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The Apache Software Foundation signed off on version 1.0 of HBase, the "Hadoop database," after seven years of development.
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HP Security Research offers at least part of the answer as to why Java had no major zero-day vulnerabilities discovered and exploited in the wild in 2014.
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Ahead of its 2015 "Mars" release train, the organization is reaching out to its community with a bug fix contest.
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Microsoft champions JUniversal project to translate Java code to target Android, Windows Phone and, eventually, iOS.
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Any doubts about the skyrocketing rise of Apache Spark technology in the Big Data ecosystem were put to rest at a recent conference, where it almost stole the show.
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In its voyage to becoming a "mobile-first company" under the direction of new CEO Marissa Mayer, Yahoo! Inc. announced a new Mobile Developer Suite at an inaugural developer conference underway in San Francisco.
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German Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider Bosch Software Innovations is acquiring ProSyst, a Java- and OSGi-based software vendor specializing in middleware for the IoT, the two companies announced this week.
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The latest major vendor to try its hand at "democratizing" Big Data is Oracle, which today announced a quartet of new products designed "to enable Hadoop, NoSQL, and SQL technologies to work together and be deployed securely in any model -- whether public cloud, private cloud or an on-premises infrastructure."
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App crashing? There's an app for that.
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Microsoft today announced updates to several Big Data-related services on its Azure cloud platform, exhibiting a continuation of its new direction toward openness and interoperability.
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The company is open sourcing its Big Data platform, helping to found an Open Data Platform to promote technologies based on open source software, and is joining with Hortonworks Inc. to further Apache Hadoop capabilities.
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Datameer Inc. has introduced what it calls the first enterprise-grade Big Data analytics platform targeting department-specific deployments.
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Node.js, the popular open-source, server-side JavaScript runtime project, will soon be governed by an independent foundation.
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Excelsior has shipped an updated version of its flagship Java optimizer and native code generator, called JET ("Just Enough Time").
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Scala.js, the open-source Scala to JavaScript compiler, is no longer "experimental," say the project's maintainers.
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One of the coolest data visualizations I've seen in a while shows JavaScript rules the repository roost on GitHub, by a pretty big margin.
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Enterprise NoSQL database platform vendor MarkLogic Corp. cited "massive enhancements for developers" in the latest version of its flagship database.
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Service virtualization can be a real productivity boost for developers. John delves into what it is/what it can do with expert analyst Theresa Lanowitz.
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Industry perspectives on developer fatigue plus a possible solution.
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Mobile dev tools keep emerging to solve that pesky "coding is hard" problem.