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Article | 2/02/2011 Yahoo drops its own Hadoop distribution

Yahoo is discontinuing its distribution of the Hadoop platform and will instead focus on Apache Hadoop, the Hadoop Team at Yahoo said this week.

Article | 28/01/2011 NetBeans IDE drops Ruby on Rails backing

Citing low usage trends and a priority on Java, builders of the NetBeans IDE have killed off Ruby on Rails support in a planned upgrade, the NetBeans ...

Article | 27/01/2011 Demandbase enhances Web site visit customization

Demandbase unveiled on Wednesday a capability to integrate CRM with Web sites, with the intention to improve the user experience for target accounts b...

Article | 27/01/2011 Microsoft offers developers access to Technical Computing projects

Expanding on its Technical Computing initiative, Microsoft is launching on Wednesday TC Labs, a resource for developers to access early releases of Te...

Article | 24/01/2011 NetBeans 7.0 IDE due this spring

Version 7. 0 of the NetBeans open source IDE is due in April, featuring capabilities for Java SE 7, as well as faster deployment to the WebLogic Serve...

Article | 21/01/2011 Micro Focus extends Cobol to Java and the cloud

Micro Focus on Thursday announced it is extending its Cobol platform to Java and the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud platform, with the launch of Micro ...

Article | 19/01/2011 Khronos upgrades standard audio and multimedia APIs

Khronos Group released on Tuesday upgrades to its OpenSL ES specification for high-performance, low-latency audio and its OpenMax AL specification for...

Article | 19/01/2011 Microsoft adds to security tools for developers

Microsoft is expanding its roster of SDL (security development lifecycle) tools and services with the beta release of an attack surface analyzer tool ...

Article | 15/01/2011 Microsoft offers Web server for developers

Microsoft began shipping this week IIS (Internet Information Services) Express 7.5, a free version of its IIS Web server optimized for developers. Th...

Article | 13/01/2011 Microsoft set to offer Web dev tools

Making multiple moves in the Web development space, Microsoft is introducing this week both a website building tool for neophytes and the third major ...

Article | 13/01/2011 Wozniak: Voice recognition is computing's next frontier

Look for more robust voice recognition to take hold in the realm of personal computing, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said in a brief interview this ...

Article | 6/01/2011 Drupal 7 arrives

Drupal 7, the latest upgrade to the popular open source Web content management system, is now generally available, Drupal builders said on Wednesday.

Article | 22/12/2010 Microsoft opens HTML5 Labs

Microsoft is debuting on Tuesday HTML5 Labs, a test and sandbox site for developers to experiment with early draft specifications of emerging HTML5-ba...

Article | 18/12/2010 University gives Java parallelism a boost

Java developers are getting more assistance in writing parallel programs for multi-core systems with another technology from the University of Illinoi...

Article | 15/12/2010 CloudBees launches Java cloud

CloudBees plans to unveil on Tuesday a Java cloud application platform featuring its own Dev@cloud application development infrastructure and the Java...