A new study conducted by researchers in Sri Lanka has reached a startling conclusion: refactoring code doesn’t improve its quality. The report, titled “An Empirical Evaluation of Impact of Refactoring
A new survey from Tata Communications finds that enterprises using cloud computing services have a generally positive experience with the technology. Among those surveyed, 85 percent said the cloud lives
China-based Aliyun, a cloud computing vendor that is a subsidiary of e-commerce giant Alibaba, has announced the opening of a data center in Silicon Valley. This is the company’s first
At the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Microsoft offered a session titled “First look at the Windows 10 Universal App Platform.” The company explained that its new Universal App
According to the latest quarterly Mobility Index Report from Good Technology, 73 percent of all devices activated by Good’s enterprise customers during the fourth quarter of 2014 ran iOS, up
Several public cloud computing vendors, including Amazon, Rackspace, Linode and IBM have notified customers of impending reboots due to a security issue with the Xen hypervisor. The vulnerability in question
IBM is expanding its MobileFirst enterprise mobile development platform with two new modules. The first module, called Presence Insights, allows organizations to track users’ movements within a building. It’s helpful
The Eclipse Foundation has launched a new contest aimed at finding any remaining bugs in “Mars,” the codename for the 2015 release train for the Eclipse IDE. The “Great Fixes
At its InterConnect 2015 event, IBM announced a new set of hybrid cloud computing services. “Today, we are launching a new class of cloud innovations that extend open standards capabilities