Google is responding to reports that the company has plans to bring its PC operating system, Chrome OS, to Android, and its answer is clear: Chrome OS is not going anywhere. “Over the last few days, there’s been some confusion about the future of Chrome OS and Chromebooks based on speculation that Chrome OS will … continue reading
Chef is aiming at building out an entire life-cycle-management platform for provisioned systems. Today, the company announced the general availability of Chef Delivery, as well as a new product called Chef Compliance, which includes the fruits of its acquisition of VulcanoSec, a German software security firm. Chef Delivery has been available to select users since … continue reading
Today, CliQr, the leading application-defined cloud management platform provider, introduces new CloudCenter features that help developer and operations (DevOps) teams simplify and streamline deployment of any application to any data center, public or private cloud. Its unique, integrated continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) Project Board unifies the management of users, deployments and environments across … continue reading
SmartBear Software, the leader in software quality tools for the connected world, announced a new version of TestComplete that redefines how functional and performance testing is done with script reuse. One of the world’s most recognized automated testing tools, TestComplete is now integrated with LoadComplete, SmartBear’s popular load testing solution for websites, mobile and Web … continue reading
JetBrains has announced simultaneous updates for all of its desktop tools, along with a new subscription-based licensing model for those products. Updates include: ReSharper Ultimate 10: With a new incremental build tool, the Postfix Templates plug-in, enhanced code style management, improved Stack Trace Explorer, NUnit 3.0 beta 5 support, Google Protocol Buffers support, and new … continue reading
A new narrative-driven VR experience for the Oculus Rift allows users to embody an office worker in the North Tower of New York’s World Trade Center during the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001. But a lot of negativity surrounds the big question: Who would want to live or relive 9/11? Students at a French … continue reading
DJI is giving developers a new tool for developing drone applications. The company announced the DJI Manifold, a high-performance embedded computer designed to fly. Manifold takes advantage of DJI’s Onboard SDK and provides a user-friendly system. “With the Manifold, we are entering a new era of smarter, faster and more powerful aerial platforms,” said Michael … continue reading
Microsoft wants everyone to get on board with Windows 10, and to do so it is allowing users to build universal Windows apps without any code. The company announced the Windows App Studio Windows 10 Store Support release with a number of features to build apps without programming. “You’ve been thinking about building an app … continue reading
Babel 6.0.0 has been released for the JavaScript community, adding tools for the entire community to build upon. According to its blog, the biggest change is that Babel has been restructured to be as “modular as possible,” and its transformers have been rewritten as plug-ins using the same API. Overall, the language processing is easier … continue reading
Dynamsoft today announced version 4.0 of its Barcode Reader software development kit (SDK), which has added a PDF rasterizer to decode 1D and 2D barcodes from PDF documents. The updated SDK has also expanded its list of supported barcode symbols. The expanded barcode symbol support now includes 2D barcode decoding of DATAMATRIX and PDF417 standards. … continue reading
IBM announced today that IBM Streaming Analytics and IBM Message Hub are now available as services on IBM Cloud. Based on the widely-used Apache Kafka messaging engine, these tools work together to make it easier for developers to integrate external data into their apps, as well as visualize and continuously analyze this data. Both services will … continue reading
Pivotal, the company accelerating digital transformation for enterprises, today announced a new release of Pivotal Cloud Foundry, the comprehensive Cloud Native platform that unifies the software delivery process with an integrated application framework, platform runtime, and infrastructure automation. Pivotal Cloud Foundry now includes expanded support for Spring Cloud Services, Microsoft Azure, .NET applications, Docker images, … continue reading
