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• Rio Tinto signs $20M IT services deal with Empired

  Mining giant, Rio Tinto has signed a $20 million, five-year managed services contract with IT services company, Empired Limited.
  

• Microsoft open-sources JavaScript tools

  Continuing its overtures toward open source, Microsoft is unveiling technologies for packaging applications and remotely debugging JavaScript.

• Microsoft open-sources .Net build system

  MSBuild, the build platform for Microsoft's Visual Studio toolset and the .Net Platform, is now open source, marking the software giant's latest embrace of the open source movement.

• Microsoft .Net's execution engine goes open source

  Continuing with plans to open up its software development technologies, Microsoft this week open-sourced CoreCLR, the .Net execution engine in the .Net Core platform.

• Hadoop on Windows Azure: Hive vs. JavaScript for processing big data

  For some time Microsoft didn't offer a solution for processing big data in cloud environments. SQL Server is good for storage, but its ability to analyze terabytes of data is limited. Hadoop, which was designed for this purpose, is written in Java and was not available to .Net developers. So, Microsoft launched the Hadoop on Windows Azure service to make it possible to distribute the load and speed up big data computations.

• Microsoft to help C++ developers leverage parallel programming

  Microsoft introduced this week technology for C++ developers to leverage GPUs (graphics processing units) for parallel programming.

• Novell's Moonlight shines on Google Android

  Novell is porting Moonlight, an open source version of Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet application plug-in software, to Google's Android mobile platform, a Novell official acknowledged on Tuesday afternoon.

• Mobile, cloud are changing application development

  Mobile and cloud computing are beginning to change the way that developers work at enterprise-level and smaller businesses, according to a report released this week by Forrester Research.