Among developers involved with big data projects, a minor controversy has been brewing about which programming language best meets their needs. Many point to R as the ideal language for

Apps aren’t just an integral part of the mobile experience—they’re also transforming enterprise IT. eWeek offers ten tips for enterprises that want to jump on the app bandwagon. View Your

While the overall unemployment rate is fairly high, unemployment for developers continues to be very low, and enterprise application development teams are finding it difficult to hire really good employees.

IBM says it will spend $1.2 billion to build fifteen new data centers that will support its cloud computing businesses. The new facilities will be spread across the U.S., China,

According to the Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report, 91 percent of 2013 cyberattacks exploited a weakness in Java. “I was surprised to see that the Java [Indicator of Compromise] number

In an interesting post at Slate.com, programmer Philip Guo says that being Asian and male has helped him in his career and that he’s seen the opposite to be true

A new report from Evans Data finds rising popularity for Android within the mobile development industry. Google’s mobile OS is now the most commonly targeted platform for tablet apps with

In an interview with InfoQ Régis Medina explained why he thinks it’s a good idea for enterprise development teams to apply both Lean and Agile principles in their daily work.

It’s been possible run Hadoop on Google Cloud Storage for quite some time, but now Google is releasing a new connector that it says will make the task easier. The

According to an Oracle posting to the Java mailing list, the company will ship Java Development Kit (JDK) 8 on March 18 even if it’s still a little buggy. Between

According to Paul Thurrott, the biggest announcement Microsoft will make at the BUILD developer conference in April will be its vision for the next version of Windows. Currently codenamed Threshold,

Market researchers at IDC are forecasting greater enterprise interest in application life-cycle management (ALM) tools during 2014. The firm says high-profile software failures at Nasdaq, Amazon.com, Goldman Sachs, United Airlines

In preliminary guidance for investors, SAP reported that sales of its HANA cloud computing software were up 69 percent in 2013. While that may seem impressive, it failed to meet

An IDG Connect survey commissioned by Unisys recently found that 50 percent of C-level executives preferred private clouds to public or hybrid cloud computing environments. By comparison, 26 percent preferred

In a recent blog post, Facebook’s Durham Goode and Siddharth Agarwal explained how they modified the Mercurial version control system to meet their company’s needs. At issue was the vast

Its Salesforce1 platform is still very young, but Salesforce.com says the mobile platform is already showing great promise. In the first month after Salesforce1 launched, the cloud computing company saw

Microsoft has purchased Parature, an enterprise software vendor, and plans to integrate its customer service knowledgebase into Dynamics CRM. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but TechCrunch pegs the

Microsoft has announced two upcoming developer events. First, it will co-host a social-focused hackathon with Facebook January 17-18. “A number of our engineers along with Facebook’s engineers will be there

Like much of our society, programming is driven by trends. As new technologies create better precision, efficiency and ease of use, older technologies fall by the wayside. InfoWorld has put

Runnable, the three-month-old code discovery service that aims to be the “YouTube of code,” has announced two major new features. First, Runnable has added support for two of the most