A new option for Amazon's EC2 service allows customers to sign long-term commitments in exchange for substantial discounts.
A March DNS security patch doesn't work on compromised servers, according to nCircle.
Microsoft is scrapping its cloud-based SQL Data Services effort and moving to a pure relational model.
Microsoft this week unexpectedly issued a second release candidate of its ASP.NET Model View Controller.
The fixes will address spoofing and remote code execution attacks.
Microsoft's chief security advisor blamed the spread of the Conficker worm on laggard IT staff.
FathomDB, an obscure two-person company, last week launched its own cloud-based relational database service.
Open source Web framework Lift now available under Apache 2.0 license.
New data visualization tools are available for those developing on the Microsoft Silverlight 2 Web multimedia platform.
The patch addresses reliability problems with the version of Internet Explorer 8 that runs on Windows 7 Beta.
VSLive! San Francisco showcased applications developed with Redmond's four rich client technologies: Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight, Windows 7 Touch and Surface.
Google revealed a new fee structure for its cloud-based hosting service for developers of Python-based applications.
Apple is touting improved JavaScript performance and built-in developer tools in browser beta.
The browser prototype uses its own operating system to separate processes and control security.
Software developers can access dev tools anywhere using the cloud-based service.