Sqoop, a big data tool for transferring data between Hadoop and structured data stores, has graduated to top-level project status at the Apache Software Foundation

Google's freshly released Chrome 18 browser adds hardware-accelerated Canvas rendering for applications such as games

The open source mashup platform Apache Rave has moved out of the Apache Software Foundation's incubator to become a top-level project

AWS gives researchers instant access to the complete 200TB database from the 1000 Genomes Project

Collaboration software maker Atlassian ships Bamboo 4 continuous integration server for developers

Google has introduced version 1.0 of its Go programming language, after nearly two years of development and testing

Microsoft has open sourced more of its Web development technology and is accepting community code submissions

Microsoft has made an update to the Windows Phone development kit available for download, as it works with Nokia to bolster the platform's future

Tracelytics has raised £3.2m in funding around its application performance management offering

The US Army has launched a marketplace prototype for approved apps while the Air Force has bought into the iPad revolution