Black Duck Software has announced its annual list of “Open Source Rookies of the Year,” a set of new open source projects that the company believes are particularly noteworthy. This

Apple has released its earnings report for its first fiscal quarter, and the numbers are unbelievably good. The company sold 74.5 million iPhones for the quarter, a 46 percent year-over-year

Microsoft has announced its financial results for its second fiscal quarter, and its cloud computing revenue increased 114 percent. “Our commercial cloud services delivered triple-digit revenue growth for the sixth

BlackBerry CEO John Chen has written a letter to several members of Congress, asking them to require the Federal Communications Commission to enforce neutrality “at the application and content layer.”

Online job board Dice.com has released its annual salary report, including its list of the highest paying IT skills. Interestingly, seven of the top ten highest-paying skills are related to

A new report from CloudEndure says that two of the largest public cloud computing services saw significant improvements in their reliability during 2014. Amazon Web Services reduced its errors by

At its Windows 10 event on Wednesday, Microsoft revealed more details about the forthcoming operating system, and it took the wraps off two devices that could be of interest to

Google and Cloudera have partnered together on a project that will bring Google’s Cloud Dataflow programming model to Apache?s Spark data processing engine. Dataflow arose out of Google’s own internal

During IBM’s fourth quarter earnings call, CFO Martin Schroeter said the company grew its cloud computing business by 60 percent to hit $7 billion for the year. However, it’s unclear

The Linux Foundation has released a new report titled “Guide to the Open Cloud: Open Cloud Projects Profiled.” According to the organization, the guide is “a helpful primer for any

Facebook has announced that it will release deep learning modules for its Torch artificial intelligence (AI) project under an open source license. Specifically, it will release the following: GPU-optimized modules

Market analysts from Gartner have revised their enterprise IT spending projections for 2015. They now predict organizations will spend $3.8 trillion in 2015, a 2.4 percent increase from 2014; that’s

A new report from Embarcadero Technologies finds that 77 percent of development teams surveyed say they will be working on Internet of Things (IoT) projects this year. Only 16 percent

Microsoft Azure has announced two improvements to migration capabilities for its cloud computing service. First, the Azure Migration Accelerator now supports Linux. “Today, we are excited to add support for

Staffing firm Robert Half Technology and sister company The Creative Group have released a pair a reports that predict increasing demand for mobile development pros and big data experts. “The

The Apache Software Foundation has elevated its Flink big data system to Top-Level Project status. The open source tool offers both processing and analytics capabilities for real-time or batch data.

Last week, Verizon Cloud warned customers that its enterprise cloud computing service would shut down for up to 48 hours for planned maintenance. The outage lasted about forty hours and

Microsoft is rolling out a trio of new features for its Azure cloud computing service. First, its super-fast G-Series VMs are now generally available. According to the company, “G-series sizes

NASA has published the guidelines that it uses for writing safety-critical code. The agency primarily uses C for safety-critical code, but the guidelines are also applicable to other languages. Here

Tiobe has named JavaScript as the language of the year for 2014 because it was the biggest mover on their index, jumping from a 1.569 percent rating a year ago

In recent years, agile software development has enjoyed a steady rise in popularity, but now some developers have begun criticizing the methodology. At the Reaktor Dev Day in Finland, computer

Cloud Harmony has posted reliability ratings for thirty different cloud computing providers. Among the largest providers, Amazon’s EC2 appeared to have the best ratings for a compute service, achieving 99.9974