At the JavaOne 2012 event, Oracle’s Hasan Rizvi detailed some of the company’s upcoming plans for the Java platform. Those plans include support for Sumatra, a new project aimed at
At a conference in London, Canalyst senior analyst Tim Shepherd discussed what he called the “appification” of enterprise software. “Enterprise app stores are really starting to come through, and is
A Hong Kong-based site called ForumsWindows8.com recently polled its readers about their favorite operating system. Interestingly, 53 percent of the site’s visitors, all of them presumably Windows 8 users, said
The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced that it plans to finish the HTML5 spec by 2014 and the HTML 5.1 spec by 2016. That plan allows the committee to
A new report from Distimo has some interesting insights for mobile development firms that are considering localizing their apps for various regions. In every country except China, English apps are
Online-traffic analysis vendor Quantcast has released an open source big-data management engine. Called Quantcast File System (QFS) 1.0, the tool is designed to offer faster performance than Hadoop, which has
In an attempt to attract more third-party developers to its platform, startup social network App.Net is rolling out a new incentive program. The company plans to pay $20,000 to developers
IBM has announced a new program that encourages managed services providers to build their own cloud computing offerings using IBM’s PureSystem technology and SmartCloud software. Big Blue is offering zero-interest
Unnamed sources reported to Bloomberg that Intel CEO Paul Otellini told his company’s Taiwanese employees that Microsoft is rushing out Windows 8 before the operating system is fully complete. However,