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Less Coding, More Thinking

Developers enjoy expanding freedom to treat mobile devices as industry-standard platforms. Developers should be careful, though, not to judge mobile application tools by merely...

Adware Will Need User Consent

Starting next year, adware and software providers that want to continue placing ads on such prominent Web sites as AOL and Yahoo will have...

Pings & Packets from eWEEK Labs – 35

FEMA Finally Gets It RightHurricane season is nearly over, but the country will probably see more disastrous weather this winter. And, now, those who...

Microsoft Opens Office File Formats

Microsoft Corp. has decided to open up its Office file formats and has submitted the formats to be considered for recognition as a formal...

One Tool Wont Cut It

If I said that integrated programming environments are mixed blessings, any developer who started work in the past 15 years might look at me...

Ballmer Talks Tools

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke with eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft last week after his keynote speech during which Microsoft officially launched Visual...

IBM Unleashes Its Viper

IBM has loosed its "Viper" database upon the world, announcing on Wednesday an open beta for the next-generation, native XML/relational data version of its...

Supercomputers: Windows New Best Friend

Microsoft Corp. chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates will use his keynote address at the Supercomputing show, being held in Seattle this week,...

Oracle Chooses Solaris as Dev Platform

Oracle Corp. will announce Tuesday that it has chosen Sun Microsystems Inc.s Solaris 10 operating system as its preferred development and deployment platform for...

Microsoft Commits to Agility

Even as Microsoft Corp. launched Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk 2006 here last week—the first major releases for the products in...