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Salesforce.com Unveils Salesforce1 Platform

Cloud computing heavyweight Salesforce.com is rolling out a new development platform it calls Salesforce1. The idea is to unify all of the company’s existing cloud development services—Force.com, Heroku, and ExactTarget

AWS Launches Kinesis Internet of Things Service

At its re:Invent developer conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled a new offering called Kinesis that will provide cloud-based infrastructure for the Internet of Things. Kinesis enables real-time processing of

IBM Announces Watson Cloud Development Service

Beginning next year, IBM plans to release a suite of tools that will give developers access to its Watson cognitive computing platform, which famously beat human competitors on the game

Microsoft Unveils Visual Studio Online

As part of its plan to offer cloud-based versions of most of its software, Microsoft has announced Visual Studio Online, a suite of developers tools that runs on the Azure

Pivotal Releases Cloud Development Platform

Pivotal, the company spun off from EMC and VMware, has launched its cloud development platform, known as Pivotal One Platform. It leverages the open source Cloud Foundry PaaS in a

AMD Announces APU Developer Tools

Next year, AMD plans to release its Berlin APUs, which will combine traditional CPUs with graphics processors (GPUs) on a single chip. To prepare for that launch, it is releasing

C Extends Its Lead in Popularity Ranking

Tiobe has updated its Programming Community Index, and this month, C cemented its position as the most popular programming language. For some time, C and Java have been neck-and-neck in

Java-Based Frameworks Win Benchmark Shootout

Since March, software development firm TechEmpower has been running benchmark tests on well-known Web application server frameworks and publishing the results. They just published the results of the seventh round