The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced that Apache Parquet has graduated from incubator status to become a top-level project. Parquet is a columnar Hadoop storage format used in many
A new mobile development survey from OutSystems finds that many enterprise developers are embracing mobile, but they are using Web and hybrid development tools more often than native mobile development
Microsoft kicks off its annual Build development conference tomorrow. Based on the company’s previous comments, attendees can expect to hear about Windows 10 development and see the HoloLens augmented reality
A Florida-based software developer named Robert Heath has filed a federal age-discrimination case against Google. He says that in 2011 a Google recruiter called him a “great candidate” for a
Red Hat has released two new updates to its open source enterprise development tools: Red Hat Developer Toolset 3.1 and Red Hat Software Collections 2. Developer Toolset 3.1 includes GNU
In a blog post, Hadoop distribution vendor MapR said that it would not be joining the Open Data Platform (ODP) initiative. Formed earlier this year, ODP aims to develop open
Nitrous.IO, a startup based in the U.S. and Singapore, has announced a new cloud development service targeted at enterprise users. The platform as a service (PaaS) speeds the process of
BlackBerry has a new plan for remaining relevant even as its smartphones experience rapidly dwindling market share; the company has launched an initiative called the Center for High Assurance Computing
Google has quietly unveiled a new open source programming language that generates and extends JSON. Called Jsonnet, the language aims to make it easier to create JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).