Developers will be getting their hands on new virtual reality headsets this holiday season. This week, Rift SDK 1.0 is shipping with early builds of final Rift hardware for the Oculus headset, so developers can get ready for their launch title. If a developer is shipping a Rift title in the first quarter, they will … continue reading
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is penalizing Oracle for leaving millions of computers vulnerable to hacking. As a result, Oracle will be required to give consumers an easy solution to uninstall insecure and older versions of its Java Standard Edition (Java SE) software. According to the FTC, when Oracle acquired Java back in 2010, it … continue reading
Cortana has been pulled out from the Google Play Store because saying “Hey Cortana” was causing problems for the microphone of several Android devices. The saying was interfering with Google Now’s “Ok Google” feature, according to Android Community. It’s not determined yet if the microphone problems are the sole cause of the removal of the … continue reading
It’s been a year of open-source projects. Both enterprises and startups have been releasing their code into the wild as a way to grow their capabilities. It’s not just the code that’s important; it’s the programmers and contributors that can get their hands on it, alter it, fix it, and make it better. For some … continue reading
DreamFactory Software, the creators of the fast-growing open source DreamFactory REST API backend, announced the release of DreamFactory Enterprise. A new commercial software package, DreamFactory Enterprise gives users the ability to easily deploy, manage and transport multiple instances of DreamFactory across the entire application development lifecycle. Designed for enterprise development and IT teams, software development … continue reading
Codeship, a hosted continuous integration service for testing and deploying code, today announced integration with Amazon EC2 Container Registry (Amazon ECR), a fully-managed service for storing, managing, and deploying Docker container images. This latest integration extends Codeship’s ability to support AWS customers that use Docker. “This integration with Amazon ECR is central to our continuous … continue reading
Apple and Ericsson are putting an end to their longstanding patent dispute. The companies have signed a global patent license agreement to settle the litigation. The two companies have been fighting for almost three years over patents and royalties since Apple’s global license agreement with Ericsson expired. According to Ericsson, Apple was using Ericsson’s technology … continue reading
Industries are continuing to embrace the data-driven world, and Microsoft recently took another step in that direction by acquiring Metanautix, a technology company with a vision to integrate the data supply chain. Microsoft noticed that companies struggle to bring together various sources and silos of data, and they only use a small portion of the … continue reading
After a recent celebration of the 10th anniversary of Rails 1.0, Ruby on Rails announced the first beta release of Rails 5.0 on Friday. Rails 5.0 has a new framework for handling WebSockets, called Action Cable. It’s an integrated solution that includes an EventMachine-powered connection loop, a thread-backed channels layer for server-side processing, and a … continue reading
In the realm of patent assertion, there is one man who stands head and shoulders above the rest: Erich Spangenberg. Of the more than 1,600 companies he has sued for patent infringement in the past decade, the most recent is Atlassian. Not that you’d know it was Spangenberg doing the suing; the action comes from … continue reading
Microsoft is reportedly pushing back its Windows 10 Mobile release date. VentureBeat reported that Microsoft planned to start rolling out Windows 10 to existing Windows Phones this month, but those plans have changed to next year. “The Windows 10 Mobile upgrade will begin rolling out early next year to select existing Windows 8 and 8.1 … continue reading
SmartBear Software, the leader in software quality tools for the connected world, announced a partnership with one of the leading software testing companies, PFLB, a provider of solutions for test automation and performance testing for enterprises across North America and Russia. Both of these software quality management markets have been experiencing rapid growth, and in order … continue reading
