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Article | 12/02/2011 Nokia's pact with Microsoft puts Symbian developers in play
Developers who had previously built a business around coding apps for Symbian smartphones were put on notice Friday that they should pick another plat...
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 | 9/02/2011 Yahoo sets fees for BOSS search developer program
Yahoo has established a fee structure for the upcoming version of BOSS, a platform that developers use to create custom search engines on top of Yahoo...
Article | 21/01/2011 Cobol comes to the cloud
Micro Focus has updated its developer platform for the Cobol programming language, adding the ability to run Cobol applications on Microsoft's Azure c...
Article | 13/01/2011 Microsoft set to offer Web dev tools
Making multiple moves in the Web development space, Microsoft is introducing this week both a website building tool for neophytes and the third major ...
Article | 12/01/2011 The best hardware and software of the year
Each year, the editors and reviewers of the InfoWorld Test Center gather to look over the list of products that earned the highest marks in stand-alon...
Article | 13/01/2011 Microsoft to release WebMatrix dev software
Microsoft plans to launch an application on Thursday for quickly ramping up websites and lightweight Web applications, called WebMatrix.
Article | 12/01/2011 Google releases API for its URL shortener
External developers can now integrate Google's Goo.gl URL shortening service into their websites and online applications through a just-released API (...
Article | 18/12/2010 University gives Java parallelism a boost
Java developers are getting more assistance in writing parallel programs for multi-core systems with another technology from the University of Illinoi...
Article | 17/12/2010 W3C offers mobile app etiquette
In an effort to make mobile applications easier to use, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) has established a set of guidelines for developers to keep...
Article | 10/12/2010 Apache resigns from Java community
Protesting what it perceives as Oracle's undue control of Java, the Apache Software Foundation has resigned its seat from the Java SE/EE Executive Com...
Article | 9/12/2010 Python 3.2 eases concurrent development
The next version of the widely used Python programming language will offer greater support for writing multithreaded applications, a challenging duty ...
Article | 8/12/2010 Salesforce.com unveils Database.com
Salesforce.com is getting into the cloud database business with a new on-demand service, Database.com, set to be announced Tuesday at the Dreamforce c...
Article | 1/12/2010 HP fuses dev management and testing tools
With the release of HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) 11 package, Hewlett-Packard is hoping to streamline the process of application developm...
Article | 24/11/2010 Phone makers, software vendors push Web-based apps
Companies including Mozilla, Opera Software, Palm and Sony Ericsson are trying to accelerate the use of Web standards when developing applications for...