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
JetBrains, a leading maker of smart tools for Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, .NET and other languages, empowers C and C++ developers with two new tools: CLion, a stand-alone cross-platform IDE; and ReSharper C++, a productivity extension for Visual Studio. The two tools target overlapping but different groups of C/C++ developers, since CLion is a stand-alone … continue reading
Hortonworks, the leading contributor to and provider of enterprise Apache Hadoop, today announced a series of cloud deployment, operations, security, data governance and user experience advancements aimed at making Apache Hadoop ubiquitous across mainstream enterprises. These advancements reinforce Hortonworks’ dedication to provide enterprises with a complete enterprise Hadoop platform entirely in open source. “The first … continue reading
Altiar full-service cloud-based enterprise content management (ECM) optimized for Microsoft Azure and dtSearch, a leader in enterprise and developer text retrieval products, announce the integration of dtSearch’s core developer product, the dtSearch Engine into the Altiar platform. A cloud-based service (public or private), Altiar includes rapid setup and limitless scalability and storage. The Altair platform … continue reading
Ravello Systems today announced the beta launch of Inception: the only way to run nested VMware ESXi on AWS or Google Cloud, and an industry-first in the virtualization and cloud world. Ravello’s new offering significantly helps the VMware customer base and ecosystem by enabling multi-node VMware ESXi lab environments on demand – for development, testing, … continue reading
QASymphony, the leader in software testing for agile enterprise, announced updates to its product suite today that accelerates its leadership position in the agile testing and data visualization market. The release includes updates to the company’s popular test case management tool, qTest, and exploratory testing tool, eXplorer. “As an agile company, we are constantly iterating … continue reading
SOASTA, the leader in performance analytics, today reported record growth of the CloudTest community, exceeding 30,000 registered users of the CloudTest platform in Q1 2015. SOASTA also announced widespread adoption of its Web and mobile testing solutions, with more than 1,600 customers completing more than 285,000 tests using CloudTest during the quarter. This rapid growth … continue reading
Riverbed Technology, the leader in application performance infrastructure, today announced the launch of Riverbed SteelCentral Portal, a breakthrough software solution for managing application performance in today’s hybrid IT environments. For the first time, companies are able to blend performance information from network, end user experience, and application domains into a simple source of truth for … continue reading
RethinkDB, an open-source scalable database for the realtime web, today announced that RethinkDB 2.0 is now available. Version 2.0 will contain options for commercial support, improved performance and stability and is the company’s first production-ready release. RethinkDB 2.0 is designed to make building and scaling realtime apps dramatically easier for developers everywhere by utilizing a … continue reading
Mendix and Pivotal today announced a partnership that brings Mendix’s no-code, rapid application development capabilities to Pivotal Cloud Foundry, the leading enterprise Platform as a Service (PaaS), based on Cloud Foundry. The partnership helps accelerate CIOs’ journey to modern IT by enabling business users to rapidly build applications with Mendix’s visual tools and easily deploy … continue reading