Amazon has announced it will, along with other investing companies, invest up to US$100 million to fund voice-based technology innovation. The Alexa Fund, named after the digital assistant service in the Amazon Echo device, will invest in people and companies developing hardware products that would benefit from Alexa’s voice interface; new features and functionality for … continue reading
GitHub has announced version 1.0 of its open-source programmable text editor, Atom. The latest release comes with improved performance, stability, feature set and modularity. “Until now, work has largely gone into defining the 1.0 foundation. Now that the foundation is stable, we can shift our efforts to reaching the full potential of the platform,” wrote … continue reading
FOVE has announced Samsung Ventures has invested in its virtual reality headset to help strengthen and advance its development. The news follows FOVE’s successful Kickstarter project, which raised more than US$450,000. “With this new investment and from our Kickstarter community, we will work diligently in making FOVE development possible on a larger scale,” said Yuka … continue reading
SOASTA, the leader in performance analytics, has announced an update to its award-winning RUM solution: mPulse 55. mPulse is the only RUM solution that supports Single Page Applications built with AngularJS, Backbone and Ember, the most popular Single Page Application (SPA) web development frameworks for modern web developers. Single page apps are rising to prominence because … continue reading
Couchbase, Inc. today announced massive momentumfor its NoSQL mobile products including more than 100,000 developers in its community, adoption by large enterprises and a rapidly growing eco-system of systems integrators and resellers. Since its introduction in May 2014, Couchbase Mobile, has powered the transition to the next phase of mobile app development: a new generation … continue reading
We live in an era that is largely dominated by mobile-based applications. This rapid growth of apps on mobile platforms can be largely attributed to the presence of several mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, phablets and wearables on the market. Each of these devices has distinct hardware and software configurations, which leads to the … continue reading
To help businesses succeed in building and deploying Dockerized distributed applications, Docker has announced new monthly subscription-based commercial solutions that aim to provide users with flexibility and support. “Since its launch at DockerCon SF last June, Docker Hub has attracted hundreds of thousands of users and tens of thousands of organizations,” said Ben Golub, CEO … continue reading
Canonical has introduced the Fan, an overlay network system in Ubuntu for containers on Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine. The Fan is a free scalable address-expansion mechanism for both application-centric containers such as Docker or Rocket, or full-machine containers such as LXD, according to an announcement from Dustin Kirkland of Canonical’s Ubuntu product … continue reading
Neotys, a leader in load testing and performance monitoring tools for web and mobile applications, today announced NeoSense 1.1, an enhanced version of its synthetic monitoring solution for application performance and availability. The release of NeoSense 1.1, available with a free trial, adds powerful new capabilities for web and mobile applications to quickly create realistic … continue reading
Progress today announced the Q2 release of Telerik DevCraft suite, the most complete end-to-end toolset for professional .NET developers. With the latest release, Telerik, a Progress Company, continues to push forward innovations to improve the speed, productivity and agility of its 1.7M strong developer community, offering a major competitive edge to those who want to … continue reading
HackerOne, the vulnerability management and bug bounty platform, today announced a Series B financing of $25 million led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA). The round includes participation from existing investors, including Benchmark, as well as numerous angel investors including Salesforce Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff, Digital Sky Technologies Founder Yuri Milner, Dropbox CEO and Co-Founder … continue reading
Monaca, the HTML5 hybrid app development platform, is releasing additions to its core development platform with local syncing and integration to the Cordova command line. Monaca Localkit allows developers to bring projects into any local development environment but still sync back to the cloud as needed. They can mix and match dev tools. Monaca CLI … continue reading
