They're small and easy to create. They multiply like rabbits. The best become immensely popular very quickly and are forgotten just as fast. And they are changing the face of application development.
At JavaOne this week, Neal Gafter, a software engineer at Google, presented his proposed specification for adding closures to Java
Three patches will target critical remote code execution exploits in Microsoft Office, Publisher and the Jet Database Engine.
It's not efficiencies -- it's cutting costs.
If there is one topic that seems to get Java programmers excited, it's the question of whether to include a new feature called closures in the next version of Java.
Microsoft issued the second community technology preview of its scripting and management tool for servers using Windows operating systems.
Just because you've deployed an enterprise-grade instant messaging (IM) solution from a well-known vendor, doesn't mean you've mitigated -- let alone completely licked -- the threat posed by rogue, unsanctioned or illicit IM use in your enterprise environment.
Rock legend Neil Young joined Sun Microsystems' Executive Vice President of Software Rich Green on stage during the opening keynote of the 13th annual JavaOne conference.
Exec says Live Mesh key for tying together various online and offline solutions
Borland agrees to sell its CodeGear unit for $23 million to Embarcadero Technologies.
Deepening its existing partner relationship with Dell as a new competitive dynamic and pricing model unfolds, Citrix has announced the availability of a Dell-specific embedded version of XenServer for Dell PowerEdge servers.
Redmond hopes to challenge SAS Institute and SPSS for data mining and predictive analytic bragging rights.
Thirty years after the first unsolicited e-mail advertisement was sent, the phenomenon now known as spam is continuing to grow -- and becoming more sophisticated, creative and malicious.
Developers expand Eclipse's ability to run applications across different systems; new languages, SOA tools expected in next release.
TechNet and MSDN subscribers now have access to the "slipstream build," but Microsoft also released XP SP3 generally via Windows Update.
A Microsoft executive involved with the company's Windows Live efforts outlined some of the company's ideas about cloud-based computing and social networking technologies today.
Updated solution includes improvements to help service-enable legacy applications on the mainframe.
Last month researchers at online security company Finjan uncovered a 1.4 gigabyte cache of stolen data from North America, Europe, the Middle East and India on a Malaysian server that provided command and control functions for malware attacks in addition to being a drop site for data harvested from compromised computers.
Sun plans to announce news about open source products and partnerships at the San Francisco event.
15,000 Java developers get together this week in San Francisco.