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Microsoft wants to host your software
News At last month's Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft also confirmed it would offer web-based versions of its Office applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Morrow said the video rental... [18 Nov 2008]
Nokia: Open source needs a lesson in business
News These devices are popular among developers in the Maemo developer community but, being something of a testbed, have not yet seen much traction in the mass market. In his speech, Jaaksi detailed some of the lessons Nokia... [12 Jun 2008]
Critics label Microsoft's OOXML a 'marketing tool'
News The developer of XML and a former International Organization for Standardization (ISO) committee chair have both claimed Microsoft was interested in having Office Open XML (OOXML) accredited as an international standard... [21 Apr 2008]
Google invites developers to play on the Bigtable
News Niklas Richardson, technical director of independent web developer Monochrome Ltd, said: "Google App Engine provides a fantastic opportunity for individual developers and small web-development companies. [09 Apr 2008]
Microsoft mobile - king of open world?
News Zac Bowling, a developer involved in the open source Mono project, was initially excited about the iPhone SDK, but now calls it a "joke" for the way Apple has locked-down applications on the device. Smith told... [20 Mar 2008]
Microsoft backtracks on Vista SP1 update
News Vista SP1 is already available to subscribers to the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) but won't receive a formal public release until mid March. One irate Windows Vista Ultimate user replied to White's blog post,... [21 Feb 2008]
Top 10 mobile & wireless stories of the year
News The search giant did finally serve up a mobile offering for 2007 - not a phone but an open source software developer platform called Android. The year has also seen various Euro policy moves in the mobile sphere - with... [13 Dec 2007]
Facebook facing "app fatigue"
News At Wednesday night's Facebook Developer Meetup in New York, the mood could be summed up by the appearance of a clean-cut young entrepreneur who had written "I NEED AN APP" in thick black marker on his name tag. [18 Jun 2007]
RIM co-CEO: Mobile apps are the future
News The developer tools are for the BlackBerry Java Development Environment and should enable or enhance applications such as instant messaging, social networking, web browsing and multimedia. What may still surprise... [29 Mar 2007]
IT grads top jobless league table
News I did a placement (industrial trainee role) at IBM in my third year as an application developer, working on VoIP services. The level of students applying for computer science degrees has halved in the last five years,... [03 Jan 2007]
Windows Vista: Start planning now
News We can't run one of our bespoke pieces of software on it and the developer has said they won't look at it until Vista is out," he said. The hardware requirements for Vista will also be a factor in the pace that... [29 Nov 2006]
Microsoft to arm developers with Vista toolkits
News Microsoft is to hand out three developer toolsets, in the hopes of spurring programmers to create applications for Windows Vista, Office 2007 and the web. The software giant is hosting two developer... [07 Nov 2006]
Microsoft grapples with mystery DRM cracker
News Microsoft has filed a federal lawsuit against an alleged hacker who broke through its copy protection technology, charging that the mystery developer somehow gained access to its copyrighted source code. [27 Sep 2006]
Businesses struggle with SOA complexity
News The problem, according to Ovum, is that traditional IT management processes and tools are not always up to the task of monitoring and managing SOA applications and that SOA deployments require as much support and investment in... [10 Aug 2006]
Microsoft to hunt 'new species' of bugs
News Ilfak Guilfanov, a European software developer who made headlines by beating Microsoft to the punch with a fix for the Windows flaw, agreed. By keeping its security processes current, the software maker aims to avoid the... [10 Jan 2006]
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