Application Development Trends' News


Microsoft Makes Case for Blockbuster Yahoo Deal

Execs describe benefits, including bolstering Windows Live and Microsoft's social networking efforts.

Use of Live Customer Data in Application Testing Still Widespread

Survey shows security is an afterthought when live data is used in business application testing.

VMware Updates Desktop Manager, Integrates With VDI

Enhanced desktop broker tool lets IT pros manage thousands of virtual desktops at a time.

Free Tool Strips Vista to Bare Bones

Tool lets you take as much of the "feature bloat" as you want out of Windows Vista.

Lessons From a Yahoo Scrum Rollout

Yahoo's top coach in Agile practices describes the process, and how it speeds up Web application delivery.

IBM Goes After SMB Virtualization With PowerVM Express

Technologies will bring new efficiencies to virtualization for small- and medium-size businesses, according to the company.

Microsoft Launches New 'Code Gallery' for Developers

Resources at the community site include code snippets and sample applications.

Hyperic Enhances Its Web App Diagnostic Tool

The company's latest reporting solution helps enterprises monitor large Web applications that need to scale.

Microsoft Partners Can Start Selling Visual Studio 2008

Sales are possible now, although the official launch of developer tool is expected late next month.

Microsoft Aims To Boost Security With New APIs for Developers

Developers coding to Redmond's OSes should use DEP security process, blogger says.

Klocwork Unveils Static Analysis Debug Tool

Company launches development tool that facilitates collaboration on software bugs, checking code before it is compiled.

Tech Data to Distribute Fujitsu Servers in U.S.

Products for data centers gain U.S. market foothold with distribution deal.

Sybase Has 'Record' Year

DBMS company gets revenue boost, but still owns just a small percentage of the market.

Excel Flaw Highlights Need for Better App Security

Experts believe the rising number of exploits targeting Excel gives hackers incentives to continually exploit applications -- rather than operating systems -- for flaws.

Microsoft Aims To Boost Security With New APIs for Developers

In a blog post today, Microsoft announced new APIs that will make security settings easier for developers, particularly for those writing solutions that will run on Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista and Windows XP SP3.

Campus Security: 13 Data Breaches Reported So Far This Month

Identity theft is seen as a possibility as data go missing.

Office 2003 SP3 To Be Pushed Out in Feb.

Microsoft Update will automatically change settings next month for Office 2003.

Microsoft Releases VS 2008 Web Deployment Projects RTW

The Visual Studio 2008 add-on has new features for creating IIS applications.

Joyent's Hosted Apps Back Up, Going Open Source

Hosted app provider describes plans after server failure.

WSO2 Unveils Open Source Mashup Server

The company also rolled out a beta of a new hosted mashup service.