With all the buzz around the Internet of Things,it's easy to lose sight of the fact that the electricity grid already operates with millions of connected meters and sensors.Yet writing applications for these programmable machines is too ...
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If the community edition of the JBoss enterprise Java application server could no longer be called JBoss,what other name would you choose?JOpen?JWorker?JFree?JMinion?JBoss community users get to decide. Red Hat is planning to change the ...
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Microsoft won't back away from a radical overhaul of Windows and is determined to kill the decades-old, decades-rich desktop, analysts agreed today. The experts were reacting to a leak of a preliminary build of Windows "Blue," the code ...
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Cross- industry standards body, the Multicore Association has announced the availability of its Multicore Task Management Application Program Interface (MTAPI) that supports the coordination of tasks on embedded parallel systems. "To ...
The main thrust in enterprise systems this year has been the introduction of Windows 8 as the new Windows client OS. Windows 8 introduces WinRT, a new programming model for Windows software development, as well as a new way of thinking ...
Visual Studio is no longer simply an IDE, no longer a place you go just to write and debug C/C++ code. It has long since become something of a development mashup. It's where you go to tackle any task in the development process, regardless ...
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Was it only six years ago that Windows Mobile was a big part of the cellphone business? That was a time when only programmers thought of a mobile phone as a computer. Now we're heading into the second or third generation of the smartphone, ...
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The HSA Foundation is established to define and promote an open, standards-based approach to heterogeneous computing Technology firms AMD, ARM, Imagination Technologies, MediaTek and Texas Instruments (TI) have came together to form a non ...
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While upcoming upgrades to the Enterprise and Standard editions of Java are expected to lack some hoped-for improvements,the upgrades still will have a lot to offer,including enhancements for HTML5 and multicore processors,Oracle officials ...
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During the Windows 8 preview day in Amsterdam, Microsoft explained how it plans to change the way everyone uses computers in its so-called "beautiful experience". This will inevitably affect the way corporates use the Windows operating ...
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