On February 18-19, Google Compute Engine went down for two hours and forty minutes. The company said that the problem, which began around 11 p.m. Pacific Time on Wednesday, resulted

Google has announced that it will release MapReduce for C, or MR4C, under an open source license. Originally developed by Skybox Imaging, which Google purchased in 2014, the MR4C framework

RightScale has released the results of a new survey that asked enterprises about their use of public cloud computing services. Exactly half of surveyed enterprises with more than 1,000 employees

HP has released Distributed R, a new set of tools for running programs written in R on more than one server at a time. Open source R is one of

Cloud computing provider Pivotal has announced a new Big Data Suite, which it says is the “world’s first open-sourced enterprise-class suite of big data products.” The cloud-based suite includes Pivotal

Sony has begun selling a preview version of its SmartEyeglass to interested developers and enterprises, and it has also made an SDK available for those who want to create apps

Microsoft has released a Windows 10 Technical Preview that can run on some Lumia smartphones. “This is the earliest publicly available preview we’ve ever done for Windows on phones,” blogged

Apple has made it possible for iOS apps to get a lot more complicated. It has increased the maximum size limit for apps in the App Store from 2GB to

A new report from Dimensional Research sponsored by Sauce Labs finds that agile software development methodologies make a big impact on an organization’s testing practices. Nearly all of the developers

So far, virtual reality hardware like the Oculus Rift headset hasn’t taken off in the enterprise, but that could change soon. A company called Space-Time Insight has developed a new

Google has announced that it will hold its highly anticipated annual development conference May 28-29, 2015, the Thursday and Friday after Memorial Day. Once again the event will be held

During the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer gave some unexpected mobile development advice during a panel discussion. She calls it the “two-tap rule.” Mayer biographer

In the latest update of the Tiobe programming language popularity index, JavaScript has its best ranking ever: it’s in sixth place with a 3.514 percent rating. Last month, Tiobe named

A new survey conducted by QuinStreet finds that the most important factor in the success or failure of an enterprise app is how easy it is to use the interface.

Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service is rolling out two new improvements that may be of interest to enterprise application development teams. First, it is updating Azure Search, its “search as

IBM is adding five new beta services to its Watson Developer Cloud cognitive computing platform. They include the following: Speech to Text–real-time speech recognition that uses machine intelligence to generate

In the past, Microsoft hasn’t always been a Java supporter, but now it is promoting Java as a way to build cross-platform mobile apps. Microsoft Open Technology has posted a

Online handmade goods retailer Etsy recently completed a major rewrite of its Listing Manager, which sellers use to post items for sale. More than 10,000 Etsy users participated for the

Following through on its promises to open source much of its .NET development platform, Microsoft has added more elements to the GitHub release of .NET Core. “We got the initial

According to CompTIA’s Industry Outlook 2015, one out of every five U.S. companies have cancelled or postponed projects because they didn’t have enough IT staff, often developers, security specialists or