At universities today, Cobol is mostly taught as an elective, and even then it's likely offered at less than one in four schools. For most students, this means the odds are high that they will attend a school that does not offer Cobol. ...
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With Automation Studio 4, B&R has forged an entirely new path when it comes to smart engineering. Many convenient automated functions as well as true-to-life architecture modeling, version control, support for shared projects and simple ...
After a lull, the race to add more processor cores to chips continues. Tilera is developing a new chip that will have more than 100 processor cores as the company looks to outperform ARM and Intel processors in Web-specific tasks. The ...
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Rackspace plans to add 1,000 people to its staff of about 5,000 over the next two years. It is doing so under an agreement with the state of Texas, which will help train its workers. The state is providing a $2.5 million grant for the ...
Despite recent headlines about its security woes, Java has returned to the top spot in a monthly assessment of the popularity of programming languages, 10 months after being supplanted by the C language. The Tiobe Programming Community ...
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Children as young as 11 years old are developing malicious code to steal personal information from online gamers, according to antivirus software provider AVG. The Q4 2012 Community Powered Threat Report reveals some schoolchildren have ...
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Following its latest threat report, security firm AVG has noted a “disturbing” new trend in the world of cybercrime – children with enough programming skills to code and distribute their own malware. The company said it ...
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British born investor Ben Horowitz, co-founder of investors Andreessen-Horowitz which has funds of $2.7bn invested, is looking for ‘really bad ideas’. "We invest in college drop-outs with insane ideas going after tiny markets ...
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ASN1C is an all-in-one development solution targeted at product developers working with standards based on Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1). Many standards bodies use ASN.1 to define interoperable protocols, in a variety of industries ...
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Rather than merely devising a mobile application strategy, development shops need to view mobile apps as just one component of a larger, "omni-channel" application architecture, according to an analyst report released this month. The ...
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Raspberry Pi interface board PiFace will be shipping to the public in the next few weeks. The board adds eight output and eight inputs to Raspberry Pi, as well as various LEDs, switches, and a couple of relays. Most ...
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Infoworld - Dueling language popularity assessments cite C and Java as the most popular programming languages this month. The established Tiobe Programming Community Index, which determines popularity by assessing Web page totals ...
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It is one of the widely used programming languages across the Web today, but PHP was created with decidedly modest ambitions, according to the creator of the language. "PHP doesn't really blaze a trail of innovation," admitted Rasmus ...
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The path from birth to death is filled with choices about where to work and what kind of work to do. Sometimes the world is nice enough to allow us some input. These days, developers have a lot more say in their employment, thanks to rising ...
IDG News Service - Microsoft is updating its C++ compiler for its Visual Studio 12 integrated development environment, or IDE, so that Windows application developers can use parts of the latest version of the programming language, C++11. ...
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