On Thursday, Oracle filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming that, in developing its Android mobile operating system, the Internet search giant infringed on seven patents associated with the Java Platform.
Android's rocket-like trajectory in the smartphone market continues, as it's muscled out the iPhone and moved into third place worldwide among smartphone OSes.
Oracle has released an update of its Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g, extending its support to more Fusion Middleware components, Eclipse 3.6 "Helios" release and Java EE tools.
Application lifecycle management (ALM) provider Collabnet rolled out a new version of its flagship TeamForge ALM platform this week, as well as a general-availability release of its free Subversion Edge product.
Microsoft used the occasion of an open source conference last month to advance its vision of an open cloud by breaking it down into four basic principles.
Google has acquired Eclipse-based commercial software tools and services provider Instantiations for an undisclosed amount.
Intelligence analysis software is about to go open source. Matthew Burton, a former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst and software developer, is working on an open-source version of a CIA software tool called "Analysis of Competing Hypotheses."
The U.S. Army found a way to fight the sluggishness of traditional software development that's slowed even further by legendary government bureaucracy: go Agile.
Microsoft this week touted global market share gains for Internet Explorer 8 over rival browsers, citing July data from Net Applications.
In a new survey, more than half f application developers say they don't have enough time to complete their work and nearly a third said testing is their top challenge.
Microsoft Corporate Vice President Jason Zander introduces new, business-friendly application development solution at VSLive! keynote in Redmond. Beta coming August 23.
A Google program manager last week announced the company was changing its software development methodologies to speed up stable releases of the Chrome Web browser.
Visual Studio add-in extends support to Mac OS X and features improved debugging and deployment.
With working prototypes of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 in the hands of developers, and the software now at the technical preview stage, substantive judgments of the phone can be made.
Parasoft's Test is designed to provide "end-to-end visibility" for those using the company's existing products like Jtest.
Terracotta's Ehcache 2.2 also comes with new support for JAAS, improved multi-data center support and more.
New version of dotCMS sports a totally re-built user interface as well as a number of enterprise-grade enhancements.
The Android platform is hot right now, but if you really want to make money as a mobile developer, Apple's iPhone is still the place to be.
Big Blue's zEnterprise pools RISC and x86-based blades.
Here's a look at some of the newest Agile-related products hitting the market: