Google’s horizontally scalable, strongly consistent relational database service, Cloud Spanner, is now production ready. The company first introduced the solution in February of this year. Cloud Spanner is designed for mission-critical OLTP applications and enterprise databases. “Cloud Spanner also offers additional accuracy, reliability and performance in the form of a fully-managed cloud database service. Thanks … continue reading
Google has announced that Android Auto is now available in every car as a way to give drivers an easy way to access information they need. According to a blog post by Gerhard Schobbe, product manager at Android Auto, 200 car models from more than 50 brands support Android Auto. Since older vehicle models are … continue reading
Today Twilio announced the availability of Twilio Enterprise. With it, the company hopes to help large enterprises build and customize cloud communication solutions at scale, which will help enterprise developers who face challenges when building applications. The new capabilities are designed to support the security, access-management and administration requirements of enterprises building cloud communication solutions. … continue reading
Sencha wants to help developers and test automation engineers easily and rapidly test Ext JS applications for multiple devices and cross-browser compatibility. The company has announced the general availability of Sencha Test, a new product designed with easy-to-use unit- and functional-testing features. “This is a comprehensive solution that is available for the team to collaborate … continue reading
For developers who use tools to build desktop applications, there’s Sencha’s announcement of the availability of Sencha GXT 4, which now allows them to extend their desktop applications to tablet devices with little to no modification to the existing application codebase. Sencha GXT 4 is a comprehensive Java framework for building feature-rich applications, which Java … continue reading
The Web is ever changing. What was once a place where documents and information could be accessed has turned into a place where users can communicate verbally, visually and virtually, where users can play interactive games, and where users can stream music, movies and television shows. To keep up with these advanced features and capabilities, … continue reading
Oculus has announced the acquisition of Surreal Vision, a computer vision team that works on real-time 3D scene reconstruction. With Surreal Vision, Oculus will be able to create an accurate representation real-world objects in virtual worlds, according to the company. “At Surreal Vision, we are overhauling state-of-the-art 3D scene reconstruction algorithms to provide a rich, … continue reading
Sencha, a leading provider of HTML5 desktop and mobile application development technology, today announced the release of Sencha Space 1.2, its breakthrough platform for securely deploying and managing business applications. With new cross-platform features that empower enterprises to manage their applications and data across all of a user’s devices and screens—including desktops, tablets and smartphones—Space … continue reading
Asset managers and institutional investors all over the world, using different computers and browsers, rely on eVestment’s online data and analytics solutions to capitalize on global investment trends, select and monitor investment managers and enable asset managers to market their funds worldwide. At the beginning of 2012, we acquired two firms with the goal of … continue reading
Sencha finds a majority of survey respondents are working with HTML5 and plan to stick with it in 2014 … continue reading
Finding the app framework that best fits your needs requires a great deal of scrutiny … continue reading
A guide for those in search of a framework, depending on what kind of framework they want … continue reading
