Even Microsoft is sometimes faced with the decision of whether to "buy or build." This time it chose to buy. With the acquisition of Opalis Software announced yesterday, Redmond in one stroke takes a...

Tired of parsing all the source code involved in building mobile apps? Or perhaps the approval process for Apple's App Store is getting you down. Or maybe you're an aspiring commercial developer in...

According to a Search Software Quality survey of 492 IT professionals, 22 percent struggle most with requirements gathering. Yet the same group said they spend less than 12 percent of their time...

What if you had access to the millions of tweets that flow to and from Twitter users every day? Perhaps you'd build something like PostRank (http://www.daniweb.com/news/story240308.html), which...

After a swirl of rumors that Apple was in talks to acquire music-streaming service Lala (http://www.lala.com/), the Wall Street Journal reported...

I would start here:

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/iPhone/Conceptual/iPhone101/Articles/00_Introduction.html

Intel has confirmed reports that it will not release its next-generation graphics processor widely known as Larrabee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_%28GPU%29) as a discreet GPU. Instead, most...

Smaller, bigger, faster. The more time that goes by, the bigger the number of bits they squeeze into smaller places for less money. And always faster than before. This time it's Samsung, with news...

This is a bit off topic, but times are tough and money is money. There's an opportunity to earn between US$10 and $20 an hour working for the U.S. Census Bureau...

Has your server's memory reached its 192GB limit? Last week a company called Netlist (http://netlist.com/) was demonstrating a new RDIMM technology that it claims can double per-CPU memory capacity...

You know you've established your brand when its name becomes a verb (for example to 'Google' something). A company called PostRank (http://www.postrank.com/) might hope the same holds true for...

With its release on Monday of the first public beta of Windows HPC Server 2008 RC2 (http://www.microsoft.com/hpc/en/us/default.aspx), Microsoft also was touting features introduced in the second beta...

While most reporters and bloggers today are trumpeting the fine showing by chip-maker AMD in the semi-annual list of the world's Top 500 Supercompting Sites (http://www.top500.org/list/2009/11/100...

Microsoft this week acquired Teamprise (http://www.teamprise.com/), a division of SourceGear (http://www.sourcegear.com/) that built tools to give developers access to Visual Studio 2008 Team...

The BlackBerry Developer Conference (http://www.blackberrydeveloperconference.com/overview) concluded yesterday, but not before Research in Motion had the chance to unveil enhancements to its...

You don't have to have lived in Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties to achieve self-awareness in San Francisco. BlackBerry developers are gathered in the city this week for the annual BlackBerry Developer...

If you're not yet among the percentage of the population people using Mozilla's Firefox browser, which by one count (http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp) stands at 47.5 percent,...

That's right, free. And if it's free, it's for me. Software promoter MacHeist is my new best friend, and for the next five days is giving away nanoBundle (http://www.macheist.com/), a package of six...

Microsoft on Tuesday is set to release six security updates, three of which it has deemed critical and apply only to versions of Windows other than Windows 7. Microsoft released advance notice of its...

GUIdancer 3.2, the latest version of flagship automated GUI testing tool from Bredex, now "officially" supports Windows 7 and Vista, and includes additional enhancements to its library of pre-built...

Firefox can finally orient itself, at least in terms of iPhones and MacBooks. Mozilla's latest browser, Firefox 3.6 beta 1 (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_3.6_for_developers), can now talk...

If you're yearning to break free from Apple-sanctioned iPhone carrier AT&T (and you don't mind trading your warranty for the privilege), then reach out and touch George Hotz. The iPhone hacker...

Are you a certified function point specialist or play one on TV? Then the Counting Practices Manual version 4.3 might be for you. Unveiled today by the International Function Point Users Group...

once you go mac, you won't wanna go back. trust your feelings. you know it to be true.

While the competition is hard at work on a 100-core processor (http://www.daniweb.com/news/story233646.html), Intel this week reported advances in phase-change memory (PCM)...

More info just in, the following new Rational versions are integrated with the latest versions of the corresponding Tivoli product:
Rational ClearQuest - 7.1.1
Rational Test Lab Manager – 2.0...

Companies using IBM's Rational and Tivoli product will breathe easier today, thanks to new, integrated versions of nine tools that the company says will facilitate communication and closer...

At the risk of coming off like TV's "Mad Men (http://www.amctv.com/originals/madmen/)," Amazon Web Services really are New and Improved. The company today announced the addition of Amazon Relational...

Thought you were bleeding edge with your quad-core PC? Think again. A company called Tilera today announced that it's working on a chip containing 100 processor cores, which it says could be seen by...

With all the coverage of last week's Windows 7 launch, it was easy to overlook news of the forthcoming release of SharePoint Server 2010, the next edition of Redmond's collaboration platform. A...

Craigslist hosts classified ads of all kinds, including lengthy lists of developer's jobs in New York (http://newyork.craigslist.org/sof/) and the San Francisco Bay area...

Keeping pace with Microsoft's latest releases, Xenocode this week unveiled Virtual Application Studio 2010, an update to its virtualization engine that supports Windows 7, simplifies app-publishing...

With the price of Windows 7 topping out at US$320, Microsoft will be handing shoppers less cash at the end of its "I'm a PC" commercials...

Trust not Microsoft, ye who yearn to be free (of defects).

One way to become the "ultimate" of something is to simply declare it. JetBrains, maker of the IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE, on Thursday began previewing IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition...

One might have titled this story "Beware of government bearing gifts." We should be exceedingly wary whenever law makers begin dabbling with something that's been working exceedingly well for...

With all the libraries available that have emerged, Java and Ajax applications practically build themselves these days. This week Java tool maker Instantiations added support for Ext GWT to GWT...

With the release of Ingres Database 9.3 (http://esd.ingres.com/) today, the company says it's now easier for developers to migrate their application to the open source system from MySQL, Oracle,SQL...

Can't decide whether to develop for Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, or Symbian? You may not have to, if the latest "write once, run anywhere" claim from Recursion Software bears fruit. The company today...

Microsoft and Palm today separately advanced web sites designed for developers to post and sell (or give away) applications for their respective mobile platforms, playing catch-up with Apple, whose...