Accusoft today announces a new release of the Barcode Xpress Mobile software development kits for iOS and Android devices. Enhancements in the new release include read performance and accuracy improvements for several important barcode types and compatibility with new environments. Developers rely on Barcode Xpress Mobile to build mobile apps that tap the cameras in … continue reading
Microsoft wants to kill the password in Windows 10. As part of its upcoming operating system release, Microsoft announced it will introduce a new biometric security technology called Windows Hello, allowing users to unlock their Windows 10 devices by scanning their face, iris or fingerprint. Windows 10 PCs will ship later this year with Intel’s … continue reading
It’s been a few years since hardware makers found it fashionable to sell computers directly to the developer. Workstations were mainstay devices for developers in the 1980s and 1990s, but the turn of the millennium brought with it a preference toward generic PCs for development machines. NVIDIA is hoping to change this with the Digits … continue reading
Microservices can be seen as neurons in the brain, controlled by a cortex that provides processing context to the service. That’s the vision of Nashua, N.H.-based startup Pneuron (the p is silent), which has created a platform that interacts with underlying data and application systems, without the need for upfront, heavyweight aggregation and query writing. … continue reading
The Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation has announced version 1.0 of its CPU/GPU specification, designed to provide a common framework for developers to create applications to run across PCs, mobile devices, servers, consoles and the Internet of Things running different processors. HSA 1.0 lays out standard guidelines for how “kernel agents” such as GPUs, DSPs … continue reading
WaveMaker Inc., a leading enterprise application Platform-as-a-Service (aPaaS) software company, today announced the WaveMaker DevPortal (an integrated Developer Portal), as an addition to its industry-first RAADD (Rapid API Application Development and Deployment) platform enabling publishing, sharing, discovery, and consumption of APIs within an enterprise. The WaveMaker DevPortal allows developers to easily discover and consume REST … continue reading
SOASTA, the leader in performance analytics, today announced the release of mPulse Pro, a new addition to the company’s mPulse product line that provides self-service access to enterprise-level Real User Monitoring (RUM) capabilities for as low as $99 per month. The new solution joins the free forever mPulse Lite and the unlimited mPulse Enterprise, providing multiple … continue reading
RhodeCode, a leading player in the enterprise software development market, today announced RhodeCode Enterprise 3, a next-generation source code management system for the enterprise. RhodeCode Enterprise 3 is the only source code management solution that addresses the developer’s preference for choice and flexibility by supporting all major version control systems, Git, Mercurial and Subversion, while … continue reading
AppDynamics, the leading application intelligence company, today announced that its Application Intelligence Platform will support applications designed for the new Apple Watch. This includes real-time monitoring and analytics support for the WatchKit extension that controls the Apple Watch’s user interface and responses to user interactions. With the tools available in the AppDynamics Application Intelligence Platform, … continue reading
Sencha, a leading provider of HTML5 desktop and mobile web application development technology, today announced that it has merged its flagship Sencha Ext JS and Sencha Touch web application development frameworks into Sencha Ext JS 6.0. The release is in response to growing demand from enterprise developers charged with extending web applications from the desktop … continue reading
A war of words has ensued since Linux kernel developer Christoph Hellwig and the Software Freedom Conservancy filed a lawsuit against VMware over GPLv2 compliance in the company’s ESXi line of enterprise hypervisor operating system products. Expanding upon its initial statement challenging the validity of the lawsuit, VMware has issued a lengthy public statement. In … continue reading
OpenJDK 9 doesn’t yet have a set release date, but the project is continuing apace. With project Jigsaw as the headliner of the effort, the developers working on OpenJDK 9 have been tweezing apart the bits and pieces of Java to make the platform more modular overall. Project Jigsaw is no small effort. At JavaOne … continue reading
