Technology Development

SAP is sprucing up its NetWeaver portal with an upcoming add-on, Enterprise Workspaces, which will provide an iGoogle-like way for users to work with content.

Yahoo is building a centralized software infrastructure across all its media products, to make development and global updates more efficient, an executive said on Saturday.

Now that SAP's roughly US$6 billion acquisition of Sybase has gained clearance from European regulators, it may not be long before the deal is finalized. With that in mind, users and partners of the companies have much to consider during the next few months, analysts say.

The recurrent technical problems that have affected Twitter for the past seven weeks have also taken a toll on developers of external applications built for the microblogging service.

Oracle may be Java's new proprietor, but SpringSource, Apache, and Eclipse are driving the development agenda too.

The new tools allow developers to turn off individual extensions and navigate code files

If you want to watch Internet-delivered video on your PC, the vast majority of Web sites have settled on a single, consistent way to do that. That's the good news. The bad news is that this single, consistent delivery system is Adobe Flash, with all its security and stability issues.

Looking deeper within malware yields fingerprints of the hackers who write the code, and that could result in signatures that have a longer lifetime than current intrusion-detection schemes, says one Black Hat 2010 speaker.

Spanish open source venture provides tools and documentation for PHP developers who want to create Android apps

Imagine if you could learn to fly a helicopter by downloading software directly to your brain. Imagine if your eyes could see an object, overlaid with data, miles away in the dark. These science-fiction scenes from The Matrix and Terminator movies may be less fictional in the future, thanks to the fascinating science behind medical implants.

Anyone who has followed software development tools during the last decade knows that the term "Java" refers to a pair of technologies: the Java programming language and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The Java language is compiled into bytecodes that run on the JVM. Through this design, Java delivers its vaunted portability.

The hardest thing about artificial intelligence (AI) is keeping your imagination in check. A visit to some robotic displays at an AI conference here opens the mind to incredible possibilities.

Apps builders like touch and multi-touch capabilities but are challenged by supporting older versions of the OS.

Google's App Inventor for Android turns everyone into developers.

Microsoft plans to take a cue from rival CRM (customer relationship management) vendor Salesforce.com with the upcoming release of CRM 2011, by adding a marketplace site where partners can sell complementary applications.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer urges partners to stick with Microsoft for the new form factors

Infor on Monday will announce plans for applications running on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform, deepening the vendors' already close partnership and adding momentum to the industry's shift away from on-premises ERP (enterprise resource planning) software.

A new Intel R&D lab will focus on studying human-computer interaction 'to create the next generation of user experiences.'

The company is linking two products, including the recently acquired ScrumWorks, to create an end-to-end agile ALM platform.

JackBe is applying the app store concept to its own products for building enterprise mashups, applications that pull together data from various systems.