Google has announced Chrome will start de-emphasizing Flash in favor of HTML5 as a way to speed up the web and save battery life. According to the company’s blog, “90% of Flash on the web loads behind the scenes to support page analytics,” causing the plugin to slows things down. Starting in September, Chrome 53 … continue reading
Hortonworks announced today that it has updated its Hortonworks DataFlow (HDF) platform with new features and updated Apache projects. HDF 2.0 includes a drastically redesigned Apache NiFi project, better handling of cluster-wide security policies, and a more portable version of its dataflow management layer. Apache NiFi is at the top of the list of changes. … continue reading
Good programmers write good code, but great programmers DO steal. And reuse. And recycle. And this can often include recycling the bad along with the good. Bad example: Let’s look at some (in)famous virus examples. We all know that Stuxnet, DuQu, Flame, and Gauss were related in core code elements. All four have been described … continue reading
Sharing servers can be as easy as sharing pictures and videos on social media platforms. ScaleFT, Packet, and CoreOS have joined together to show developers just how easy this is, allowing them to log into a cloud server as they would with other applications. The organizations launched a sharing server experiment on August 7, International Friends … continue reading
After being on hiatus for about nine years, the Vintage Computer Festival (VCF) made its way back to the West Coast this past weekend. This was the 11th festival on the West Coast, but had the festival not been on hiatus, it would have been the 19th West Coast event. Other Vintage Computer Festivals are … continue reading
The White House and the federal government is keeping the commitment to open-source software it made earlier this year. The White House has announced the Federal Source Code policy. The policy is designed to help make custom-developed source code created for the federal government easily accessible to all federal agencies. In addition to the policy, … continue reading
Software analytics leader New Relic, Inc.(NYSE:NEWR) today unveiled New Relic Infrastructure, a new monitoring solution designed to provide deep, real-time visibility into a company’s dynamic cloud and hybrid infrastructure and integrate seamlessly with New Relic’s application performance solutions. New Relic Infrastructure enables correlation of performance metrics and configuration changes to the infrastructure, enabling modern IT … continue reading
MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry’s only Converged Data Platform, today announced an equity financing of $50 million. The additional funding accompanies yet another consecutive record quarter. The company continued to advance at a rapid pace in Q2, with more than a 100 percent increase in bookings over prior year. Licenses and support agreements … continue reading
The Windows 10 Anniversary Update has finally arrived, and with it comes a number of new features for the company’s Internet of Things (IoT) development platform. The Windows 10 IoT Core is a version of Microsoft’s operating system that targets small and embedded devices. “Windows 10 IoT Core brings the power of Windows to your … continue reading
Flowroute Inc., the leading provider of advanced calling and messaging services for SaaS companies, today introduced its Flowroute Communication Application Program. This program will help developers accelerate time-to-market, reduce development costs, and remove the barriers of delivering carrier-grade messaging capabilities within their applications and services. The first three application modules, written in Python, include phone … continue reading
According to multiple reports, Apple has acquired artificial intelligence startup Turi for roughly US$200 million. Apple uses AI technology for Siri, but lately the company has been ramping up its efforts in AI, which makes purchasing the Seattle-based company Turi a helpful move, according to Market Watch. Turi aims to help developers and data scientists build intelligent apps … continue reading
Qualitia, the leader in script-less test automation, has unveiled the brand new 3.11 release of its award-winning test automation platform. The new release promises to provide many features which will help QA engineers in faster creation and execution of automation tests – promising a 300-500% productivity improvement. With this release, organizations using Qualitia can achieve … continue reading
