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Programming, Database Are Top Skills for IT Pros on Wall Street Programming Languages and Database Programming language and database skills topped the eFinancialCareers most-searched-for jobs list for the period of June through August 2012. Programming, Database Are Top Skills for IT Pros on Wall Street Fixed Income Fixed-income expertise ranked second on the eFinancialCareers most-searched-for […]

Out of IPv4 Addresses On Feb. 3, 2011, the central pool of available IPv4 addresses managed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) was depleted when each Regional Internet Registry (RIR) received its last IPv4 addresses. The five RIRs (AfriNIC, APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC and the RIPE NCC) will continue to allocate IPv4 address space to […]

If you are looking for a job on Wall Street, IT skills are the way to go, particularly programming and database expertise, according to a recent study conducted by a leading career site network for the financial services industry. eFinancialCareers, a global career site network for professionals working in the investment banking, asset management and […]

As part of its continued expansion into Canada, IBM, along with the governments of Canada and Ontario and the City of Barrie, announced the opening of a new smart data center, the IBM Canada Leadership Data Centre. The Barrie, Ontario-based center is one of Canada’s most advanced computing facilities and it will focus on advancements […]

Xamarin, a maker of cross-platform mobile application development tools, has announced its support for iOS 6 app development. The new Xamarin release, MonoTouch 6, gives developers full access to all the native APIs associated with iOS 6’s new features, while it also allows for cross-platform code sharing between iOS, Android and Windows Phone. With MonoTouch […]

The Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS), Single Edition is now available as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud membership, the company announced. Adobe recently announced that it would continue to deliver value to its Adobe Creative Cloud offering, and this move shows the company is on track with that pledge. Adobe DPS Single Edition simplifies […]

The OpenStack community has announced the formal launch of the new OpenStack Foundation to continue to promote the development and adoption of the open-source OpenStack cloud software. As the independent home for OpenStack, the foundation has already attracted more than 5,600 individual members, secured more than $10 million in funding and is ready to fulfill […]

Salesforce.com’s Heroku platform as a service (PaaS) unit has announced Heroku Enterprise for Java, a new service for IT organizations to build and run Java applications in the cloud. With Heroku Enterprise for Java, enterprises can create and deploy enterprise Java applications in minutes instead of months, as well as move their apps to a […]

Microsoft and PreEmptive Solutions announced that PreEmptive Analytics and Dotfuscator CE will be included in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 to provide exception analytics for developers using the Microsoft flagship developer toolset. Dotfuscator CE, which has been included with every version of Visual Studio since Visual Studio 2003, prevents the reverse […]

Google has announced the release of J2ObjC, an open-source command-line tool that translates Java code to Objective-C for the iOS platform so that Java developers can more easily build apps for the iPhone and iPad. The goal of the J2ObjC tool is to enable developers to write an application’s non-UI code-such as data access or […]