A wide-ranging flock of Python IDEs offer great options for Windows scripting, GUI applications, Web frameworks, multilanguage development, and more

Craigslist pulled its adult services listings on Friday. Users now see a black bar with the word "censored" where the listings previously appeared.

The World Wide Consortium is investigating integrating speech capabilities into Web standard

Gibbs just got an invite to Google's App Inventor and he's impressed with what is an early beta

Spring Framework founder Rod Johnson says fragmentation probably won't happen, though Oracle's behavior isn't helping

Oracle is hoping to entice a younger generation of Java programmers into its fold by offering students complimentary admission to the upcoming JavaOne and Oracle Develop conferences.

The new ActiveState Python distribution includes modules for GUI design and interacting with databases

Parallel Studio 2011 backs Visual Studio 2010 and adds a component to walk developers through the process of introducing parallelism

Alcatel-Lucent has acquired OpenPlug, the creator of ELIPS Studio, a tool that allows developers to write an application once and then translate it into native code that can run on iPhones and Android-based smartphones.

Open source Web framework upgrade includes Merb performance boosts as well as cross-site scripting protection