The BlackBerry 7.1 operating system (OS) is now available for download in Australia from Optus and Vodafone.

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BlackBerry 7.1 OS lands in Australia

When Android 5.0 “Jelly Bean” launches this [southern] Spring, it will appear first on several new mobile devices sold by Google itself as part of the “Nexus” line.

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Android 5.0 to launch with five Nexus devices: Report

Google on Tuesday released Chrome 19, patched 20 vulnerabilities in the browser and doled out $16,500 in bug bounties and rewards to independent researchers.

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Google releases Chrome 19, adds tab sync and patches 20 bugs

Sencha describes Sencha Architect 2, the latest incarnation of its visual Web development tool, as “a massive upgrade to Ext Designer,” the previous version. The name change from Designer to Architect reflects the product’s new focus.

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Sencha Architect: Visual HTML5, sort of

German security firm Avira yesterday issued a service pack for its antivirus software that crippled an unknown number of Windows machines, with one customer calling the gaffe “catastrophic” to his company.

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Avira antivirus upgrade wreaks ‘catastrophic’ havoc on Windows PCs

NetSuite is going up against vendors such as Demandware in the market for cloud-based e-commerce platforms, announcing a new product, SuiteCommerce, during the SuiteWorld conference in San Francisco on Tuesday.

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NetSuite rolls out commerce-as-a-service platform

The Salvation Army has today officially launched its new game, Damien’s Dash.

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Salvos launch new game

Microsoft today declined to comment when asked whether it believed it’s required to offer a ballot screen in Windows 8 to European users for selecting rival browsers in the new operating system’s desktop mode.

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EU-Microsoft browser deal requires ballot screen in Windows 8

Dell and IBM on Monday announced servers with Intel’s latest Xeon server chips, which will bring faster throughput and memory allowing servers to take on more complex workloads while reducing data center costs.

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Dell, IBM announce servers with new Intel Xeon chips

Despite the gold-rush atmosphere around mobile application development, you won’t find many newbie-friendly tools aligned to help nonprogrammers mine for application riches. Even if the target platforms often seem like toys, most of the development kits are still developer-minded and code-centric, and they can present formidable hurdles to the uninitiated.

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Review: AppMobi XDK brings more style than substance to iPhone, Android development