OpenWorld to shed light on Oracle's Java plans
Oct. 09, 2009
Application development will figure prominently at the conference as Oracle steps closer to acquiring Sun
Yahoo to promote home page apps during Open Hack Day
Oct. 09, 2009
Yahoo has opened the application floodgates to its home page, with hopes that external developers will soon build tens of thousands of programs that Yahoo.com's more than 330 million visitors will find useful.
PHP 6 to boost internationalization with Unicode
Oct. 21, 2009
The Unicode support plans are made with an eye toward helping developers write apps that can be deployed in multiple markets
Flash app development extended to HTML users
Sep. 15, 2009
Startup FHTML launches technology to leverage Adobe's rich Internet platform using HTML skills
New security standard MashSSL builds application trust
Mar. 30, 2009
Application mashups are gaining traction in the enterprise. There's no doubt that productivity can be enhanced when new functionality can be delivered quickly and conveniently by combining information from multiple ...
Java yields to other languages on the Java Virtual Machine
Jul. 16, 2009
Move over, Java. There's more to the Java Virtual Machine than just the Java language these days -- and the field of languages for JVM is growing.
Google to promote Web speed on new developer site
Jun. 23, 2009
Google has created a Web site for developers that is focused exclusively on making Web applications, sites and browsers faster.
HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight?
Jun. 16, 2009
HTML 5, a groundbreaking upgrade to the prominent Web presentation specification, could become a game-changer in Web application development, one that might even make obsolete such plug-in-based rich Internet ...
Companies get checklist for complying with PCI standard
Mar. 10, 2009
The organization responsible for administering the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is offering new guidance to companies on how to focus their PCI DSS compliance efforts so as to more quickly them in ...
How OOXML vote could change all -- and nothing
Feb. 28, 2008
Next month, national standards bodies will vote for the second time on whether to adopt the Office Open XML (OOXML) document format as an international standard.
OASIS making it easier to use standards without fee worries
Jun. 17, 2009
OASIS is making it easier to implement its standards without users having to toss and turn over whether somebody will demand a fee for using technologies leveraged in the standards.
MySpace enhances data portability system
Mar. 18, 2009
MySpace will enhance its data portability system on Wednesday with new features for both members and application developers, the latest move by a social-networking company to extend the ways in which its data can be ...
PCI standards body moves ahead on payment-application cert
Apr. 16, 2008
PCI Security Standards Council releases list of certified payment applications under Payment Application Data Security Standard, while Council general manager Bub Russo describes upcoming standard efforts, and office- ...
Microsoft to give its first JavaOne keynote
May. 22, 2009
Here's a first: Microsoft will be giving a keynote address at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco next month.
Angered by Apple delay, hacker posts Mac Java attack
May. 20, 2009
In an effort to draw attention to an long-standing security problem in Apple's Mac OS X operating system, a security researcher has posted attack code that exploits the flaw.
Web standards on the edge
Feb. 24, 2009
Although there are many reasons why the Web fails to render appropriately in browsers, the two main reasons today are browser bugs and ambiguities in the standards, says Ian Hickson, a software engineer at Google and ...
When good browsers go bad - and they all do
Feb. 24, 2009
Jeffrey Zeldman must have thought he'd never live to see the day. Ten years after he co-founded the Web Standards Project , all of the major browser vendors have shown renewed commitment to supporting World Wide Web ...
Disk-drive encryption gets boost from Opal standards effort
Jan. 29, 2009
The Opal industry-standards effort unveiled this week by the Trusted Computing Group should prove a boon to information technology professionals exploring desktop encryption options.
Hiring Software Developers: The Agile Aptitude Test
Jan. 27, 2009
The Agile development model has spawned hundreds of books and dozens of conferences. There's a significant track record of successful companies moving to Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), and other lightweight, highly ...
Microsoft contributes code to Apache SOA project
Jan. 21, 2009
Microsoft is contributing code to an Apache open-source SOA project, continuing the company's softening of its attitude toward open-source software and the community that supports it.
U.S. likely to maintain 'yes' vote for OOXML in ISO
Mar. 10, 2008
An esoteric-but-key technical committee will recommend that the U.S. maintain its support for making Microsoft Corp.'s Office Open XML document format an ISO-certified open standard, despite controversy at a meeting ...
India rejects Office Open XML again
Mar. 21, 2008
A technical committee in India has rejected Microsoft's Office Open XML file format as a standard.
BEA warms to ColdFusion users
Apr. 17, 2006
BEA Systems hopes to lure users of ColdFusion applications to BEA's WebLogic Server platform by licensing New Atlanta's BlueDragon software.
Fleury: JBoss to scale its business
Apr. 12, 2006
Look for JBoss to scale its business now that it has the backing of Red Hat, JBoss Chairman and CEO Marc Fleury said on Wednesday.
SPML 2.0 ratified as a standard for managing user access
Apr. 11, 2006
In a move that could open the door to more user account provisioning in the enterprise, the OASIS consortium approved the SPML (Service Provisioning Markup Language) version 2.0 specification as an official OASIS ...
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