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Novell announced the release of Mono Tools for Visual Studio, a set of tools designed to facilitate the development of .NET software for Linux, Unix and Mac OS X within Microsoft Visual Studio.

Microsoft announced that it will be purchasing the Teamprise technology and other assets from SourceGear to deliver cross-platform support for Visual Studio.

Many of the Web’s busiest and most popular Websites, including Facebook and Twitter, have one thing in common that enables the sites to scale out to millions of users without a significant impact on performance: Memcached. Gear6 hopes its distribution of Memcached takes off for enterprise developers. Mark Atwood, Gear6’s new Director of Community Development, talks to eWEEK about capitalizing on the open source technology.

Hosting company NaviSite is looking to give businesses an alternatives to public cloud offerings such as Amazon’s EC2. Leverage new tech-nologies from Cisco, VMware, IBM and Intel, NaviSite is offering an enterprise-level cloud computing platform that is highly scalable and usage-based. It also runs over three of its data centers, giving NaviCloud users built-in disaster recovery.

Yahoo is betting big on its Yahoo Connected TV platform, and the company is looking for developers to help advance the platform. Yahoo is counting on developers to build new TV Widgets using the Yahoo Widget Development Kit (WDK). The company touted its Internet TV strategy to developers at its Open Hack Day event in New York.

Yahoo took its developer story to Broadway by hosting its Open Hack Day at the Hudson Theatre in New York City's historic theater district in Times Square. At the event, Yahoo pitched developers on the value of its broad consumer platform as a vehicle for developers to distribute and promote applications and build an audience.

Microsoft delivers a Bing iPhone and Mac software development kit and makes the SDK available for download on the Microsoft CodePlex community development site.

Apple is reportedly blaming customers for exploding iPhones in France, claiming "external force" is causing the crackups. French iPhone owners are less than satisfied with that conclusion.

Azul Systems has announced the release of its Azul Systems Java Virtual Machine 2.5 (AVM 2.5), a new version of its virtualized Java Virtual Machine (JVM) with support for the Windows platform.

Microsoft opens registration for its Professional Developers Conference, which will be held in Los Angeles in November. Microsoft also announces Code 7, a coding contest in which developers create Windows 7 applications to win cash and a trip to the PDC.

Microsoft opens Windows Marketplace for Mobile to application submissions from developers, marking a new stage in Microsoft's attempt to gain market share in the mobile space, already fiercely contested by Apple, Google, Research In Motion, Nokia and other companies. Windows Marketplace for Mobile will support applications for Windows Mobile 6.5, the latest version of Microsoft's smartphone operating system, as well as Windows Mobile 6.0 and Windows Mobile 6.1.

Bill Gates and a team of co-inventors have proposed an idea for killing hurricanes before they can potentially make devastating landfall. The project, for which the inventors have submitted a patent application, involves placing vessels in the path of the storm and having them pull cooler water from beneath the ocean’s surface, which theoretically would rob the hurricane of its strength.

Microsoft delivers Silverlight 3 and Expression 3, the latest versions of the company's RIA and Web development and design platform.

If you're writing an ASP.NET application in Visual Studio and need a great scheduling interface, check out the ASPxScheduler Control from DevExpress. Paul Kimmel shows you how to get started with it.

Microsoft names Steven Sinofsky, a 20-year Microsoft veteran, president of the Windows Division. The role involves overseeing the engineering and marketing for Windows, Windows Live and Internet Explorer, just ahead of the Oct. 22 rollout of Windows 7.

Microsoft will launch its Windows Marketplace for Mobile this fall with 600 applications, according to published reports.

Survey results from Constant Contact suggest small business owners are optimistic about growth in 2009 and increasingly likely to use online social media tools such as Facebook or Twitter to build their business.

Global Language Monitor, a language-monitoring group, claims that the millionth word to enter the English lexicon is "Web 2.0," an occurrence seemingly tailor-made to bring joy to technophiles and tears of rage to linguistic purists. Other linguists have taken issue with Global Language Monitor’s methods, decrying them as nonsense.

Aster Data Systems extends its functionality to allow Microsoft .NET application developers to write applications in MapReduce. With the update to the Aster nCluster product line, database developers can now write MapReduce functions in Microsoft C#.

Black Duck and Microsoft collaborate to automate the addition of open-source projects from Microsoft's CodePlex repository into Black Duck's KnowledgeBase and Koders.com.