Koders CEO Darren Rush on the Next Step for Code Search Well before search titan Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) released its tool to help developers scour the Web for code and connected information, Koders was serving up software search results, starting with open source software and now spreading out to include closed code repositories as well.

Vodafone Shares Stumble on India Expansion Reports "There's a massive opportunity for [mobile] operators in India. Vodafone is already in the market, so why wouldn't they be looking at Hutchison Essar?" commented Robert Grindle at Dresdner Kleinwort.

Mac Software Takes New Direction There has been a recent shift in consumer and business response to the Macintosh platform. The old thinking, largely fostered by the PC industry, was that although Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) platform might be better for some tasks, Mac users were constrained by a limited choice of software.

Opera to Provide Browser for Samsung Handsets Opera Software on Thursday announced a deal with Samsung Electronics to deliver Opera Mobile on Samsung mobile handsets -- two days after it launched a browser for Nintendo's Wii gaming console.

Biggest Telecom Surprises of 2006, Part 1 After several disappointing years, the telecom market experienced renewed growth in 2006, and a number of surprising developments occurred. The highlights include the integration of cellular and WiFi features, a rush to deliver mobile music services, movement toward

Google announced that the code search tool is now available for public use. Google Code Search digs through open-source code repositories on the internet, compiling the large amount of source code available on the web into an easily searchable database. The tool allows Web surfers to find code that matches certain regular expressions, and searches can be limited to certain file types and licenses. The security implications of Google's Code Search resemble those raised by its original Web search engine. Google hacking - the term for using Google queries to search for vulnerabilities in Web sites - is a popular way to find servers with specific flaws.

Endeca has updated its analytical search software, claiming that the new version is even better at discovering the relationships in both structured and unstructured data. The Endeca Information Access Platform (IAP) is a cross between a search engine and business intelligence (BI) software, according to Jeff Boehm, the company's BI strategy director.

Sun Microsystems Inc. announced the availability of source code for NetBeans Mobility Pack and NetBeans Mobility Pack for CDC (Connected Device Configuration), which will be released under the OSI-compliant Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL). Java ME development tools represent in mobile Java development and providing visual authoring features that can simplify and speed the creation of applications for the vast majority of mobile devices. Developers, tool vendors, mobile operators and device manufacturers can get involved in the open source project immediately by logging on to this

Wind River Systems has announced the release of Wind River VxWorks 6.2 platform that scales to power a full range of devices, from the smallest handhelds to the most robust network equipment.

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Open Sourcing the JDK.There is now a timescale in place for the Standard Edition of Java, Java SE, to go open source by year end.Sun Microsystems is working with the Harmony and GNU Projects to build a greater Java SE community, and has already launched a portal as a community resource.
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Mozilla delays the Firefox 2.0 release. The Mozilla Foundation has postponed the release of Firefox 2.0 until 24 October. Here is link for Mozilla developer calender in Google.

Apache Tops in webserver market !
Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996. The November 2005 Netcraft Web Server Survey found that more than 70% of the web sites on the Internet are using Apache, thus making it more widely used than all other web servers combined.
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Eclipse is the most popular and widely used IDE among the Java developers. According to a December 2005 survey by BZ Research, 65 per cent of Java developers make some use of Eclipse, and the number will be higher if you include IBM's Eclipse-based IDE WebSphere Studio.Eclipse is built on SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit) which is crossplatform and easily portable like a java swing application. But Sun is not yet recoganised the SWT of Eclipse.

elata, a global leader in mobile content delivery and device management software solutions, has today announced that it is partnering with Vignette, a leading provider of information management and delivery solutions, to provide mobile operators with a tailored platform to efficiently deliver and manage a variety of content object types and device standards.
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The QA Systems has carried out a survey among more than 1400 developers, software architects and sofware managers world wide. According to the data Eclipse from Eclipse.org is currently the Java IDE with the largest market share of 45%, followed by Borland JBuilder with 16% and IDEA IntelliJ with 10%.
Source : QA Systems