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Article | 17/08/2011 Twitter adds photo function to API
Twitter has added a native function to its API for attaching images to posts, designed to make it easier for third-party developers to include photos ...
Article | 5/08/2011 Java 8 gears up for the cloud
Now that Java 7 SE (Standard Edition) has officially been released, Oracle and members of the JCP (Java Community Process) have started mulling over w...
Article | 5/08/2011 Microsoft debuts software for homebrew gadget builds
Hardware hackers building their own gadgets may want to take a look at a new offering from Microsoft that promises to save time in prototyping new dev...
Article | 1/08/2011 Adobe launches HTML5 rich media editor
Planting the seeds to potentially disrupt its own successful franchise in Flash-based animation, Adobe has released a preview version of a new applica...
Article | 20/07/2011 HP ALM does the Kanban
Heeding the needs of "agile" programming devotees, Hewlett-Packard has augmented its Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) suite to allow application...
Article | 30/06/2011 CA to buy application testing company ITKO
CA said on Wednesday it plans to acquire Interactive TKO, which offers a simulation platform designed to reduce the time it takes to develop and test ...
Article | 17/06/2011 Microsoft to help C++ developers leverage parallel programming
Microsoft introduced this week technology for C++ developers to leverage GPUs (graphics processing units) for parallel programming.
Article | 10/06/2011 Microsoft hopes to draw Android developers to Windows Phone
Microsoft is trying to woo Android application developers, offering them help in porting applications to Windows Phone.
Article | 7/06/2011 Microsoft Windows 8 demos spur developer worry
Thanks to two brief demonstrations of Microsoft's next-generation operating system, third-party Microsoft Windows developers are expressing frustratio...
Article | 23/05/2011 Software AG buys in-memory specialist Terracotta
Software AG has entered into an agreement to acquire Terracotta, which will allow the software vendor to develop more advanced cloud services and incr...
Article | 20/05/2011 Oracle frees JRockit
Following through on a promise made last September, Oracle will now offer its legacy JRockit Java Virtual Machine (JVM) at no cost for personal and in...
Article | 18/05/2011 Microsoft regearing .Net for easy concurrency
Microsoft is building two new additions to its .Net framework that should make it much easier for programmers to utilize all the cores of a multicore ...
Article | 11/05/2011 Google to unify Android OS by Q4
Google gave Android developers several reasons to cheer on Tuesday with its announcement of new versions of the operating system, as well as the addit...
Article | 10/05/2011 Google launches discovery service for its APIs
Developers wishing to embed into their own applications some of the Web services that Google offers should take a look at a new directory service the ...
Article | 4/05/2011 New jQuery boosts web site speeds
A widely used open source library for simplifying Javascript-based Web application development has just gotten a performance jolt.