Developers

Science fiction enthusiasts could probably connect over plans Microsoft announced Monday for Kinect, the company's interactive gaming add-on for the Xbox 360. A software developers kit is on the way, Microsoft representatives told journalists at a sneak-peek event that featured a Kinect digital ren...

It's not hard to guess that PLM relies on some core processes to provide a unified picture of several products and its versions for decision makers and knowledge workers. Innovators, designers, manufacturers, marketers, service providers all are required to be on the same page. IT is vital to addr...

Ever hunting for a better digital vaccine, HP's TippingPoint DVLabs announced a partnership with Google that has the scions of search cosponsoring a hacking contest at the CanSecWest security conference in March. "This is a part of the 4th annual Pwn2Own contest," said Google spokesperson Eitan Benc...

Several new and ongoing phenomenons, all intertwined, will mark the next phase of application development. There will likely be more emphasis on mobile apps. Tablets, particularly the iPad, are already cannibalizing netbook sales, and as mobile devices get multicore processors with more power and ca...

IT service companies rely heavily on software engineering processes and methods to deliver services that enable business to achieve their goals. As a discipline, product lifecycle management has matured and has delivered major benefits, such as reuse, increased market share, reduced time-to-market a...

Facebook dropped a privacy bombshell on an unsuspecting user base before the start of the holiday weekend: Going forward, it will make a user's address and mobile phone number accessible as part of the User Graph object. That means that users' addresses and mobile numbers are now available to third ...

Microsoft on Thursday released WebMatrix, a free Web development tool that it claims lets website developers of all skill levels create, customize and publish websites to the Internet easily. It also announced an ecosystem of 40 open source application partners around WebMatrix. This is a revival of...

Microsoft launched an HTML5 laboratory for developers on Tuesday. The company intends the project to be a site where Redmond prototypes early and unstable Web standard specs from standards bodies such as the W3C and shares them with the developer community. One reason for establishing the lab could ...

Scaling a website up to the size of a Twitter or a Facebook brings its own set of problems. These problems aren't always like those that crop up in moderately large sites -- they're unique to these massive, hyperscale systems. That's partly because IT administrators and managers have to rely on new ...

RockMelt has unveiled the public beta of its new Web browser featuring built-in social network sharing. Named after the company, the browser is built on Google Chromium. Its integration with Facebook is so tight that users must log into that social networking site first in order to use the browser.

SCVNGR, a Boston-based company that offers a mobile real-world game of the same name, announced on Tuesday that it's going global. SCVNGR's a social game based on geo-location that lets players link up with friends on Facebook and Twitter. The game's simple -- players check in to different spots, su...

It was pretty much all about the cloud at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference, held last week at its Redmond, Wash., corporate campus. CEO Steve Ballmer and other executives spoke about how the software giant's latest developments span the PC, the mobile phone and the cloud. They also hig...

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