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Sixteen million mobile devices infected by malicious software, report says
A new report from Alcatel-Lucent’s Motive Security Labs has revealed that 16 million mobile devices infected with malicious software. “The simple fact is mobile consumers don’t take the necessary security precautions to protect their devices, and even when they do, malware can easily evade detection by device security-based anti-virus,” wrote Kevin McNamee, director of Motive …
Microsoft’s first build for Windows 10, Apple adds group to TestFlight, and two-factor authentication for FaceTime and iMessage—SD Times news digest: Feb. 13, 2015
Developers can get their hands on the first build of Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones. Microsoft has announced the first build is available for Windows Insiders. “This is the earliest publicly available preview we’ve ever done for Windows on phones,” wrote Gabe Aul, engineering general manager at Microsoft, on the company’s blog. “This preview …
SD Times GitHub Project of the Week: Tinderbox
As with many a repetitive manual task, it was only a matter of time before a user on the popular dating app Tinder invented a robot to match and message other singles for them. This week’s GitHub Project of the Week is Tinderbox a machine-learning program built on the Tinder API that learns what types …
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Testing changes in agile development shops, study finds
As agile practices, Continuous Integration and other new methodologies come into development environments, organizations have come to realize they need to change the way they test software. Among the changes highlighted in a recent survey of more than 500 developers by Dimensional Research and sponsored by Sauce Labs are that organizations are doing more automated …
Altova releases MobileTogether 1.4 with geo-location and Android Lollipop support
Altova has released version 1.4 of its MobileTogether cross-platform framework with new geolocation functionality, better iOS rendering, and support for string localization, XQuery 3.1 and Android 5.0 Lollipop. MobileTogether, launched this past December for design and deployment of custom mobile enterprise applications, has gone through several incremental releases in the past two months adding additional …
Node.js stewardship controversy quelled at Node Summit
It’s been an interesting path to success for Node.js. Since its first release in 2009, the Node community has been quite vocal about anything and everything. Most recently, the community was murmuring about Joyent’s handling of the open-source, cross platform server-side JavaScript runtime for building networked applications. And calls for the dispensation of Node.js’ assets …
Microsoft acquires Android and iOS calendar app, Google releases new tools to measure cloud performance, and W3C announces the working draft of WebRTC 1.0—SD Times news digest: Feb. 12, 2015
Microsoft has officially announced its acquisition of Sunrise, developer of a next-generation Android and iOS calendar app. “We are making this acquisition because we believe a reinvention in the way people use calendars on mobile devices is long overdue. Our goal is to better help people manage and make the most of their time in …
Facebook announces ThreatExchange to tighten software security
Facebook is trying to combat the threat of malware and security through collaboration. The company just announced ThreatExchange, an API-based platform designed for organizations to share security threat information. The idea for ThreatExchange manifested about a year ago through a discussion about a botnet causing a malware attack across a group of technology companies’ services. …
Hitachi to acquire Big Data analytics company Pentaho
Japanese enterprise technology company Hitachi has announced its plans to acquire Big Data analytics company Pentaho. Hitachi will add Pentaho’s open-source Big Data deployment platform to its portfolio, eventually merging Pentaho’s Big Data analysis and machine-learning capabilities into its Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) products. According to Hitachi’s announcement, the company’s plans for a shared analytics …
Hour of Code surpasses 100 million hours, Docker 1.5 released, and the White House addresses cybersecurity—SD Times news digest: Feb. 11, 2015
Code.org announced its Hour of Code campaign has eclipsed 100 million hours, measured by the time students have spent taking the free programming courses and tutorials offered online. The total dates back to the program’s beginning back in June 2013. The organization also announced the number of lines of code written has surpassed 5 billion …
Sam Ramji takes helm of Cloud Foundry Foundation
The Cloud Foundry Foundation was formed in early December of 2014, and already it has found a leader. Sam Ramji was announced as the new director of the Cloud Foundry Foundation this morning. Ramji said that he plans to run the Foundation like a startup. He said that the companies signed on to support Cloud …
SD Times Blog: Fresh Programmer’s Proverbs impart coding enlightenment
There’s a peculiar trend taking shape in the coding world, as one of the fastest growing professions finds scores of new programmers joining its ranks each year. These young programming Padawans seek wisdom, and half-joking, half-serious programming proverbs have become a popular delivery mechanism. Last summer, we covered Programmer’s Proverbs, a GitHub repository launched by …
How to register for Google I/O 2015
Google has announced the dates for this year’s Google I/O developer conference, set to take place during Memorial Day week on May 28-29. Registration opens on March 17 at 12pm EST (9am PST) and closes two days later on March 19 at 8pm EST (5pm PST.) Sundar Pichai, Google senior vice president of Android, Chrome …
3D Robotics open-sources drone flight control code
Drone development has made huge advances recently, but once the drones get off the ground, users need to be able to fly, control and track them. Drone maker 3D Robotics has announced it has open-sourced its Tower flight control app for drones. The application not only provides users with a feature-rich flight experience, but the …
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- Hortonworks and Hitachi Data Systems partner to deliver Apache Hadoop to the enterprise
- Latest release of Collaborator by SmartBear increases integration with third-party tools via external API
- New open-source Myriad project unifies Apache YARN and Apache Mesos resource management
- Cloudera and Cask announce strategic partnership
- Sencha Space 1.3 streamlines mobile and desktop application usage for the modern enterprise workforce
- Logentries releases logging container for Docker 1.5 Stats API
- Applitools announces 1-click visual testing solution for front-end developers and manual testers
- 3scale and Red Hat join forces to help organizations thrive in the API economy
- NodeSource raises $3 million from Crosslink Capital, Resolute Ventures to build tools for enterprise scalability
- Red Hat and NEC collaborate to achieve carrier-grade OpenStack solutions for NFV
- Chartio enables Web developers to create and embed beautiful dashboards for customers
- Cloudera acquires Xplain.io to accelerate adoption of self-service analytics
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A technical comparison of workflow and business applications
Despite improvements to its workflow capabilities in 2013, SharePoint remains limited in what you can do in many application scenarios. This white paper looks at out-of-the-box SharePoint functionality and what can be done with K2’s Appit solution for forms, workflows and line-of-business applications. With SharePoint 2013, the following shortcomings have been highlighted: Only data within …
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Overcoming workflow limitations in SharePoint 2013
Organizations need sophisticated, reliable SharePoint workflow apps with advanced capabilities, such as flexible outcomes beyond the simple approve-or-decline scenario, rich and flexible forms that support hand-held devices, easy integration with external line-of-business systems, and more advanced error reporting and recovery options. Unfortunately, SharePoint does not offer any of this functionality out of the box. Some key areas where SharePoint …
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Key Trends in Building Enterprise Applications with HTML5
WEBINAR DATE: Tuesday March 3, 2015 TIME: 1 PM EST HTML5 has proven itself to be a reliable and powerful platform for deploying robust web applications across a multitude of devices. But because web technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace, it is often difficult for enterprise developers to choose the “best” tools and …
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Create your Sharepoint Lab on AWS
Using public cloud like AWS to build complex Sharepoint lab environment is perhaps the best way to learn how to use Microsoft’s collaboration and document management software. You can quickly provision additional labs, run them temporarily and pay only for actual run time. In this white paper, you will learn how to use Ravello Systems’ …
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How to Replicate Your Existing SharePoint Server Farm On AWS
Cloud computing is gaining in popularity to meet the scalable workloads of organizations. With the greater adaptability of DevOps, many enterprises are selecting cloud as the preferred option for their development, QA/test, upgrade testing, UAT (User Acceptance Testing), and training environments. At the same time application environments like Sharepoint farm are very complex with multiple …
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