Appmobi today announced the launch of Appmobi Protection Center, a mobile security solution that detects and resolves attacks at an app level. Appmobi Protection Center was built to defend against threats like code injections, login attempts, and reverse engineering, the company said. The protection center gives IT teams the ability to define actionable rules so … continue reading
Veracode announced Developer Sandbox today, a new feature that allows developers and security risk teams to have more control over their application security processes. With this feature, developers can review security processes early in the development life cycle, and they have the ability to scan full applications or components as they write them. This allows … continue reading
Yelp is currently revamping its API based on developer feedback, and today it is giving developers a preview as to what it has been working on. According to the company, the API will feature two new capabilities: autocomplete and transaction search. Both are designed to help improve its user experience. In addition, the company is … continue reading
After a computer error that caused major problems for the Securities and Exchange Commission, Citigroup Global Markets has agreed to pay US$7 million as a penalty. The computer coding error was in the software that Citigroup used from May 1999 to April 2014 to process the SEC’s requests for blue sheet data. This data included … continue reading
Text Control has released a web API-powered reporting platform that helps teams create Microsoft Word-compatible reports in the cloud. The platform is called Text Control ReportingCloud, and it takes complete TX Text Control reporting functionality into the cloud, making it accessible for all platforms or languages that developers use. In order to make it accessible, … continue reading
It was December 2015 when Ruby on Rails announced the first beta release of Rails 5.0, and yesterday, after four betas, two release candidates, and hundreds of contributors, Rails 5.0 is finally done. One of the most important features of this release is Action Cable, a new framework that handles WebSockets in Rails. Action Cable … continue reading
When chat apps or other websites critical to getting a day’s work done experience an outage, panic sets in. Today, some teams were feeling the stress when Slack briefly had connectivity issues, and its API requests were responding with errors, making it behave slowly. Ironically, some users were not even able to access Slack’s status … continue reading
There is an overabundance of devices entering the market. With these devices comes the challenge of getting them all to talk to one another, and with purpose. The Internet of Things creates a bigger challenge for developers, who need to bridge the gap between the devices themselves and the analytics of data centers. To address … continue reading
A platform that allows developers to build, train and deploy chatbots was released into public beta this week. The company behind these chatbots is called Motion AI. It allows anyone to create bots that are designed like a flowchart, using only as many branches as their project requires. Motion AI’s launch for bot deployment includes … continue reading
As a way to compete with the other voice assistants, sources say that Apple will allow software developers to connect their apps to Siri for the first time, according to a report with Fortune. Another report with The Information tech news website said that Apple might even create a device that is similar to the … continue reading
Software companies are always trying to figure out how they can better provide information to a specific group of people, and the agribusiness industry is no exception. The challenge for agribusiness, though, lies in the robust data that is collected and how developers can access this data to develop new applications for farmers and agriculture … continue reading
Apple has created a new section of its App Store for developers so they can share how they succeeded on it, and to show other developers what they have learned in the process. On Developer Insights, the section of the App Store designed for developers, there is a planning section that helps developers plan and … continue reading
