Visual Studio 2012 Update 1, a major enhancement to the company's latest integrated development environment, which is geared towards modern development and Windows 8, was released by Microsoft on Monday.
Developer tools and solutions provider Telerik has released a new version of its framework for building applications and Web sites with HTML5 and JavaScript that supports Java.
VMware-sponsored Cloud Foundry announced this week it has moved to simplify its effort to provide PaaS interoperability with the introduction of Cloud Foundry Core.
The Web site Tech in Asia reported on statistics from Beijing-based Analysys International, which show Android with a 90.1 percent market share in China as of Q3 2012.
On Friday Microsoft released the first service pack for SQL Server 2012.
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VMware's SpringSource division this week published the first release candidate (RC1) of the Spring Framework 3.2.
VMware has launched the latest version of its in-memory data platform, vFabric GemFire 7.0, which offers new features aimed at making it easier for Java developers to build apps that process massive volumes of data and scale within the cloud.
Informatica Corp. recently announced its new PowerCenter Big Data Edition software, offering a "no-coding environment" to increase big data development productivity when using technologies such as Hadoop.
Monetization of the Android app market is generally following an upward trend: each successive release of the platform tends to be more profitable for developers than the last.
Microsoft released a phone-focused version of the .NET Framework this week as well as the Windows Phone 8 SDK.
Microsoft held a launch event on Monday in San Francisco for its Windows Phone 8 platform.
The Mono project this week announced an update of the open source .NET development framework that includes a C# 5.0 compiler supporting asynchronous programming, along with a host of other improvements.
Continuuity Inc. this week announced Big Data AppFabric, consisting of big data application development tools and an application runtime platform running in the cloud.
Java toolmaker ZeroTurnaround this week released an updated version of its JRebel JVM plug-in for IBM WebSphere (WAS) 8.5 that supports the Liberty profile.
The Versant JPA, launched last week, features "multiple firsts for NoSQL Big Data technologies," according to the company.
The Open Group's project to produce a framework for SOA governance has passed a milestone that makes it an international standard.
The new ADF Mobile is HTML5- and Java-based, and aimed at developers looking to build and deploy enterprise apps to mobile environments from a single code base.
Facebook has released a new SDK for Android, allowing a solution for developers to integrate Facebook functionality into their apps.
IBM emphasized Platform as a Service (PaaS) as the next frontier for enterprise cloud computing at its annual Cloud Innovation Forum in New York last week.