The software development life cycle is enhanced by virtualization. An overview of what you should consider.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/15/2007
Sun Microsystems commanded the spotlight at its annual JavaOne developer conference in San Francisco last week. The company announced a new JavaFX product line and Java SE development kit, along with an Ericsson partnership (see this week's news for full stories).
- By John K. Waters
- 05/11/2007
When Microsoft unveiled Silverlight at the MIX07 conference in Las Vegas last week, the new cross-platform browser plug-in for rich media content lacked support for the popular Opera Web browser.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 05/08/2007
Sun Microsystems today unveiled a new product line at its annual JavaOne conference, underway this week in San Francisco. Built on and around Java, JavaFX is aimed at the growing market for rich Internet applications (RIA).
- By John K. Waters
- 05/08/2007
Dell has become the first hardware maker to join Microsoft and Novell in their effort to enhance interoperability between the Windows and Linux platforms.
All seven updates will address critical issues, Microsoft said. Redmond lumped the bulletins into several groups, two of which affect Windows.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/04/2007
BizTalk R2 represents a change in thinking about RFID, or radio frequency identification, says Microsoft product manager.
The fortunes of the Ubuntu version of Linux got a boost on Tuesday as Dell Computer, Inc. announced it will begin selling the open source operating system with selected desktop and laptop models in its consumer lines
Two technologies. One chemistry experiment. Can they mix?
- By Greg Shields and Steve Kaplan
- 05/01/2007
Component vendor Telerik announced this week that it is readying a set of tools for creating applications with Microsoft's Silverlight rich media plug-in, formerly code-named Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E).
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 04/27/2007
A growing number of financial services firms are embarking on open source projects, but they are moving cautiously when it comes to mission-critical applications.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/27/2007
In a major salvo that ups the stakes in the emerging battle for mindshare among developers and architects building Rich Internet Applications, Adobe today said it is releasing its Flex SDK into the open source community.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 04/26/2007
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. is introducing a software application that can make Palm Treos and other Windows-based mobile devices made by rivals work like a BlackBerry
- By The Associated Press
- 04/23/2007
Samsung Electronics Co. and Microsoft Corp. said Thursday they have entered into a patent licensing agreement focused on the technology companies' consumer electronics lines.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/19/2007
- By The Associated Press
- 04/17/2007