At the Intel Developer Forum,  Intel announced an exciting new opportunity for developers to earn money by writing netbook applications via the Intel Atom Developer Program community, and selling their applications through future application stores.  Developers were told to look for a software development kit (SDK) to help them develop applications and components for netbooks.

Vishal Sikkia, Chief Technology Officer at SAP, has criticised the governance of Java and the domination of the Java Community Process by Sun Microsystems...

Matthias Ettrich has received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his contributions in the field of free software...

Google is providing the web development community with an intriguing glimpse under the hood at some of the fundamental building blocks of the company's most popular web applications.