Microsoft has announced its next-generation operating system for all devices: Windows 10. Windows chief Terry Myerson walked onstage at Microsoft’s press event this afternoon and announced a curveball: The new operating system is skipping over 9 and moving straight to 10, and the Microsoft community is getting wider preview access than ever before with the … continue reading
The clear focus of this year’s JavaOne, going on this week in San Francisco, is the community around Java and the state of the platform. To this end, Patrick Curran, chair of the Java Community Process, described a number of initiatives ongoing within the JCP, which he hopes will open the group to more participation … continue reading
SAM: The electronics development kit A new Kickstarter project wants to close the gap between software development and hardware development. SAM is an electronics development kit that integrates hardware, software and the Internet to make it easer to learn about electronics, the Internet of Things and coding. “SAM is for anyone who wants to create … continue reading
Oracle OpenWorld JavaOne 2014 Conference – ObjectRiver, a metadata compiler company for transforming legacy solutions, announced today a product for generating WebSocket compliant solutions for the emerging Java WebSocket standard JSR356. WebSockets is part of the HTML5 standard for communicating with Web servers. ObjectRiver’s WebSocket Compiler Toolkit is the first of its kind to leverage … continue reading
AppDynamics, the application intelligence leader for software-defined businesses, today announced a self-service freemium version of AppDynamics Mobile Real-User Monitoring, its disruptive, next-generation solution for collecting mobile application behavioral analytics and managing the 24/7 performance of mobile applications in real time. And after 15 days free use of the full featured trial product, the mobile crash … continue reading
Akamai Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of cloud services for delivering, optimizing and securing online content and business applications, today released its Second Quarter, 2014 State of the Internet Report. Based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform™, the report provides insight into key global statistics such as connection speeds and broadband adoption across … continue reading
In January 2012, three Twitter engineers were in charge of writing and maintaining the entire codebase for Android. New versions of the app were released every two to three months. Twitter’s mobile development needed to scale way up, and to do that the social networking company needed not only to restructure its development team, but … continue reading
Zeenyx Software, a testing solutions company, announced the release of AscentialTest version 7.2, which features integration with Jira for defect tracking and management. AscentialTest now provides a way for users to manage the relationship between tests, test results and defects. Users can create defects and assign tests to defects from within their test repository. By … continue reading
Were you Left Behind? Did your company experience some Fallout? Are a Boy and His Dog all that’s left in your IT department this morning because all your admins were up until 2 a.m. every day this weekend rebooting Amazon images? You were not alone. This weekend, Amazon pushed all of its users through the … continue reading
The Eclipse Foundation today announced its Internet of Things (IoT) projects, making them available online. The projects range from development helpers to server-side frameworks for dealing with the numerous different standards and proprietary protocols that exist in the IoT. Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, said that “We’ve led quite a few projects … continue reading
The Apache Storm project has graduated to a Top-Level Project (TLP), according to the Apache Software Foundation. Storm is an open-source high-performance distributed real-time computation framework for Big Data stream processing. Hadoop clusters and other queuing and database technologies can leverage Storm to process a full range of workloads, from real-time to interactive to batch. … continue reading
Nixie: The wearable drone Imagine being able to take a picture while rock climbing, bike riding, hiking, snowboarding and more without having to miss a step. That’s what Nixie aims to do. Nixie is a tiny wearable drone that lives on a user’s wrist and, when launched, can fly around to take photos and videos … continue reading
