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Microsoft, which has witnessed competitors like Apple and Google grab the spotlight in the mobile phone space, acknowledged Thursday that it is willing to co-fund software development projects for its Windows Phone 7 platform. This tactic, however, is not new to Microsoft, according to a statement from the company. But a company representative said Microsoft [...]

Making a critical move in mobile application development, Microsoft on Monday shipped a beta version of its Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools, but early reaction from some developers was tepid. The beta release is “a big milestone for everyone involved in Windows Phone 7 — inside and outside of Microsoft — and we hope you [...]

Linking agile application lifecycle and project management disciplines, CollabNet is releasing on Thursday ScrumWorks Pro 4.4, a project and program management product that is integrated with the company’s TeamForge ALM platform. The combination provides an end-to-end agile ALM platform for distributed software development, CollabNet said. Scrum is a method of agile development that leverages iterative, incremental [...]

MeeGo, a Linux Foundation effort to provide a mobile version of Linux, moves on Wednesday to “Day 1″ of the MeeGo Handset User Experience project, with developers able to access handset baseline source code and leverage touch capabilities, MeeGo representatives said. The code is primarily intended for platform developers, handset vendors, and operators. Accessible at [...]

Yahoo, which has championed the open source Apache Hadoop distributed computing platform, is adding capabilities for Kerberos security and workflow management to the platform. The company on Tuesday will unveil the open source additions at the Yahoo-sponsored Hadoop Summit 2010 conference in Santa Clara, Calif. and donate them to the Apache Software Foundation. [ InfoWorld's [...]

After applications recently started disappearing from the Android Market, Google continued to have reliability issues with the online store as developers over the weekend experienced issues with erroneous download counts. On Saturday, a number of developers started complaining about incorrect download counts on Android Market. The total number of downloads for their respective applications had [...]

Engine Yard will extend on Thursday its services for cloud-based services for Ruby on Rails applications, giving users the option to deploy on Terremark infrastructure. The company’s xCloud service enables deployments of Rails applications onto Teramark. Engine Yard already has offered Rails application hosting on the Amazon cloud via the Engine Yard AppCloud service. [ [...]

ThoughtWorks unveiled this week an online community focused on exchange of ideas and best practices related to agile software development. Called “Agile Transitions,” the community is intended for discussion of executive- and business-level issues pertaining to “agile IT,” according to ThoughtWorks, which sells products for agile application lifecycle management. [ Earlier this year, InfoWorld's Paul [...]

Microsoft this week offered a release candidate  of its Windows Server AppFabric technology for caching of Web applications. A general release is planned for next month. The company also made available a beta release of BizTalk Server 2010, which supports Windows Server AppFabric. BizTalk Server 2010 is due to be released to manufacturing — which [...]

Microsoft Thursday detailed two key pieces of its strategy for helping developers build applications for the Web and private cloud networks, with a heavy focus on using existing components to build composite applications and services. Microsoft unveiled the Windows Server AppFabric release candidate, saying final availability will occur in June, while also announcing the first [...]