Syncfusion, Inc., the developer solutions company of choice, announces the release of new mobile controls supporting Xamarin.Forms as part of Essential Studio for Xamarin, as well as an e-book on cross-platform mobile development, Xamarin.Forms Succinctly. Essential Studio for Xamarin provides unique Excel, Word, and PDF file format manipulation libraries and flexible data visualization components for … continue reading
The Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration today proposed a framework of regulations that would allow routine use of certain small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in today’s aviation system, while maintaining flexibility to accommodate future technological innovations. The FAA proposal offers safety rules for small UAS (under 55 pounds) conducting non-recreational operations. The rule would … continue reading
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6, featuring updates designed to serve as the foundation for building OpenStack-powered clouds for enterprise businesses with advanced cloud users, telecommunications companies, Internet service providers (ISPs), and public cloud hosting providers. Red … continue reading
Appcito, a cloud application delivery company, today launched its cloud-native Cloud Application Front End (CAFE) service, which unifies all the application delivery services—including load balancing, application security, continuous deployment, performance optimization, and application analytics and insights—needed for delivering both traditional and micro services-based applications. Purpose-built for the cloud and for today’s agile application operations teams, … continue reading
Saama Technologies, Inc., the leading pure-play analytics solutions company, today announced Fluid Analytics Engine, a highly flexible analytics technology that results in fast, measurable business outcomes exactly suited to meet customer needs. This allows companies to use advanced analytics for competitive advantages in days or weeks as opposed to months or quarters, in even the … continue reading
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 … continue reading
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 … continue reading
Hortonworks, the leading contributor to and provider of Apache Hadoop, today announced it has signed an agreement with Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS) to jointly promote and support Hadoop. The agreement enables HDS to deliver Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), the industry’s only 100-percent open source data platform powered by Apache Hadoop, to Hitachi’s enterprise customers. … continue reading
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 … continue reading
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 … continue reading
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 … continue reading
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 … continue reading
