Google is enabling developers to use their own encryption keys on its cloud platform. The company recently announced that Customer-Supplied Encryption Keys for Google Compute Engine, which allows developers to bring their own encryption key to encrypt resources, is in beta. “You create and hold the keys, you determine when data is active or at … continue reading
Embarcadero Technologies, a leading provider of software solutions for application and database development, today unveiled BeaconFence, an indoor/outdoor beacon-based user location and zone management solution for developers. Embarcadero’s BeaconFence solution enables developers and ISVs (independent software vendors) to easily add interactive user and device proximity support to iOS, Android, Windows, and OS X applications. While … continue reading
Dynamsoft has updated the web version of its document scanning software development kit (SDK) to add HTML5 support for IE on Windows and mainstream browsers on Mac platforms. The updated Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK is now version 11. For Windows, the added HTML5 support is for Internet Explorer (IE) 10 and 11. For Mac, the … continue reading
Alpha Software Corporation today announced the beta launch of new capabilities in the Alpha Anywhere mobile application development and deployment environment which will allow enterprises to quickly develop offline-enabled tablet-optimized forms for workers who primarily work standing up and moving around. Recent research estimates the number of these workers worldwide to be 2.5 billion. The … continue reading
Parasoft Virtualize 9.9, Parasoft SOAtest 9.9, and Parasoft Environment Manager 2.7 introduce a host of new capabilities that help dev/test teams rapidly create and evolve intelligent tests for continuous testing. Parasoft’s solution was recently recognized in the April 17, 2015 report, The Forrester Wave: Modern Application Functional Test Automation Tools, Q2, 2015. Forrester selected Parasoft … continue reading
Regina Dugan, former director of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, paced the stage, about to unveil a dizzying array of technologies developed by her new employer, Google’s Advanced Technology and Project group (ATAP). But first, attendees at the 2015 Google I/O conference needed a little background. “We’ve been talking about wearables for two … continue reading
Researchers from MIT’s department of mechanical engineering are working on improving object recognition for robots. The researchers have developed a monocular Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) object recognition system designed to provide better performance than traditional object recognition methods. “The goal is for a robot to build a map, and [to] use that map to … continue reading
It’s that time of year again: Black Hat and Defcon are upon us! That means your systems are all in danger, and your applications should be afraid. Not only will there be (and has already been) an endless stream of new exploits dropped at the shows, but the weekend of Defcon is, effectively, open season … continue reading
Researchers say they have found the biggest Android security flaws known to date. The vulnerabilities, nestled inside Android’s media playback library Stagefright, are said to affect 950 million Android devices, which amounts to 95% of them. Mobile security researcher Joshua J. Drake, vice president of platform research and exploitation at Zimperium zLabs, discovered the vulnerabilities … continue reading
The consumer mobility market has experienced massive growth, largely driven by the sale of smartphones, which topped 1.2 billion units sold globally in 2014, an increase of 28% from 2013. This consumer adoption subsequently drove the Bring Your Own Device movement, as employees demanded the right to bring their own mobile devices into their workplaces. … continue reading
Samsung open-source JavaScript Internet of Things engine Samsung has open-sourced JerryScript, a JavaScript engine for the Internet of Things. JerryScript is designed to run on microcontrollers and other Internet of Things devices with constrained RAM and ROM space. The engine supports on-device code compilation and execution, and provides access to peripherals from JavaScript. The project … continue reading
Builds are taking less and less time, according to a new SD Times poll of its readers. In a software development life cycle relying increasingly on automated build tools with an emphasis on speed, full production software builds have gone from taking hours and days to minutes and seconds. In our recent poll, 35% of … continue reading
