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Microsoft: Developer interest fueling OOXML
News Software giant has ramped up efforts on building developer tools for the Office Open XML document format, says a senior company executive.
Tags: Standards, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Developer, software company, public sector, software, industry, development tool
Malaysian tech startups get Microsoft boost
News Software giant will shell out US$84.8 million over three years and provide free software, to help startups and technopreneurs in Malaysia.
Tags: Funding, Business applications, Microsoft Windows, Business, Microsoft Corp., Start-up, Tool, Information And Communication Technology, Malaysia, Microsoft Developer Network
S'pore gets SaaS incubator
News Backed by government and various industry giants, Singapore's first software-as-a-service incubation center opens its doors to startup hopefuls.
Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Hewlett-Packard Co., Start-up, Small And Medium Enterprise, SLA, managing director, U.S., barrier, development tool
Adobe offers Flash Catalyst for testing
News Programmers can now get their hands on a beta for the new design and development tool, as well as Flash Builder, the IDE successor to Flex Builder.
Tags: Software, Development/design, Business applications, E-business, Adobe Systems Inc., Tool, Adobe PhotoShop, Cisco Catalyst, development environment, Software
IBM and Microsoft back Zend's cloud API plan
News The two firms have signed up to a Zend initiative to create an open source application-programming interface for the cloud.
Tags: Cloud computing, IBM Corp., Cloud computing, Amazon Web Services, API, co-founder, Rackspace, development tool
Notes pushed out to iPhones
News IBM has updated Domino to allow Notes email to be pushed to iPhones, and has released a free version of its Domino developer tools as a bonus.
Tags: Smart phones, Mobile applications, Data services, Mobile platforms, IBM Lotus Domino, IBM Corp., Domino Designer, software, Mobile applications, Domino 8.5.1
Oracle delivers Fusion 11g updates
News Oracle's updated middleware suite slots into its vision of an integrated software stack that pulls together not only a customer's operations but also the software company's many acquisitions.
Tags: Network infrastructure, Databases, Acquisitions, SOA, Database, Tool, middleware, Environment, social networking, Oracle Corp.
IBM makes business dashboards mobile
News The company is adding new software and consulting services to its lineup, in an effort to charm mobile enterprises.
Tags: Data warehousing/business intelligence, Smart phones, BlackBerry, Mac OS, IBM Corp., Mobile, Cloud Computing, Dashboard, software, software product
CIOs not taking a shine to Chrome
News It may be too soon for businesses to switch from Internet Explorer, but execs hope Google's browser could spur Microsoft to up its game.
Tags: Web browsers, Director Of Information Technology, Security, Web Browser, Google Inc., CIO, public sector, information technology, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, development tool
IBM offers AI help to mobile developers
News A project funded by the European Union uses brute force and intelligence to auto-optimize mobile software.
Tags: Open source, IBM Corp., Mobile, Cell Phone, Developer, operating system, consortium, Hardware, Web Site, Open source
Micro Focus buys Borland in US$75M deal
News British application-management company buys U.S. rival Borland and, in a separate deal, spends US$80 million on application testing and software quality products from Compuware.
Tags: Acquisitions, Business applications, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., software, lifecycle management, enterprise application, acquisition, Business applications, Acquisitions
PowerShell 2.0--Community Technology Preview 3 released
Techguide Sporting vast improvement, PowerShell 2.0 seems to be shaping up as a robust, reliable choice for admins with enterprise-grade features critical for many firms. Here are some highlights.
Tags: Server platforms, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows PowerShell, GUI, Community Technology Preview, scripting language, PowerShell 2.0, Integrated Scripting Environment, Microsoft Windows, Server platforms
NetBeans 5.0 nears completion
Techguide The NetBeans open-source project made a release candidate for the NetBeans 5 Java development tool available earlier this month and said that the final version is due later in January.
Oracle updates application server, Java tool
Techguide Oracle said last week that a new version of its Java application server and development tool are available with enhancements designed to ease back-end and AJAX-style Web development.
Oracle updates application server, Java tool
News Application Server 10g and Java development tool add support for server standards, AJAX Web development.
Tags: Java, App servers
