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Article | 17/11/2011 Adobe donates Flex to Apache
In a move that appears to be another step away from its Flash platform, Adobe has submitted the code for its Flash-based Flex framework to the Apache ...
Article | 17/11/2011 Obfuscated code contest returns
The creators behind the long-running Internet contest to write bizarre and unnecessarily complex C programming code, called the International Obfuscat...
Article | 16/11/2011 Red Hat adds app lifecycle tools to PaaS preview
Red Hat has outfitted its OpenShift hosted application platform with a set of application development lifecycle tools to simplify deployment on the Pa...
Article | 12/11/2011 Wall Street Beat: IT rebounds as Nvidia, Cisco shares rise
With Nvidia and Cisco reporting results, there was some good news on the chip and networking front this week that, with the help of a successful debt ...
Article | 11/11/2011 Citrix exposes APIs for its collaborative software
Hoping to spark closer integration with third-party applications, Citrix has exposed a number of APIs (application programming interfaces) for three o...
Article | 9/11/2011 Software AG updates cloud road map
Software AG's WebMethods middleware and ARIS process modeling tools are now certified for deployment on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud and VMware, the...
Article | 4/11/2011 IBM open sources messaging client for embedded devices
In a move to bring network connectivity to a wider range of devices, sensors and appliances, IBM has donated the source code of its machine-to-machine...
Article | 4/11/2011 Oracle, Google again fail to settle Android lawsuit
Oracle and Google held another settlement conference on Wednesday in their ongoing lawsuit over alleged Java intellectual-property violations in the A...
Article | 3/11/2011 VMware out, Twitter in at Java oversight committee
VMware is no longer a member of the Java Community Process SE/EE Executive Committee, but Twitter has joined, according to election results finalized ...
Article | 2/11/2011 HTML5 WebSocket to hasten Web app comms
Thanks to its chattiness, the traditional communications protocol for shuttling data around the World Wide Web is not very efficient. Now an HTML5-rel...
Article | 1/11/2011 MarkLogic ties its database to Hadoop for 'Big Data' support
You can add MarkLogic to the growing list of database vendors rushing to embrace the open-source Hadoop programming framework for large-scale data pro...
Article | 29/10/2011 Opera CTO: Kill the browser scroll bar
For a relatively new medium, the World Wide Web still relies on a comparatively ancient method of presenting information to the reader, that of scroll...
Article | 27/10/2011 Black Duck refines code search
Black Duck Software has revamped its software code engine so that it indexes more quickly and filters the results, the company announced Wednesday.
Article | 26/10/2011 Dell Boomi gets a business rules engine
In addition to using Dell's Boomi integration service to move data from one cloud to another, users of the service can now also create simple business...
Article | 21/10/2011 RIM runs into trademark dispute over BBX name for future OS
Less than a week after it announced plans for a new platform called BBX for its smartphones and tablet, Research In Motion is facing the threat of leg...