Development

Beta releases will be offered for Flash Builder 4, formerly called Flex Builder, and the Flash Catalyst 1.0 UI development tool, which analysts view as taking a cue from Microsoft's Expression tools line

A report from Info-Tech Research Group Ltd. finds a growing number of enterprises making real progress with SOA initiatives. SOA can't be termed a project, and organizations should leave buying the software till later

At FITC 2009 in Toronto, a panel of Web designers noted that while Flash has gained great notoriety as an enabler of immersive user experience, some companies have not been so quick to adopt it

Black Duck Software Inc. estimates there are 200,000 open source projects representing more than 4.9 billion lines of code that application developers could make better use of. The challenges of seeking and incorporating open source components into a development cycle

Safari 4 enters the Web browser market at its most crowded period in years, with big names like Google Inc.

Microsoft Corp. revealed the beta version of Silverlight 3.0 and previewed Expression Blend 3 at its MIX09 conference in Las Vegas. Rich-Internet Applications from Canadian customers CTV, Workopolis.com, and Innovapost

CERN marks the World Wide Web's 20th anniversary

New risk management tools anticipated as complex event processing (CEP) firm Aleri unites with top competitor Coral8