Bucking the trend of increasingly experimental desktop interfaces, the developers behind the Linux Mint are adopting a simpler desktop for the next version of the open-source Linux distribution.
In an aggressive move, MySpace will open its users' public activity stream data to external developers, so that third-party applications and Web sites are able to display these status updates and action notifications.
Microsoft will start allowing developers to preview Windows 8 Embedded in the first quarter of next year, with plans to eventually release its embedded computing products in the quarters following the Windows 8 desktop version launch.
LinkedIn today opened a set of APIs to software developers who want to build apps to interact with the social networking service. With this move, LinkedIn jumps into a growing battle between Google, Facebook and others that want to be the center of your everyday social media experience.
Spotify on Wednesday launched a development platform designed to let third parties create applications that integrate with its popular digital music-streaming service.
Microsoft shocks PDC attendees by giving them a free tablet PC, but for Microsoft the gift arms a horde of developers with the tools to explore Windows 7's advanced features and expose the possibilities they promise.
Microsoft is introducing a directory technology built on a database and designed around a new API that provides developers with a single model for building claims-based access controls into applications that run in the cloud, internally or on devices.
A Waltham, Mass.-based provider of tools for accelerating the use of open source in software development estimates conservatively that 10 per cent of development spending is redundant given the open source code already available.
Novell has released a Mono-based plug-in for Visual Studio that gives developers a debugger to help them use Windows to design applications that will run on Linux..
Company working with Tasktop and Soyatec on multiple initiatives to boost interoperability between its products and open source technologies like Eclipse and Java
I'm always partial to products that come out of small companies and independent developers. After all, Dell and Facebook started in dorm rooms, and giant companies like, Microsoft, HP and Apple launched as shoe-string operations It is, you might say, the Silicon Valley way, even if some of those outfits were born outside of California. So it's good to see a worthy competitor to Apple's Safari mobile browser come out of the software shop of Ang Quang Do, an independent developer based in London.
Apple has announced that its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2011) will be held June 6-10 in San Francisco, and promises to unveil the future of the iOS software used in its iPad and iPhone as well as the Mac OS X software at the heart of its computers.
EBay is moving ahead with a project to let third-party developers build applications on top of Selling Manager, eBay's tools used by thousands of merchants to manage their businesses on its Web site.
As more organizations deploy Hadoop to analyze vast reams of information, they may find they need to transfer large amounts of data between Hadoop and their existing databases, data warehouses and other data stores. Now the volunteer developers behind a new connector designed to speed this data exchange have gotten the full support from the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).
More than a dozen tickets to Apple's sold-out Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2011) are now being offered on eBay and Craigslist, with asking prices more than doubling the $1,600 face value.
One year after the Windows Phone 7 developer tools were released, Microsoft cites numbers to show the popularity of the OS with developers. But the numbers are selective and hint at a more complex picture than boosters try to paint.
Adobe's decision to give Flash developers a way to craft iPhone apps is an "end-around" Apple's decision to ban Flash Player from its popular smartphone, an analyst said today.
Microsoft may charge developers if they submit within a year more than five applications or application updates to the Windows Mobile Marketplace, a move that has some developers concerned that the store won't be able to compete with the iPhone App Store or the Android Market.