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Sybase IQ 15 incorporates text analytics capabilities with its handling of large objects, specialized indexing for locating and scoring terms and phrases.

Microsoft says it hope that the Kinect motion sensing input device will now garner interest from academic researchers with an interest in human motion tracking.

Virtualization: A Manager's Guide presents a considered overview of how managers might first approach the use of virtualisation techniques across corporate network operations.

Guest post from Keith Hughes, senior consultant at SQS Software Quality Systems - who writes on methods to help with the code errors posts

Working professionals in all fields will increasingly be seen using tablet PCs, toughbooks and other mobile devices to perform customer-centric tasks.

Today is world IPv6 day, as the Internet of Things approaches with a new more widely connected world of devices

What will Apple's new developer APIs really mean for the next generation of Mac applications?

Microsoft's latest big scale developer convention will be called BUILD on September 13-16, 2011 in Anaheim, CA and registration is already open.

Is the rise of cloud computing leading us into a situation where software developers do not have the required skills to serve the industry?

Data-centric newlyweds SAP and Sybase have announced a series of new device agnostic mobile apps.

Rackspace has opened up its new managed support option to its UK cloud service.

IBM's Institute for Advanced Security is designed to connect public and private sector organisations either using cloud application or considering the transition.

Vodafone runs developer start up competition to attempt to uncover mobile app innovation

Developing applications for the new target markets in the SMB space takes a special approach that reflects user usage patterns at large.

IBM BlueWorks Live is the company's latest iteration of its BPM offering

Apple's new Lion operating system functions are starting to emerge

Serena's approach to "orchestrated" software application lifecycle management plays an interesting multi-channel tune - but has the company got it right?

Yahoo! open hack day Europe 2011 is held in in Bucharest Romania

Yahoo!'s Romania open hack day is staged this weekend in Bucharest. The Yahoo! Developer Network is also helping charity Kids on Computers.

Augmented Reality news and speech recognition and voice enabled technologies are coming to the fore

When network infrastructures are upgraded to 10 GbE, these upgrades can be neutralised by firewalls that are unable to handle high bandwidth requirements or connectivity.

Norwegian web browser developer Opera is this week unveiling its Dragonfly web developer toolkit.

Adobe's Creative Suite 5.5 product -- the product advancements in HTML5 and Flash authoring are said to enable designers and developers to create compelling content and applications.

A vibrant ecosystem of software application development activity is bubbling in the UAE, with the country's programmer community focused especially closely on mobile apps in both English and Arabic ...

IBM has put in an appearance at London's InfoSec event with what it calls the longest track record in IT security of any company around

Gartner is hosting an application architecture, development & integration summit 2011 in London on June 16 this year.

The Infosecurity Europe exhibition from an software application development perspective

Cloud computing is not a product, so can't be costed as a market in terms of solid figures says analyst

Three different options for managing and configuring cloud applications

The first developer platform preview of Internet Explorer 10 from Microsoft's annual web designer and developer conference, which is taking place in Las Vegas this week. The company is already keen ...

Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 launches, but Adobe never explains HOW it does what it does

Slopping coding techniques can lead to SQL injection attacks into applications, but there are ways of avoiding these issues

Legacy applications should be thought of as LONGEVITY applications

June 2011 sees three cloud conferences held around the world, but how much real world implementation news can we read?

The term legacy applications is in some senses a misnomer - it is, after all, simply software that still works

Service director at analyst house Quocirca Clive Longbottom points out that cloud computing is not necessarily a "new" technology per se.

Some advice on web development from an infrastructural point of view from web traffic management specialist Zeus Technology

A brief technical overview of memory leak occurrences with some useful developer advice

BlackBerry Messenger platform opens up its APIs to developers

AVG releases ANTIVIRUSFree for Android - the fastest growing operating system in the world

Windows Azure has absolutely no provision for third-party licensing and billing. Adding in additional components to cloud solutions will be hard work.

How does the so-called software supply chain differ from Application Lifecycle Management

The complexity of software development and its many layers can almost be likened to a patchwork quilt pattern

IBM has refreshed its software portal with a strong social media presence

Adobe's AIR and Adobe Flash Player Incubator section is an area where Adobe will preview emerging technologies within the Flash platform

Google is running the 'Last Call for Google I/O' competition is a series of 10 developer challenges that will provide tickets to 100 winners.

Cast has announced plans for a mobile application assessment program to validate a developer's ability to create structurally sound application software for mobile devices.

Adobe Labs hosts new Wallaby technology for Flash to HTML 5 conversion

Thoughts on what makes a good webinar for software application development discussion

A new Enterprise Mobility Guide 2011 from Sybase with contributors from throughout the industry

A description of programmer's stack overflow challenges and how it can lead to vulnerabilities in code development

Intel's Thunderbolt is a new high-speed PC connection technology that runs at 10Gbps supporting both data and display on a single cable

Apple's next operating system OS X Lion has just reached the developer preview stage

Adobe talks about cross platform application development issues for developers in an increasingly fragmented market

Defining defects - defect density is a ration of the ratio of number of defects in relation to the size of the software program

Application migration issues caused by Windows 7 SP1 and Server 2008 R2 SP1 - due for public launch on the 22nd February 2011.

Bridgewater Systems' show floor survey reveal 87% of mobile operators ranked 4G transformation and /or policy control as key solution approaches to solving mobile data network congestion.

Remote mobile diagnostics from LogMeIn now compliant with Android devices

I have just arrived in the maelstrom of communications that is Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona. This will not be a technical blog - those details will come tomorrow and for the next 72 ...

IBM talks data analytics in sports "as a business" to work towards improved athlete performance

IBM Software Group's GM for application & integration middleware Marie Wieck talks strategy

Looking at the forthcoming launch of Internet Explorer 9, Paul Schnell of App-DNA asks, is your enterprise web application ready and set to go in terms of browser compatibility?

Microsoft App-V virtualisation projects up to 50% faster with App-DNA AppTitude application compatibility software platform.

Sybase, Intel, Serena, Oracle & Adobe all go public with autumn-period developer convention dates in September and October 2011

Evans Data Corporation schedules its developer relations conference with an impressive group of keynote speakers.

Sage Labs has launched a new online portal designed to help its developer community build add-ons and extensions for its mid market software.

New rapid application development controls for Windows Phone 7 from Telerik

Online betting website bet365 is a UK dot com start up success & is using its own for of complex event processing to enable live In-Play gambling

Astraware takes Sudoko "mobile" edition to the desktop - reverse procedure for most common application migration scenarios

An examination of software application programming and code deadlocks from Alex Guryeva of SQS (Software Quality Systems)

Native data access solutions company Devart has recently released new versions of its CodeCompare toolset.

Nolio's new ASAP 3.1 software automation platform is designed to address the problem of human error among IT operations teams during maintenance

Designing User Interfaces: a new book from O'Reilly Media

Intel launches a new application monetisation partnership

Windows Phone 7 Development for Android Developers - the similarities and the differences are discussed

The many roles, names and face of the modern software developer

Sybase releases a survey pointing to the importance of mobile enterprise application adoption in 2011

Adobe's Technical Communication Suite 3 is the latest version of the company's tool for creating standards-compliant technical information and training material.

What impact will Windows Phone 7 have on the developer landscape

Apple this week announced that its Mac App Store is now open for business with more than 1,000 free and paid for apps. Developers everywhere will no doubt be interested in gaining an audience in ...

IBM and Intel comment of how the IT market changes over 5 year periods in large inflexion point shifts

Microsoft has released Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools in a direct effort to try and "double the developer audience for Windows Phone 7

Did we see too many IT acronyms in 2010

Microsoft HTML5 Lab is launched for IE9 focused developers

Guest post on the importance of software integrity by Rutul Dave of Coverity

Micro Focus will launch new Visual COBOL in 2011 and says that the product has much relevance for modern programming

Parallels has dried off the ink on its free Cloud Service Provider Blueprint and "complimentary" whitepaper

Microsoft used its PDC developer conference to announce enhancements to its Windows Azure cloud services operating system

Microsoft has unveiled some developer-focused enhancements to its total Windows Phone 7 offering

IOVOX presents its voice-enabled websites proposition

Cast Software launches Application Intelligence Platform (AIP) v7.0

Runtime Revolution Ltd. releases the LiveCode compile-free deployment pack for the iOS operating system platform.

Microsoft eyes business app market with Silverlight 5 application framework for rich Internet applications (RIAs).

HP Software Universe 2010 - ComTrade was one of the companies that made the most of its own news stream opportunities

HP Software chief makes some broad comments in terms of where his company's software unit and technology is positioned

HP Software Universe event this week focuses heavily on services for enterprises

HP Software Universe 2010 kicks off in Barcelona

Windows Phone 7 marketing activity kicks up a gear and aims to engage higher levels of developer interest

IBM provides some rationale for the way it has developed Cognos 10

With 35.5 million tablet sales predicted for 2011, there is a huge opportunity for software developers