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• CollabNet buys cloud-based SCM

  CollabNet is announcing on Tuesday its acquisition of Codesion, which has provided a cloud-based version of the Subversion open source software configuration management system founded by CollabNet.

• Sonatype enhancing cloud-based software repository

  Sonatype is enhancing its Maven Central cloud-based software component repository in the areas of performance, availability, and security.

• VMware to offer cloud development environment

  VMware plans to offer a hosted development environment that should ease the deployment of applications to cloud environments, the company announced Tuesday.

• New Adobe Reader sandboxed, simplified

  Adobe has released the new version of its Reader PDF viewing software, and with it comes a number of changes: a new Roman-based numbering scheme ("Adobe Reader X"), tightened security and, for the browser version, a substantially reduced user interface. Adobe's flagship PDF creation software, Adobe Acrobat, has been upgraded as well.

• Microsoft patches Visual Studio menu problem

  Microsoft is offering patches to fix a pesky problem with context menus in the Visual Studio 2010 IDE, company officials said this week.

• Google improves App Engine SDK

  Google on Thursday began offering an offering an upgrade to its Google App Engine SDK with features for improved performance, monitoring, and maintenance.

• MeeGo team to woo developers with upcoming release

  The MeeGo project is getting ready to release version 1.1 of the operating system, which should allow developers to start working on applications for smartphones, according to a Wednesday blog post.

• Twitter solves its data formatting challenge

  Eschewing popular choices such as XML, CSV and JSON, Twitter has opted to format the back-end storage of its user and systems data with a relatively unknown format pioneered by Google, called Protocol Buffers.

• VMware aims to give IT more control over SaaS apps

  VMware is working on products that will give enterprises more control over Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, including how users are authenticated, company CTO Steve Herrod, said in an interview on Tuesday.

• iRise adds reusable components to app visualization

  iRise is adding reusable components to its platform for visualizing applications before coding.

• Oracle, IBM hold hands on Java

  Oracle and IBM, who are usually bitter rivals, pledged on Monday to collaborate on OpenJDK, which has served as the principal reference implementation of open source Java.

• Yahoo lays out road map for BOSS

  Yahoo's BOSS platform, which lets external developers build custom search engines on top of the company's search infrastructure, will shift to a fee-based model in early 2011.

• Microsoft launches open source .Net package manager

  Microsoft began offering on Wednesday an early version of NuPack, an open source package manager for its .Net software development platform.

• Automated testing software released for smartphone platforms

  A new software program lets mobile software developers create and run sophisticated tests to troubleshoot and refine enterprise smartphone applications.

• Zoho upgrades Creator app builder tool

  Zoho's Creator application builder tool is gaining the ability to schedule automated tasks and to generate reports, the company announced Wednesday.