IDG News Service - Adjusting to changes in corporate hardware buying habits, the Apache Software Foundation's Cassandra NoSQL distributed database has been updated to better use larger servers through the introduction of virtual nodes and ...
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Security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro have uncovered a piece of backdoor-type malware that infects Java-based HTTP servers and allows attackers to execute malicious commands on the underlying systems. The threat, known as ...
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Network World-Mobile apps are all the rage these days,but to get one built for your organization can be a daunting financial prospect.Should you decide to go to a bespoke shop to have your dream iOS or Android app coded you would be looking ...
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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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IDG News Service - Boston Limited on Monday said it was manufacturing and distributing a low-power server with ARM-based chips, becoming one of the few companies to make such a server commercially available. The Viridis server has the ...
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IDG News Service - Brightcove's native plug-in architecture for its App Cloud and Application Craft's launch of Mobile Build are the latest examples of how cross-platform development tools for mobile apps are becoming increasingly ...
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Infoworld - After two years and 18 releases, Google this week took the beta label off mod_pagespeed, its Web page speed technology. Mod_pagespeed is an open source Apache module in use at more than 120,000 sites, Joshua Marantz and Ilya ...
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IDG News Service-The latest version of Amazon Web Services'Linux AMI is now available,and includes the R language as well as new versions of Apache and PHP. The Linux AMI(Amazon Machine Image)is a supported Linux image offered by Amazon ...
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Infoworld - Nearly 15 years since the term "open source" was first applied, the trends driving the open source movement are not the same. Back then, price advantage, direct differentiation on licensing versus proprietary software, ...
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Amazon is providing a way for one of the most popular JavaScript extensions, node.js, to easily access the Amazon Web Service collection of cloud computing capabilities. The AWS Developer Tools Team has released a preview of an SDK ...
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MadCap was recognized in the Content Creation category for its native XML MadPak technical communications suite enabling single-source publishing to print, desktops, mobile and the Web. MadCap Software, Inc., the leader in multi-channel ...
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The Government Digital Service (GDS) is rolling out open source content management system Drupal, according to one of its suppliers. GDS is also looking at integrating a Drupal function that will allow it to spin out new government sites ...
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High-energy physicists working at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern in Switzerland are benefiting from a NoSQL database management system that gives them unified access to data from a slew ...
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With the commercial release of version 5 of its self-named reporting and analysis suite, Jaspersoft has revamped the software's visualization engine, doing away with an Adobe Flash-based visualization engine in favor of one using HTML5 Web ...
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In a sweeping change of ownership, Chevron is taking control of Canada's Kitimat LNG project, with two of the three partners bowing out after failing in their attempts over the past year to secure offtake customers in Asia. The ...
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