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Google recently adopted an accelerated release cycle for its Chrome browser, pushing out a new stable release every six weeks. Google Chrome 7.0.517.41 for Windows, Mac, and Linux introduces the majority of Chrome users to features that have been available to beta and developer’s build users for several months, as well as fixing hundreds of [...]

Google in the coming months will begin taking a cut from sales on its Apps Marketplace, where external developers currently pocket all revenue from sales of their applications. Google, which launched the Apps Marketplace about six months ago, has said all along that it intends to charge developers a 20 percent commission. However, the billing [...]

Mozilla, which launched the latest beta of Firefox 4 last week, has started to drop features from the still-under-construction browser. Firefox 4 Beta 5, which shipped Sept. 7, included support for a new audio API (application programming interface) that allows developers to tap raw audio data from within the browser, as well as support for [...]

BitTorrent has launched the release candidate for Mainline 7.1. And with it, the company has launched several applications and has enabled developers to create their own programs for the platform. According to BitTorrent, Mainline 7.1 will include 11 apps at launch, including Virus Guard, a service that helps keep users safe from malicious files, as [...]

The latest version of the SDK (Software Development Kit) for Google’s cloud platform App Engine comes with multitenancy capability, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday. Google App Engine allows developers to build and host cloud-based applications on the same systems that power Google’s own applications. [ Keep up with software development issues [...]

Microsoft said it is investigating an unpatched vulnerability in Windows after an Israeli researcher revealed a bug in the operating system’s kernel driver. According to Gil Dabah, a researcher from Tel Aviv who goes by the nickname “arkon,” the Windows’ kernel harbors a heap overflow vulnerability. Dabah also posted a short proof-of-concept to demonstrate the [...]

Facebook has acquired a travel recommendation start-up called NextStop–but as has been the pattern with the massive social network’s history of small purchases, it will be shutting the NextStop product down. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “We’ll be joining Facebook and…Facebook has bought most of our assets,” a message on NextStop’s home page [...]

A cadre of enterprise content management (ECM) software vendors is close to finalizing a standard for sharing data across their systems. Next week, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, (OASIS), is expected to ratify the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS), a set of bindings that would allow different content management systems to [...]

Apple and Mozilla last week took a page from Google to beef up the stability of their respective browsers, Safari and Firefox. Apple’s move may also result in a faster future Safari that’s able to use the multiple cores in most modern machines’ processors, an analyst said. [ Discover what's new in business applications with [...]

With the latest version of its Tuxedo OLTP (online transaction processing) middleware, Oracle is hoping to lure IBM mainframe users over to the world of x86-based distributed computing, namely by promising that their applications will run just as quickly and will not need to be rewritten for the new environment. Tuxedo 11G, the version of [...]