Progress today announced the next evolution of its Telerik® Platform offering, the only mobile development platform combining rich UI tools and cloud services to build compelling apps, regardless of operating system, device or technology. After a year on the market, the Telerik Platform offering has hit many major milestones, culminating in its latest release, which … continue reading
Until recently, SOASTA has been mainly focused on cloud testing solutions, but recent announcements from the company revealed a new direction. While SOASTA will continue to focus on its cloud-testing solutions, the company is working on making performance a more fundamental aspect to its portfolio. “Cloud testing has always been about performance,” said Brad Johnson, … continue reading
Members of the Future of Life Institute, a “research and outreach organization working to mitigate existential risks facing humanity,” has signed an open letter pledging to protect humankind from the dangers of artificial intelligence. The signatories, including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk, consist of programmers, scientists, and artificial intelligence researchers from universities and tech giants … continue reading
Perforce Software today announced the addition of powerful server clustering capabilities for its version management engine, further extending the performance and scalability of the Perforce version management platform. Introducing a more reliable and horizontally scalable architecture for global collaboration, the latest release brings greater scalability and a new high availability (HA) deployment topology. Additionally, a … continue reading
MongoDB announced today that the company has secured an additional $80 million in funding from prominent institutional investors and investment funds in December. A sovereign wealth fund led the round, with participation from Goldman Sachs and from existing investors Altimeter Capital, NEA, Sequoia and funds managed by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. MongoDB has attracted … continue reading
SOA Software, an API Management and Cloud Integration leader that helps businesses accelerate their digital transformation by securely extending their reach across multiple channels, today announced the latest release of API Management solution. The solution now provides the broadest support for API description languages including RAML, Swagger, WSDL, and WADL. With SOA Software’s API Management platform’s support for multiple … continue reading
Syncfusion, Inc., the developer solutions company of choice, announces the release of their free Essential Studio Enterprise Edition Community License. The license, which is valued at up to $9,975, provides individual and small business developers access to the most comprehensive development toolkit on the market at no cost. All products available in Essential Studio Enterprise … continue reading
BZ Media LLC today announced its opening keynote at Wearables TechCon, the technology event that is like a CES for OEMs and developers, with Dr. Qaizar Hassonjee, Vice President of Innovations, Adidas Wearable Sports Electronics, The three-day conference, March 9 – 11, will feature the keynote at 9:45 am on Monday, March 9. Additionally, Wearables … continue reading
A group of researchers from the University of Alberta have created an unbeatable poker program that they say marks a milestone in artificial intelligence and game theory. “AI researchers have a long, long history of using games as a test bed for our artificial intelligence research,” said Michael Johanson, Ph.D. student in the department of … continue reading
The Apache Software Foundation has announced Apache Flink as a Top-Level Project (TLP). Flink is an open-source Big Data system that fuses processing and analysis of both batch and streaming data. The data-processing engine, which offers APIs in Java and Scala as well as specialized APIs for graph processing, is presented as an alternative to … continue reading
SoftFluent announced today that CodeFluent Entities and its graphical editor supports Visual Studio 2015 Preview, which contains many new and exciting features to support cross-platform mobile development, web & cloud development and more. CodeFluent Entities allows developers to generate components such as scripts (e.g., T-SQL, PL/SQL, MySQL, PgSQL), code (e.g., C#, VB), web services (e.g. … continue reading
Microsoft isn’t happy about Google’s disclosure of a zero-day vulnerability in Windows 8.1, and the company has publicly voiced its displeasure. In a blog post entitled “A Call for Better Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure,” senior director of Microsoft’s Security Response Center Chris Betz admonished Google for disclosing the vulnerability only two days before Microsoft was scheduled … continue reading
