During the keynote address on the first day of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), the company made a number of noteworthy announcements. The new streaming music service is getting most
At the Hadoop Summit, MapR Technologies announced the release of the fifth version of its MapR Hadoop distribution. According to the company, the update offers notable performance improvements. It speeds
The New York Times is reporting that the Walt Disney Company recently laid off about 250 technology workers, including some software developers, and replaced them with foreign workers holding H-1B
CA Technologies has purchased Grid-Tools, a development and testing tool vendor, for an undisclosed sum. Just over a week ago, CA bought Rally Software, another development tool vendor. Both acquisitions
NoSQL database vendor Couchbase has launched a new programming language called N1QL (pronounced “nickel”). Short for “Non-first Normal Form Query Language,” N1QL allows developers to perform SQL-like queries on JSON
Cisco has announced that it will buy Piston Cloud Computing for an undisclosed sum. Piston was a startup that offered a distribution of the OpenStack open source cloud computing platform.
At the Computex conference in Taiwan, Microsoft and Toshiba announced that they would be partnering together on a range of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and services. The companies expect
The market researchers at IDC have released a new report predicting that the Internet of Things (IoT) market will be worth $1.7 trillion by 2020. Devices such as modules and
Facebook has announced that it is opening an artificial intelligence research facility in Paris, France. Many of the world’s leading AI researchers, including Yann LeCun, the director of Facebook’s artificial-intelligence