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Facebook to release open source library for iOS interface development
Facebook, within a few weeks, plans to release an open source library intended to help developers build native Apple iOS apps with smooth, responsive user interfaces.
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Review: Apache Hive brings real-time queries to Hadoop
Apache Hive is a tool built on top of Hadoop for analyzing large, unstructured data sets using a SQL-like syntax, thus making Hadoop accessible to legions of existing BI and corporate analytics researchers. Developed by Facebook engineers and contributed to the Apache Foundation as an open source project, Hive is now at the forefront of big data analysis in commercial environments.
Microsoft's new mega tech conference: The pros and cons
For the last several years, Microsoft has sponsored a series of technology events for enterprises, each focused on a different part of the Microsoft technology stack.
This is the golden age of open source
Matt Asay is dead wrong to call the current era of the software industry "post open source," as he did in InfoWorld last week.
Apple reports huge profit but sales disappoint
Apple has racked up another hugely profitable quarter on sales of iPhones and Macintosh computers, though its revenue growth was slower than expected.
Apple on Tuesday reported a profit of $7.7 billion for the April-to-June quarter, up 12 percent on the same period last year and ahead of analyst estimates of $7.5 billion, according to Thomson Reuters.
Aphid brings embeddable scripting to .Net
Aphid is bringing embeddable, cross-platform scripting to the .Net world.
Prove it! Another security vendor claims 100 percent malware detection
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The making of a Microsoft CEO: Layoffs and lip service
If you assign colors to Microsoft CEOs, I suppose Bill Gates would be green, which I'm hoping has something to do with confidence and competence.
Don't believe false alarms about Docker containers
As Docker picks up steam, a few people are suggesting that this approach to cloud workload portability and management may have an Achilles' heel.
Docker containers sit on a shared Linux implementation, which creates the potential for significantly more vulnerabilities that can affect the operation of every container on a server, especially if the underlying OS goes down. In such an event, all containerized workloads could go down as well.
Whatever happened to green IT?
Remember when "green computing" was all the rage? Companies competed for green awards, virtualized their data centers, set up e-waste committees, launched double-sided printing initiatives and activated power management features on PCs.
iOS devices are still safe -- from everybody except Apple and the NSA
Forensic researcher Jonathan Zdziarski has outlined details of how undocument
VMware dangles dollars for mobile, apps, and virtualization migration
VMware's newest offering isn't a product so much as an escape hatch.
Two glimmers of hope for enterprise security
Enterprise security has become the breach-of-the month club.
13 ways to optimize your Android smartphone
