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Article | 8/02/2013 Oracle to release yet more patches for Java
Oracle isn't done releasing patches for Java SE this month, as another batch will arrive Feb. 19, according to a company blog post.
Article | 8/02/2013 Critical vulnerability in cURL library could affect large number of applications
A critical buffer overflow vulnerability patched this week in the widely used open-source cURL library (libcurl) has the potential to expose a large n...
Article | 5/02/2013 Python gets a big data boost from DARPA
DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has awarded $3 million to software provider Continuum Analytics to help fund the developmen...
Article | 5/02/2013 HP's new ALM service puts sticky notes in the cloud
Betting that it can help agile development teams finally rid themselves of messy hand-written sticky notes, Hewlett-Packard is launching a new hosted ...
Article | 5/02/2013 BlackBerry sets stage for more games on BlackBerry 10
BlackBerry and Unity are working together on an add-on for BlackBerry 10 smartphones that should make it easier for developers to create games for the...
Article | 4/02/2013 Google and Mozilla hail WebRTC interop between Chrome and Firefox
Developers now can create audio and video communications applications that work across the Chrome and Firefox browsers without the need for plug-ins.
Article | 1/02/2013 Oracle loses appeal of ruling in Hewlett-Packard suit
A court has rejected Oracle's appeal of a judge's ruling in the lawsuit Hewlett-Packard brought over Oracle's decision to stop porting its software to...
Article | 30/01/2013 Microsoft embraces open-source Git for development tools
Once vehemently opposed to open-source software, Microsoft has warmed to the development model over the years and will now take the unusual step of in...
Article | 29/01/2013 Ruby on Rails receives the third security patch in less than a month
Developers of the Ruby on Rails Web development framework released versions 3.0.20 and 2.3.16 of the software on Monday in order to address a critical...
Article | 28/01/2013 Twitter acquires mobile-app crash analyzer Crashlytics
Crashlytics, a year-old vendor of crash analytics for iPhone and iPad apps, says it has been acquired by Twitter.
Article | 25/01/2013 Oracle's Java security head: We will 'fix Java,' communicate better
Oracle's head of Java security is promising the vendor will "fix" issues with the widely used programming language, as well as improve its outreach ef...
Article | 22/01/2013 Mozilla launches two Firefox OS-based phones for developers
Mozilla has launched Keon and Peak, two smartphones based on the web-centric Firefox OS platform.
Article | 11/01/2013 Java put on a regular release schedule
Starting with Java 8, to be released in September, the development team behind the widely used programming language plans to release a new version of ...
Article | 8/01/2013 Ford launches app developer program for its cars
Ford opened its voice-activated systems to programmers Monday with an application developer program for vehicles that it announced at the Internationa...
Article | 7/01/2013 C variants rule programming language roost
Information technology may thrive on the new, but it is heavily supported by a programming language more than 40 years old.