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
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
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
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
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
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
Skytap has announced that it has updated its cloud development and deployment services to support AWS and VMware workloads. Skytap runs on Amazon’s cloud infrastructure. It offers developers the chance
Facebook has released the source code for Presto, its interactive SQL-on-Hadoop engine, under an open source license. First introduced in June, Presto is said to average ten times faster than
How important is it for agile application development teams to have fun together? InfoQ recently collected a variety of opinions on the topic. The majority seem to concur that a