Microsoft is dedicated to creating new holographic computing experiences, but it needs some outside help to get there. To do so, the company today announced the Microsoft HoloLens Academic Research request for proposals (RFP) for the academic community. “This emerging technology teems with opportunity, so we’ve issued this RFP to inspire the academic community to … continue reading
Microsoft is putting the finishing touches on Windows 10, and plans to wrap it up by this week, the Verge reports. According to the Verge, sources say that a release to manufacturing (RTM) build could be released this week. While Microsoft is working on its final copies of the operating system, Terry Myerson, the company’s … continue reading
Perforce Software today announced that it has released the source code for P4Eclipse and P4Java. Now available in the Perforce Workshop, the company’s open source community group, the tools allow users to better integrate the Perforce Helix software configuration management (SCM) and collaboration platform with their Java and Eclipse development workflows. P4Java and P4Eclipse are … continue reading
ZeroTurnaround, the maker of revolutionary developer tools for creating quality software nearly 20 percent faster, today announced that it has raised $5 million in Series B financing led by Bain Capital Ventures with participation from Western Technology Investment, both existing investors. This brings the total amount of funding since the company’s founding in 2007 to $15 … continue reading
LogiGear, a world leader in software test automation solutions, today announced the release of TestArchitect™ Professional for Visual Studio®. This new edition of TestArchitect seamlessly integrates with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) to simplify automated testing of Web and .NET apps on Windows. TestArchitect Professional for Visual Studio is … continue reading
CAST, a world leader in software analysis and measurement, has come to the rescue of CIOs being asked to squeeze more business value from existing IT systems to free up budget for strategic IT initiatives. Launched today, the latest version of CAST Highlight rapidly and affordably analyzes even the most complex portfolios of enterprise applications to identify … continue reading
A researcher from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has developed a new artificial intelligent user interface designed to simplify the detection and analysis of images. While computer vision technology for images has been popping up more recently, this new UI allows users to visualize, navigate and manipulate visual media. The system was created … continue reading
Pneuron and PubNub have announced new rounds of funding to help their companies grow. Pneuron, a company that focuses on application development and deployment with an emphasis on business value, announced a US$5 million Series B-1 round of funding from Safeguard Scientifics, Osage Partners and Scott Group LLC. This is the company’s latest funding round … continue reading
If you’ve been around this industry long enough, you likely recall a time when your manager came down to your office, large cardboard box in-hand, smiling like a boss that’s done good for his workers. The scenario likely played out as follows. Boss: Here, take this! (hands you the shiny box) You: What’s this? Boss: … continue reading
IBM is introducing new cognitive services for IBM Watson. The company announced IBM Watson Language Translation, IBM Speech to Text and IBM Text to Speech. “These cognitive speech and language services are open to anyone, enabling application developers and IBM’s growing ecosystem to develop and commercialize new cognitive computing solutions,” Jerome Pesenti, VP of Watson … continue reading
It may sound counter-intuitive to say that developers shouldn’t perform testing on the products they produce. After all, who knows a site or app better than those who created it? Aren’t developers exactly the people who should be testing software, given that they put it together and know how it’s supposed to work? It’s this … continue reading
For developers and enterprise teams, application life-cycle management in today’s development climate is an exercise in organized chaos. As movements such as agile, DevOps and Continuous Delivery have created more hybrid roles within a faster, more fluid application delivery cycle, there are new definitions of what each letter in the ALM acronym means. Applications have … continue reading
