Google is shutting down the Google Glass Explorer Program, and the augmented reality eyewear is exiting the Google X research lab as a standalone product overseen by Nest CEO Tony Fadell. According to a report from Fortune, Google will end sales of the current US$1,500 version of Glass on Jan. 19. Current Glass head Ivy … continue reading
Along with much of the software industry, Microsoft is betting on Docker. The company announced a wide-ranging partnership with Docker back in October, as well as planned integrations with Windows Server and Microsoft Azure. Microsoft is in the process of following through on the Azure front, detailing the four steps needed to run an ASP.NET … continue reading
Samsung may or may not be in talks to buy BlackBerry. According to a Reuters report, Samsung recently approached BlackBerry with a buyout offer of as much as US$7.5 billion. The report stated that executives met last week to discuss the proposed deal. BlackBerry announced a security partnership with Samsung this past November, but for … continue reading
Accusoft, the leading provider of document, content and imaging solutions, announces today that it has released ImagXpress v13.1, an enhanced version of its software development kit (SDK) for empowering applications with selectable functions for scanning, image compression, viewing, annotation, printing and document cleanup. The new version can enable applications to reduce the size of PNG … continue reading
The Xen Project Collaborative Project hosted at The Linux Foundation today announced availability of Xen Project Hypervisor version 4.5. The latest release builds on Xen Project hypervisor’s ability to deliver the performance, quality, security and scalability that today’s large-scale and scale-out computing workloads demand. For x86-based solutions, improved cache monitoring technology provides faster processing and … continue reading
WANdisco, a leading provider of continuous-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data, announced today that it had contributed code to the Apache Hadoop open source project that enables changes to the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) to be undone automatically when a transaction is aborted. This new feature, referred to … continue reading
Organizations have been working toward the concept of the Internet of Everything, a world were the Internet of Things (IoT) devices connect with other devices. To move closer to that goal, Intel’s Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) unveiled a preview of IoTivity, an open-source software framework designed to provide connectivity for IoT devices. “The ability for … continue reading
The Django Software Foundation kept busy in 2014 by promoting, supporting and improving its open-source project, the Django Web framework. As the organization prepares for the upcoming year, it is looking to further its 2014 accomplishments. One of the biggest community achievements the foundation accomplished last year was the development of the Django Girls organization, … continue reading
Tech companies poaching employees from one another is a longstanding Silicon Valley scandal, but after several years of litigation, the poachers may finally be about to pay up. According to a report from Reuters, Adobe, Apple, Google and Intel have agreed to settle an antitrust class-action lawsuit filed in 2011 by 64,000 software engineers. After … continue reading
Firefox Hello, the WebRTC in-browser chat feature first included in Firefox 34, is now available to all with the launch of Firefox 35. The real-time communication feature allows users to start plug-in-free video chats within the browser in the form of a pop-up box, without the aid of a service such as Google Hangouts and … continue reading
Qubell, provider of an autonomic application management platform for cloud applications, today announced the availability of Qubell for Hadoop Developers. The new solution enables Hadoop developers to add dynamic, cloud-based test environments on-demand for new or existing big data analytics projects. As companies, particularly in retail, financial services and high-tech industries invest in big data … continue reading
This year will be the year the Internet of Things (IoT) makes it big, according to one survey, and with the Internet of Things will come a new world of user experience. Embarcadero Technologies has released the results from its Software for the Internet of Things Developer Survey, which revealed that three out of four … continue reading
