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Windows 8.1 Update Could Arrive in April

ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley writes that unnamed sources have told her Microsoft changed the planned shipment date for Windows 8.1 Update 1 from March to April. In addition to bug

The Eclipse Foundation Turns 10

The Eclipse Foundation, the non-profit organization that oversees the Eclipse IDE and related projects, was first announced on Feb. 2, 2004, meaning that it has just celebrated its tenth anniversary.

80% of Applications Are Misconfigured, Says HP

HP’s 2013 Cyber Risk report finds that developers are making mistakes that result in security vulnerabilities. According to the company, 80 percent of all applications are misconfigured, which makes them

Microsoft Names Satya Nadella as CEO

Microsoft has confirmed that Satya Nadella will be its next CEO, replacing Steve Ballmer effective immediately. A twenty-two year veteran at the company, Nadella most recently headed up Microsoft’s Cloud

IBM Claims to be the Cloud Leader

IBM claims that it generated more cloud revenue in 2013 than Amazon Web Services. In its latest financial statement, Amazon reported $3.72 billion in “other” revenue, which includes all AWS

Why We Need Extreme Late Binding

Why We Need Extreme Late Binding

Late binding is a mechanism in which the method being called upon an object is looked up by name at runtime. This mechanism was useful in Microsoft’s Component Object Model

AWS Sales Appear to Have Risen Sharply

Amazon has released its earnings report for the fourth quarter of 2013, and its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing division appears to have had a fantastic quarter. It’s hard

Tips for Ensuring Secure Web Login

User authentication is employed by a large number of websites. However, the security of that authentication is often not properly implemented, making the websites an easier target for malicious hackers.

Intel to Close AppUp Store

Intel has announced that it will close down AppUp, it’s little-known storefront for PC apps. The store will stop working March 11, and apps that communicated with the AppUp client

Cisco Launches ‘Fog Computing’ Initiative

Cisco has launched a new Internet of Things (IoT) project that will bring distributed computing to its network hardware. The company calls this concept “fog computing,” and it has launched

Bluetooth?? Smart Technology Unveiled as the Magic Behind Beacons

Bluetooth?? Smart Technology Unveiled as the Magic Behind BeaconsIntelligent, Power-efficient Wireless Technology Makes In-store Couponing, Mobile Payments and Location-based Services a RealityKirkland, WA ??? January 28, 2014 ??? Bluetooth Smart,

How Popular Is the Private Cloud?

In a recent Forrester Research report, 30 percent of North American enterprises claimed to have deployed private clouds, 19 percent to have deployed hosted private clouds and only 10 percent

Forrester: Every Company Should Be a Software Company

In a new report titled “Software Must Enrich Your Brand: Software Is A Critical Strategic Asset, Not An Operational Nice-To-Have,” Forrester Research argues that applications are a key part of

Cloudwashing Goes Pro

Cloudwashing has always been one of the greatest challenges of the emerging Cloud Computing marketplace. At its core, we define Cloudwashing as saying something is Cloud when it really isn?t.

Salesforce.com Adds More .NET Tooling

Salesforce.com is reaching out to .NET developers with a new group of tools related to the Microsoft platform. According to Salesforce’s Wade Wegner, the company has released new toolkits that

Why Isn’t PaaS More Popular?

InfoQ has put together a good roundup of analyst opinions about the state of the platform as a service (PaaS) market. PaaS offerings appear to fill an important enterprise need,

AWS Slashes S3, EBS Prices

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is once again dropping prices on some of its cloud services. This time it’s storage that’s getting cheaper, specifically Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Block

Can Enterprise Architecture sell Software?

As the author of The Agile Architecture Revolution, one of the questions I get now that I work for a software vendor is how Enterprise Architecture can help my company,

CloudSpokes and Topcoder Unite

Appirio has announced that it is unifying two development crowdsourcing communities that it owns: CloudSpokes and topcoder. It is retiring the CloudSpokes name and moving everyone over to topcoder, which