Forrester Research has come out with new predictions for this year’s tech spending. It says consumers and businesses will spend $2.06 trillion on technology in 2013, a 3.3 percent increase
Oracle has launched new versions of several important developer tools and middleware, improving their cloud computing capabilities. The newly updated software includes Oracle Cloud Application Foundation, the WebLogic application server,
Crowdsourced cloud development company CloudSpokes has released a new tool designed to help gauge the quality of crowdsourced or outsourced code. Called “Thurgood,” the new tool works with all coding
Microsoft has officially completed its acquisition of InRelease, an application lifecycle management solution formerly owned by InCycle Software. The InRelease technology is slated to enhance the functionality of Microsoft’s Team
Among the many improvements in Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013 is improved exception reporting. InfoQ’s Anand Narayanaswamy writes, “While Windows 8.1 adds support for capturing stack traces for exceptions
Microsoft is tightening up the security requirements for apps listed in the Windows Store, Windows Phone Store, Office Store and Azure Marketplace. If developers are notified of a security vulnerability,
Microsoft has announced that the Office and Sharepoint Store will be expanding to 22 new countries, including Australia, Canada, the UK, Japan, India, South Africa, Germany, Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Ireland,
Microsoft has officially announced that Windows 8.1 (formerly codenamed “Blue”) will be released to manufacturers in late August. Citing unnamed sources, ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley says it is likely that
In the past, Microsoft used to go years between major updates to its key products. But now, its major desktop and server software packages are getting updates every year, while