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

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new software development kit (SDK) for Google’s Go programming language. Go is a very young language, but has quickly risen to become one

Secure Decisions has announced the release of Code Dx 1.6, the latest version of its secure coding tool. The biggest new feature in the release is integration with other popular

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a new report titled “Vetting the Security of Mobile Applications.” The report urges enterprises to put apps through a “vetting”

VMware has announced that customers who use its vCloud Air hybrid cloud computing service will soon have access to four Google cloud services: Google’s BigQuery analytics, Cloud Storage, Datastore and

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