Every June, the Eclipse Foundation releases a new set (or “train”) of projects related to the open source Eclipse IDE. This year’s train, named “Indigo,” includes 62 different projects with
Microsoft’s upcoming “Mango” update for Windows Phone 7 re-thinks the relationship between apps and the platform in two fundamental ways. First, the platform itself does many of the things that
HP has released Vertica Analytic Database 5.0, the latest version of its flagship parallel columnar database. While the update has many new features, the new SDK that accompanies the database
According to Dice.com, demand for developers with cloud experience soared up 221 percent last year. And surveys from Gartner and the Eclipse Foundation also indicate a surge in demand for
After dissecting the Windows 8 Milestone 3 (M3) build that recently leaked to the Web, WindowsNow.com blogger Robert McLaws reported that it includes a Hyper V 3.0 hypervisor. “Apparently it’s
Microsoft has released a free beta version of an SDK that allows developers to create apps for its Kinect motion-sensing controller. The controller broke sales records when it debuted as
Unnamed sources tell TechCrunch that Facebook is working on a mobile platform aimed at breaking Apple’s stranglehold on app distribution for the iPhone and iPad. “Project Spartan” would support HTML5-based
Application development tool vendor Parasoft has announced the release of a new testing platform called Virtualize. Enterprise development teams often face difficulties when testing new applications that rely on data
At AMD’s Fusion Developer Summit, Microsoft principal native-languages architect Herb Sutter unveiled a new tool to help C++ developers build massively parallel applications. C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (AMP) will appear