A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) says that the federal government is wasting money on maintaining old technology, some of it more than 50 years old,
Cloud-based communications platform Twilio has announced that it is opening a marketplace for third-party add-ons. ?This the beginning of Twilio?s marketplace,? said Twilio CEO and co-founder Jeff Lawson. ?What we?ve
As Microsoft’s mobile business continues to struggle, the company has announced plans to lay off up to 1,850 people working on smartphone hardware, many of them former Nokia employees. Microsoft
A new startup called SaaSGenius aims to combine Yelp-style reviews with cloud computing. This week it launched a beta version of its site, inviting people to submit reviews of cloud-based
At its annual developer conference, collaboration tool vendor Atlassaian launched several new tools of interest to enterprise application development teams. First, its JIRA and Confluence apps now have iOS apps,
The open source continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) server Jenkins has announced that it will be moving the back-end infrastructure for the project to Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service. “To support this
Microsoft has taken the wraps off the second release candidate for .NET Core version 2, and it includes many new APIs and other tools. .NET Core inclues a compiler, library
A pair of surveys from Toptal and Devpost are calling attention to weaknesses in the developer recruitment and hiring process. Twenty-five percent of those surveyed by Devpost said that behavioral
At SAP’s Sapphire Now conference, SAP and Microsoft announced that SAP’s HANA in-memory database is now certified to run on Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service. Enterprises will be able to