Microsoft has officially announced its acquisition of Sunrise, developer of a next-generation Android and iOS calendar app. “We are making this acquisition because we believe a reinvention in the way people use calendars on mobile devices is long overdue. Our goal is to better help people manage and make the most of their time in … continue reading
SmartBear Software, the choice of more than two million software professionals for building and delivering the world’s best applications, has made two major enhancements to Collaborator, the only tool available that allows peer review of code, user stories, test plans, Excel files and other documentation. The new JSON API functionality allows integrations with other products … continue reading
Mesosphere, creators of the Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System (DCOS) for managing datacenter and cloud resources at scale, and MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, today announced Myriad, the first resource management framework that allows Apache YARN jobs to run alongside other applications and services in enterprise and cloud datacenters. Based … continue reading
Cloudera, the leader in enterprise analytic data management powered by Apache Hadoop™, and Cask, the pioneer empowering developers for Hadoop, announced today that they have entered into a strategic business and deep technology collaboration agreement, including an equity investment from Cloudera. Together the two open source leaders will drive a roadmap of joint product innovation between … continue reading
Sencha, a leading provider of HTML5 desktop and mobile web application development technology, today announced the release of Sencha Space 1.3, an upgrade to its breakthrough platform for securely deploying, managing and analyzing business applications. Space 1.3 builds upon the product’s innovative cross-platform capabilities to deliver a complete web application management solution that simplifies the … continue reading
Logentries, the leading log management and analytics service built for the cloud, today announced a new Logging Container built for Docker 1.5 featuring easy collection and analysis of container-level stats and system-level log data. The new Logentries Container features Docker’s new Stats API and addresses existing challenges with logging on Docker, enabling easy access to collecting and … continue reading
Facebook is trying to combat the threat of malware and security through collaboration. The company just announced ThreatExchange, an API-based platform designed for organizations to share security threat information. The idea for ThreatExchange manifested about a year ago through a discussion about a botnet causing a malware attack across a group of technology companies’ services. … continue reading
Japanese enterprise technology company Hitachi has announced its plans to acquire Big Data analytics company Pentaho. Hitachi will add Pentaho’s open-source Big Data deployment platform to its portfolio, eventually merging Pentaho’s Big Data analysis and machine-learning capabilities into its Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) products. According to Hitachi’s announcement, the company’s plans for a shared analytics … continue reading
Code.org announced its Hour of Code campaign has eclipsed 100 million hours, measured by the time students have spent taking the free programming courses and tutorials offered online. The total dates back to the program’s beginning back in June 2013. The organization also announced the number of lines of code written has surpassed 5 billion … continue reading
Applitools, developer of cloud-based Automated Visual Testing solution Applitools Eyes, announces today the launch of Applitools Eyes Express: 1-Click visual testing solution that detects UI and visual layout bugs on any given webpage. Applitools Eyes Express requires no coding, nor any additional test scripts, and provides accurate UI validation instantly. Automated visual testing is the … continue reading
The Cloud Foundry Foundation was formed in early December of 2014, and already it has found a leader. Sam Ramji was announced as the new director of the Cloud Foundry Foundation this morning. Ramji said that he plans to run the Foundation like a startup. He said that the companies signed on to support Cloud … continue reading
There’s a peculiar trend taking shape in the coding world, as one of the fastest growing professions finds scores of new programmers joining its ranks each year. These young programming Padawans seek wisdom, and half-joking, half-serious programming proverbs have become a popular delivery mechanism. Last summer, we covered Programmer’s Proverbs, a GitHub repository launched by … continue reading
