A new survey from Gartner finds that Apple iPad owners use their devices more often than people who own other brands of tablets. In fact, 80 percent of iPad owners
LinkedIn has released Samza, a big data tool for real-time data processing, under an open source license. LinkedIn’s Chris Riccomini explained, “Samza helps you build applications that process feeds of
Splunk, known for its IT monitoring and analytics tools, has announced the acquisition of BugSense, a mobile analytics company. In the past, Splunk hasn’t targeted the mobile space. However, company
The Linux Foundation has released its annual Linux Development Report, which chronicles who is making the most contributions to the open source operating system. As in other recent years, most
Enterprises application development teams often shy away from “cutting edge” programming techniques. Large organizations often look for very stable solutions—after all, no one wants to slide from leading edge to
Red Hat has released two new software packages that will likely be of interest to many enterprise application development teams—Software Collections 1.0 and Developer Toolset 1.0. In the interest of
Oracle has made Java SE Update 40 available for download from its website. Although this was a relatively minor update, the new version of the Java Development Kit (JDK) does
This week, Microsoft unveiled a release candidate for Visual Studio 2013, the latest version of its integrated development environment (IDE), and it announced that the tool will hit release to
ReadWrite notes that open source database PostgreSQL is enjoying something of a surge in popularity with developers and enterprise IT pros. Hacker News mentions are up, and PostgreSQL job postings