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Article | 4/03/2011 Android, iOS attracted open source developers in 2010

If Black Duck Software's knowledge base of open source software projects serves as a barometer, then Google's Android software platform led the way in...

Article | 3/03/2011 Oracle upgrades GlassFish Java app server

Oracle is announcing on Wednesday an upgrade to the commercial version of the GlassFish Java application server, which is gaining more enterprise capa...

Article | 2/03/2011 Oracle re-launches Java community project site

Java.net has been re-launched as the home of Java community projects, featuring a new look and new tools for developers, an Oracle official said on Tu...

Article | 26/02/2011 McNealy: Sun could have won out over Linux

Sun Microsystems' mishandling of Solaris on the Intel platform left an opening for Linux to&nbsp;become established, when the company's Solaris OS...

Article | 26/02/2011 Java EE 7 work focusing on the cloud

Work on the next enterprise edition of Java is proceeding at Oracle, with the company eyeing improvements for cloud computing, REST Web services, and ...

Article | 24/02/2011 Java 7 support slated for JetBrains IDE

JetBrains this spring will offer full support for Java 7 in an upgrade to the company's IntelliJ Idea IDE, according to the JetBrains IntelliJ Idea bl...

Article | 23/02/2011 Google releases full Android 3.0 SDK

Google has made available the full SDK for the Android 3.0 mobile platform, featuring a UI redesigned for tablets and more connectivity options.

Article | 19/02/2011 Google advances Native Client Web browser technology

Google on Friday began offering a revamped SDK for its Native Client open source technology for running Web applications that execute native code insi...

Article | 16/02/2011 Novell Moonlight upgrade tracks Silverlight improvements

The Novell-sponsored Mono Project on Tuesday will offer a beta version of Moonlight 4, an open source Linux implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight ...

Article | 17/02/2011 Atlassian eyes agile teams with Bamboo tool upgrade

Eying agile software development teams, Atlassian will release on Wednesday an upgrade to its Bamboo continuous integration server that adds continuou...

Article | 9/02/2011 Microsoft, RIM look to entice mobile developers

Microsoft and RIM are making moves to assist application developers building for the vendors' respective handheld platforms, with Microsoft updating d...

Article | 5/02/2011 Mobile developers challenged to boost privacy

Branches of the American Civil Liberties Union and other organizations are launching on Friday the 2011 Develop for Privacy Challenge, a competition f...

Article | 4/02/2011 Big opportunities brewing in marketplace for Big Data

The data marketplace, where users can hunt for specialized data, is becoming a lucrative market with growing opportunities, technologists stressed at ...

Article | 4/02/2011 Red Hat, Google challenge software patents

Red Hat, Google, Dell, and several other companies have filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court challenging "poor quality" software patents,...

Article | 2/02/2011 Yahoo drops its own Hadoop distribution

Yahoo is discontinuing its distribution of the Hadoop platform and will instead focus on Apache Hadoop, the Hadoop Team at Yahoo said this week.