Bike geeks and computer geeks (and one and the same) will come together next month at a "Hackfest" here, where developers will be challenged to come up with bike-themed mobile or web applications in three hours or less. The event is being ...
Following its buy-out of solid-state storage maker Texas Memory Systems (TMS) last fall, IBM today said it plans to make a $1 billion investment in flash development, a new line of all-flash appliances, and announced a flash deal with ...
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Premier Farnell is supporting ARM processor-based designs by making available a number of development tools, software and evaluation boards across Europe. A similar offering is already available in the Americas. The distributor's ARM ...
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West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking an external supplier for its ICT infrastructure improvement programme. The value of the contract is expected to be between £30m and £50m. The supplier chosen will be required ...
CA Technologies is suing a rival in the Application Performance Management (APM) market, accusing AppDynamics of using three of CA's patented technologies. The founder and CEO of AppDynamics helped lead software development at an APM ...
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Following its buy-out of solid-state storage maker Texas Memory Systems (TMS) last autumn, IBM today said it plans to make a $1 billion investment in flash development, a new line of all-flash appliances, and announced a flash deal with ...
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Salesforce.com is giving customers and partners access to a new set of tools and services for building mobile applications on its cloud platform. Like most enterprise software vendors, Salesforce.com is trying to cater to a world where ...
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With embedded control systems, the risk of software defects becomes evermore critical and qualification of test and development tools is a useful approach for designers, writes Jeremy Twaits Oil and water - fire and ice - complexity and ...
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Fujitsu has acquired RunMyProcess, a French startup that helps companies integrate on-site and cloud-based services. The startup offers API "connectors" for online services such as Google Apps that allow the services to talk to existing ...
In a bid to improve its IT operations, the Department of Homeland Security has adopted agile development and is turning to cloud platforms. At a recent hearing before the House Committee on Homeland Security, DHS deputy CIO Margaret ...
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Oracle's Unveiling of a batch of servers based on new Sparc processors late last month marked what could be the start of an expected shift toward standardizing the vendor's two families of Unix servers on a single chip architecture. ...
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A plug-in intended to make it easier for mobile developers to test applications and deploy them to the cloud is available for download. The open source plug-in, called the Soasta CloudTest Plugin for Jenkins, links the Jenkins continuous ...
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The land rush for mobile patents is so feverish that about one-quarter of all patents issued in the U.S. this year will be mobile-related, according to a study released on Wednesday. "It just shows, given the number of filings, how ...
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Orbotix, the developer of Sphero robotic ball and gaming system controlled by smartphones and tablets, has introduced a software development kit for augmented reality gaming applications. "Right now is the perfect time for augmented ...
Apple developers should pencil in June 10-14 as the dates for the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), according to the current schedule at the San Francisco venue where Apple has held the confab for the last 10 years. The Moscone ...
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