Comment The pace of Hadoop development is relentless. Hortonworks recently has had its IPO. Distribution owners strive to get their version deployed faster. Alliances are forming fast. MapR is extending its own reach by adding features so the software can be adopted more easily.…
It’s the first Monday of the month, so time for us to have a look at desktop operating system market share again!…
Google product veep Bradley Horowitz is now heading up the ad giant’s fading fast Google+ service, but its name appears to have put the willies up Mountain View’s execs lately – to the point where they simply don’t mention it any more.…
Ubuntu 15.04 is here – almost. The first beta of Vivid Vervet has been delivered, and with it have come images of the penguin flock that nestles on this OS.…
MWC 2015 Jolla, the smouldering platform which was born out of Nokia’s decision to go Microsoft, has announced its new version of the Sailfish OS.…
Guillaume Laforge, leader of the Groovy project, is joining Restlet, a small company which supports the open source Restlet framework.…
Last year, Google said Android 5, codenamed Lollipop, will encrypt the contents of smartphones and tablets by default. Now it’s had to do some backtracking.…
IBM has released a trio of enterprise applications for iOS devices, as part of its Businesslab partnership with Apple.…
Proximity-based hookup app Tinder has launched a premium service charging older users more to mingle with potential mates still in their prime.…
Like Hadoop but it’s just a bit too Javary? There’s now an answer for that: MapReduce for C (MR4C).…