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ZTE premiers Open, its first Firefox OS phone

Built around apps using HTML5, Firefox OS pitched as an alternative for low-end smartphones in developing markets

Everything you need to know about MongoDB

Five Favorite Software Development Analogies

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Google stacks PaaS play with real tech support, souped-up App Engine

Google App Engine users get more memory and Java 7 support

Oracle updates NetBeans for HTML5

The new version of the IDE features code completion for HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS to make programming for mobile and Web apps easier

Amazon’s Redshift for big data analytics — the pros and cons

The cloud-based big data analytics database service is now available in limited release; here's what you should know

Microsoft, EMC, NetApp join Oracle’s legal fight against Google on Java

The software trade group BSA has also come out in support of Oracle in a copyright and patent infringement lawsuit over Android

Oracle releases new Java fixes, speeds up patching cycle

Oracle patches five more Java vulnerabilities that weren't fixed in a security update earlier in February