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Article | 19/11/2012 Gartner: Platform-as-a-Service market to see sharp growth
The PaaS (platform as a service) market will grow to US$1.2 billion this year, up from last year's $900 million take, as vendors and customers seek ea...
Article | 15/11/2012 Brightcove, Application Craft aim at PhoneGap with cloud-based development tools
Brightcove's native plug-in architecture for its App Cloud and Application Craft's launch of Mobile Build are the latest examples of how cross-platfor...
Article | 13/11/2012 Bloomberg opens platform for third-party apps
Bloomberg has launched an app portal that will allow subscribers of its financial information service to access additional third-party functionality, ...
Article | 13/11/2012 Oracle takes stake in PaaS vendor Engine Yard
Oracle has taken a minority stake in Engine Yard, maker of a PaaS (platform as a service) for Ruby, PHP and Node.js applications, the company announce...
Article | 12/11/2012 EMC's Tucci: Global economy hinges on US budget deal
EMC CEO, Joe Tucci, hass called for CEOs to put pressure on US politicians to strike a budget deal, saying that the direction of the domestic and glo...
Article | 7/11/2012 Oracle hit with patent lawsuit over WebLogic Server
Oracle is finding itself caught up in another Java-related patent lawsuit, but this time it's the one getting sued.
Article | 6/11/2012 HP simplifies automated software testing suite
Hewlett-Packard is incorporating three different components, previously available separately, into its HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) automated t...
Article | 5/11/2012 Microsoft updates C++ compiler
Microsoft is updating its C++ compiler for its Visual Studio 12 IDE (integrated development environment) so that Windows application developers can us...
Article | 2/11/2012 Windows 8 presses developers to update their skills
Microsoft likes to talk about Windows 8 as being Windows "reimagined," and in many ways it is quite a departure from its predecessors. To allow the op...
Article | 1/11/2012 Microsoft launches hosted ALM service
After a year in beta, Microsoft has launched its Team Foundation Service, a hosted version of its application lifecycle management (ALM) software. Its...
Article | 31/10/2012 Windows Phone 8 gets boost from inclusion in cross-platform development tools
Cross-platform development frameworks such as Apache Cordova, Sencha Touch and Xamarin.Mobile are all compatible with Windows Phone 8, making it easie...
Article | 30/10/2012 Microsoft releases Windows Phone 8 SDK
One day after the launch of its next generation mobile operating system, Windows Phone 8, Microsoft has released the SDK (software development kit) th...
Article | 30/10/2012 Microsoft CEO Ballmer touts Windows 8 momentum
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off the company's annual Build developer conference emphasizing the momentum of the company's new Windows 8 and Win...
Article | 29/10/2012 Google to issue credits for App Engine outage
Google will give refunds to paid subscribers of App Engine, its Web application development and hosting service, which suffered a partial outage on Fr...
Article | 22/10/2012 Oracle brings cross platform Java dev to mobile devices
Oracle is augmenting its Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) to allow developers to create mobile applications for Apple and Android device...