Alcatel-Lucent has today launched Rapport, a software-based, open platform that gives large enterprises and service providers a new, and much more flexible way to deliver communications and collaboration services. With Rapport, the communications network becomes a platform for innovation, enabling the creation of new ‘contextual communications’, where fundamental services such as voice, chat, video conferencing … continue reading
Kony, Inc., the leading enterprise mobility company and SOASTA, the leader in performance analytics, today announced a partnership that combines both companies’ capabilities to optimize the performance of enterprise mobile apps across the mobile application development lifecycle. Through this partnership, Kony and SOASTA will work together to integrate their technologies and combine their expertise to … continue reading
ActiveState today announced a new partnership and technology integration with Mirantis, enabling developers to deploy applications to the cloud in minutes. With the arrival of this joint solution from Mirantis and ActiveState, enterprises now have easier access to the best-in-cloud technologies of Cloud Foundry and OpenStack, delivered in a robust, feature-packed turnkey hybrid cloud solution. … continue reading
Qoppa Software, a leading producer of PDF software, announces version 10 of PDF Studio, their powerful, easy to use PDF editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. PDF Studio 10 adds a number of new features including PDF Optimization, Overlay Comparison, Conversion to HTML5 and Touch Mode. The new Optimizer function provides many options … continue reading
MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, today announced the integration of its utility-grade Hadoop distribution architected for real-time, data-centric enterprises with Teradata QueryGrid, providing best-in-class big data analytics across multiple data sets with a single query. “With tightly integrated software from MapR and Teradata, organizations can create an ‘as-it-happens’ business … continue reading
Dropbox has announced a new bug bounty program to encourage participation from the security research community in fortifying the cloud file sharing and storage platform. As part of a joint bug bounty program with HackerOne, Dropbox will offer vulnerability disclosure rewards as an incentive for researchers to report bugs. The minimum bounty offered for qualifying … continue reading
Six months after announcing its split into two separate companies, HP has introduced the new branding identity for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. HP Enterprise, which is run by current CEO Meg Whitman, will be made up of HP’s existing server, storage, networking and software service offerings with a focus on cloud, Big Data and mobile solutions. … continue reading
Syncfusion, Inc., the developer solutions company of choice, today announced the release of Essential Studio 2015 Volume 1, the first major release of 2015. The release features expanded offerings for Xamarin, new controls and updates for JavaScript, ASP.NET, and WPF, and a presentation library for reading, writing, converting, and rasterizing PowerPoint files. The highlights of … continue reading
Infragistics, a worldwide leader in desktop, Web, and mobile user interface toolsets, today announced the launch of Infragistics Ultimate 15.1. This release includes new UI controls and enhancements that promise to improve the overall development experience, with an emphasis on cross-platform mobile experiences as well as making it easier for users to migrate their applications … continue reading
Google is introducing a new program in order to help developers find families on Google Play. With Designed for Families, developers can designate their age appropriate apps and games as family-friendly. In order for apps to be eligible for Designed for Families they must meet a couple requirements such as app display ads are child … continue reading
Microsoft has announced it has acquired mobile business intelligence and data visualization provider Datazen Software. With Datazen, Microsoft will bolster its Power BI strategy to provide organizations with accessible data tools they can use on any device, anywhere. According to Microsoft, companies need an easier way to gain insight into their data and Datazen is … continue reading
The biicode open-source dependency manager for C and C++ has announced it will become an open-source project. The dependency manager, consisting of a client installed in the user’s machine and a cloud populated with C and C++ libraries and frameworks, has released its source code as part of a programmatic open-source roadmap. “One of the … continue reading
Ubuntu has published a retrospective and roadmap of its UI Toolkit (UITK), detailing its various releases and plans going forward. Summaries of the 14.04-15.04 releases can be found in the retrospective. The roadmap for upcoming Ubuntu UITK releases is as follows: 15.10-1.3 release: The upcoming cycle the focus is on convergence, with an emphasis on … continue reading
The software component vendor Text Control announced the immediate availability of its latest version X12 for all platforms including ASP.NET, Windows Forms, WPF and ActiveX. The HTML5-based, cross-browser web editor has been extended with full drag and drop support. MS Word DOC, DOCX, RTF and image files can be directly dropped into the editor and … continue reading
