Application Development Trends' News


HP's Big EDS Plans Include Big Cuts

HP's absorption of outsourcing firm EDS also includes a plan to cut its workforce.

Microsoft To Expand Security Lifecycle Expertise

New Security Development Lifecycle tools and services will be available in November.

Cloud Computing: More Work for Admins

Alistair Croll, a principal analyst for consulting coalition BitCurrent, argues that moving to Internet-based Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings, "won't eliminate work [but will] just change the work," for IT administrators.

Zend and Adobe Partner on RIAs at PHP User Conference

ZendCon featured a partnership announcement, bringing together PHP and Adobe's rich Internet application technologies.

Ranorex Studio Automates Testing Tasks

Testing tools vendor Ranorex's new automated application-testing solution supports C#, VB.NET, Python and C++ languages.

Components Vendor Puts Icons on the Menu

Infragistics unveils new icon packs to improve application navigation and enhance Web sites.

SQL Injection Attack Hits Magazine Site

BusinessWeek's Web site was hit at the back end through SQL injection.

Cray Unveils CX1 Supercomputer for Office Use

Intel and Microsoft technologies are integrated in the new high-performance computing machine.

VMware's Vision of Virtualization as the OS

VMware aims for the cloud with its new Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS)

SQL Injection Attack Hits BusinessWeek Site

Security firm Sophos disclosed on Monday that BusinessWeek magazine's Web site had been hacked.

Citrix Releases XenServer 5

On the first day of VMware's VMworld conference happening in Las Vegas this week, Citrix Systems -- a competitor of VMware that's also at the conference -- announced the release of XenServer 5, the latest version of its server virtualization solution.

Intel Rolls Out Six-Core Xeon 7400 Processors

New processors aimed at datacenter and virtualization markets.

Privacy Uncertain With New IE8 Feature

A "suggested sites" feature in Internet Explorer 8 sends information to Microsoft, but it's not retained, Redmond contends.

Microsoft, IBM and EMC Team on ECM Interop Spec

The companies plan to foster an interoperability spec for ECM systems through OASIS.

VMworld Preview: VMware's Vision of Virtualization as the OS

The annual VMworld user conference gets underway today in Las Vegas, with the event's host betting big on a new strategy that redefines its market-leading virtualization management products.

Office 2.0 Spotlighted Startups

The product announcements came fast a furious at the third annual Office 2.0 conference, which wrapped up last week in San Francisco.

Lumbering Global Economy Affects IT Industry

A second-quarter survey found sluggish IT spending in both North America and Europe.

Google's Chrome Browser Contains Microsoft Code

The newly launched Web browser uses Microsoft's Windows Template Library, and other open source code.

First Look: IE8 Beta 2 -- Catching Up With Firefox

Internet Explorer's usability has improved with the latest beta version.

Microsoft and Novell Roll Out Virtualized Linux Solution

As part of their interoperability partnership, both companies verified running Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Server as a guest OS on Windows and Hyper-V.