Even Microsoft is advising Web developers to stop using Silverlight and start using HTML5. In a recent blog post, the company wrote, “The commercial media industry is undergoing a major
In last month’s 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC), 18 of the 23 teams who competed used the open source Robotic Operating System (ROS), and 14 used an open source robot
IBM, Nvidia and Mellanox Technologies have announced plans to open an OpenPower Design Center in France; it will be the second facility of its kind in Europe. The design center
Cisco has unveiled its IoT System, a collection of products and services related to the Internet of Things. It includes more than 15 new offerings, including network switches and routers,
Microsoft had previously said that it would begin rolling out Windows 10 on July 29, and now it is revealing more details about that rollout plan. The five million people
The Linux Foundation has set up a new organization dedicated to the advancement of the R programming language. Called the R Consortium, the group will be governed by a steering
The Eclipse Foundation, the group behind the popular open source Eclipse IDE, releases an annual “train” of updates for its projects. This year’s train, codenamed Mars, was released on schedule
Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio 2015, the next update of its flagship IDE, will be available for download on July 20. Team Foundation Server 2015 and .NET 4.6 will
Now that Apple has opened up the Apple Watch to third party developers, some enterprise software developers, including SAP, are getting in on the action. SAP has beta trials underway