here on out, be about the sites users visit and not about the browser.

BigMemory Ehcache Add-On Dumps Java Garbage Collection

Terracotta has released to beta a new Java add-on for the Enterprise version of its Ehcache distributed Java caching software designed to free Java applications from the memory and performance constraints of Garbage Collection (GC).

Open Source Java ESB Moves into the Cloud

Web-based middleware maker MuleSoft today unveiled a new version of its enterprise service bus (ESB), Mule ESB 3.0 Community.