SOFTWARE

A report from the Office of the Inspector General has found NASA is vulnerable to cyber attacks.

Father of Java James Gosling has joined Google, much to the dismay of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, even as Google and Oracle slug it out over Java patent infringement lawsuit targeting Android.

Support of iOS devices is a notable omission with Amazon's recently-announced Cloud Player

Tickets to Apple's annual Worldwide Developer's Conference sold out just as quickly as they were made available on yesterday. After the date and pricing were unveiled by the company early Monday morning, tickets sold out within 12 hours of the announcement, marking the fastest selling WWDC to date.

Amazon has launched a cloud-based music locker service called Cloud Drive, which gives the online books trader an early mover's advantage over Apple and Google.

Apple announced it will hold its annual Worldwide Developer's Conference this June in San Francisco, but tickets sold out almost immediately.

Nokia may have moved to Windows, but it is still trying to woo the developers working on its old platform, Symbian.

EBay Inc plans to buy e-commerce company GSI Commerce for $1.96 billion in cash in a bid to draw more buyers and sellers to its online marketplaces.

Apple announced it will hold its annual Worldwide Developer’s Conference this June in San Francisco.

Apple is due to delay the launch of its much awaited cloud-integrated iteration of iOS 5 which, if Apple followed its tradition, would have been launched this spring.

Facebook, the social networking giant, is seeking to hire former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs for a senior post, The New York Times reported.

Apple is reportedly delaying the launch of its next generation mobile operating system, the iOS 5, a move that could also spell a delay for its highly anticipated iPhone 5.

Google is preparing its music service and Spotify is headed across the Atlantic.

Instead of opening up the operating system to developers both large in small, Google will restrict Honeycomb to specific manufacturers and developers.

Facebook is not behind the web search box that has appeared on the pages of some of its users, the company said.

During its fourth-quarter earnings call, Research In Motion revealed that its upcoming BlackBerry Playbook tablet would be compatible with applications developed for Google's Android operating system.

Blizzard co-founder Frank Pierce said that their continued success would depend on the development of a really talented team with some of the best developers in the industry and that they were trying to see if some of it could be nurtured internally.

In a series of postings from mid to late February on 51Jobs.com (the Monster.com of China), VanceInfo Technologies Inc. (NYSE: VIT) has advertised numerous positions for onsite assignments at Yahoo China. VanceInfo is an information technology (IT) service provider and an offshore software development company in China.

A new app has hit the smartphone market aiming to allow users to take and share photos in social networks but there's a twist: the networks you create are with complete strangers.

Google Inc is delaying widespread access to the new version of its Android software, saying it has more work to do before the product is ready for certain types of devices.

Using a special API, developers would easily be able to port existing Android apps to the Playbook tablet, RIM said.