The Khronos Group today announced the ratification and public release of updated OpenCL 2.0 and Provisional SYCL 1.2 specifications. The new specifications integrate feedback from the developer community, align with the latest C++ developments, and increase implementation consistency for improved portability of heterogeneous parallel applications. The latest OpenCL and SYCL specifications are open, royalty-free and … continue reading
Today, Jama Software – a cloud-based collaborative solution used by Global 1,000 companies to define, build and test products – announced availability of the Jama Integration Hub. The Integration Hub, powered by Tasktop, will help companies overcome two of the most prevalent obstacles to effective product and application delivery: inadequate, untimely cross-team collaboration and lack … continue reading
Sonatype, a software company that enables developers to easily build software applications while significantly reducing security, compliance, and licensing risks, today released a new version of its Component Lifecycle Management (CLM) software. An industry first, developers can now avoid security risks without missing business-critical delivery deadlines While the availability of open source components has dramatically … continue reading
To introduce the DevOps community to the powerful benefits of launching applications to the market via automation, XebiaLabs today announced it will offer free community editions of both XL Deploy and XL Release. The company, a leading provider of enterprise software that enables DevOps and Continuous Delivery, is committed to empowering software developers to apply … continue reading
Augumenta, Ltd., the Finland-based provider of user interface tools for wearable computing, today announced release of its gesture-based control toolkit to qualified developers of smart glass applications for enterprise users. In addition to release of the Software Development Kit (SDK), Augumenta announced its first external financing round, led by Butterfly Ventures. “Release of our SDK … continue reading
When the Google Glass was first released, the company promised to provide seamless, beautiful and empowering technology all through a consumer’s eyes. But with the device in the hands of developers for more than a year, a new report finds that the Glass is more than half empty, as developers are losing interest and the … continue reading
A new Kickstarter project wants to help mold the next generation of innovators. DynePods is a wearable, educational, programmable and connected toy that is designed to teach fundamental concepts of customization, programming, engineering and socialization. “I am thrilled to be in the toy business,” said Krissa Watry, president and CEO of Dynepic, which developers DynePods. … continue reading
I like this new Microsoft. Satya Nadella’s Microsoft. Yes, the CEO needs to improve his public speaking skills, at least when talking to women’s conferences. Yet when you look at the company’s recent activities, what appears are lots of significant moves toward openness, a very positive focus on personal productivity, and even inventiveness. That’s not … continue reading
Neotys, a leader in easy-to-use, load testing tools for web and mobile applications, today announced the launch of NeoSense, a new synthetic production monitoring tool. NeoSense, now available with a 30-day Free Trial version, leverages the proven test design capabilities of Neotys’ load and performance testing tool, NeoLoad, to quickly create realistic monitoring profiles even … continue reading
We go through technology cycles, and often things that are incredibly popular evaporate over time. Eight-track tape players gave way to cassettes, which gave way to iPods, which gave way to iPhones and iPads. You might recall products like the Motorola Razr that folks lusted for, but that entire class of phone is largely gone … continue reading
At its re:Invent conference this week, Amazon announced two new services for its Amazon Web Services cloud. The first, AWS Lambda, is a compute service designed around event-based computing. The second, EC2 Container Service, is a container management service that supports Docker. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, introduced Lambda at the conference. “The focus here … continue reading
Google has announced it will be retiring the Google Wallet API on March 2, 2015. The API was designed to allow users and merchants to buy and sell digital goods. Payments will continue to be processed through Google Wallet until March 2, 2015 and developers will continue to have access to the merchant center until … continue reading
