At the Computex event in Taiwan this week, Microsoft presented its vision of a mobile computing world that will include "consumer Internet devices" alongside netbooks.
While Palm is set to launch its widely publicized Pre, the developer camps that were scheduled to take place June 13 have been postponed for two months.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/04/2009
IBM's Rational division this week gave attendees at its annual user conference a peek at three new products focused on the notion of "software investment management."
- By John K. Waters
- 06/03/2009
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison made a surprise appearance at the annual JavaOne conference in San Francisco this morning.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/02/2009
Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 will be generally available on Oct. 22, 2009.
A recent study from Gartner Inc. suggests that in some cases SOA adopters might be service-enabling chiefly for the sake of service-enabling.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 06/02/2009
On the eve of its annual JavaOne Conference, Sun Microsystems unveiled a new version of the OpenSolaris operating system.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/02/2009
Microsoft cancelled its standalone Office Developer Conference for this year and instead will fold the content into its SharePoint Conference 2009 event, which is scheduled for the fall.
This year's JavaOne represents a changing of the guard for Sun Microsystems, longtime conference sponsor and steward of the Java platform, which is set to be acquired by Oracle.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/01/2009
Adobe Systems today is providing developers with the first public look at its next-generation tooling for creating rich Internet applications (RIAs) with the release of two key betas and updates to its framework.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/01/2009
ALM supplier Borland last week launched a new requirements management package that promises to reduce the number of late and costly changes to software development projects.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/01/2009
Microsoft executive Tami Reller fielded questions about the company's Windows business segment on Thursday in New York City.
Microsoft issued a security advisory on Friday describing a newly disclosed bug in Microsoft DirectShow that could enable remote code execution attacks.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/29/2009
Now that there's some movement toward a U.S. cybersecurity policy, it's time to roll up the sleeves and get to work, and that task won't be easy, software security experts suggested on Friday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/29/2009
On Wednesday, Microsoft released the latest Visual Studio (VS) extension preview for building apps that run on its Windows Azure cloud computing operating system and services platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/29/2009
Microsoft this week released a new community technology preview (CTP) of its modeling environment code-named "Oslo."
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/29/2009
Google this week took developers off guard by revealing Google Wave, a real-time shared communications stream that can include text, photos, videos and maps to which all participants have access.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/29/2009
Microsoft announced "Bing" on Thursday, the company's newest search engine technology and brand campaign.
Microsoft published Service Pack 2 (SP2) on Monday for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
A private cloud could offer almost all the benefits of a public cloud, but without the attendant security and privacy headaches, said Jim Whitehurst, president and chief executive officer of enterprise open source software vendor Red Hat.
- By Joab Jackson
- 05/27/2009