Apple and Microsoft both have reported earnings from their latest financial quarters. Apple posted quarterly revenue of US$49.6 billion, with a profit of $10.7 billion, growing its revenue by 33% year-over-year. Microsoft reported revenue of $22.2 billion, but with a net loss of $3.2 billion due to the $7.5 billion accounting charge stemming from the … continue reading
The release of Windows 10 is still about two weeks away, but the company has already made public its universal app store ahead of launch. The store features apps for phones, tablets, PCs and the Xbox. Developers can build and test Windows 10 apps for the universal app store with Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform. The … continue reading
Microsoft has announced the Windows 10 Application Deployment tool (WinAppDeployCmd) in the latest release of its Windows 10 SDK preview. WinAppDeployCmd is a standalone tool designed to enable users to deploy universal Windows apps from a Windows 10 PC to a Windows 10 mobile device, according to the company. In addition, users can use it … continue reading
Microsoft is putting the finishing touches on Windows 10, and plans to wrap it up by this week, the Verge reports. According to the Verge, sources say that a release to manufacturing (RTM) build could be released this week. While Microsoft is working on its final copies of the operating system, Terry Myerson, the company’s … continue reading
IBM is introducing new cognitive services for IBM Watson. The company announced IBM Watson Language Translation, IBM Speech to Text and IBM Text to Speech. “These cognitive speech and language services are open to anyone, enabling application developers and IBM’s growing ecosystem to develop and commercialize new cognitive computing solutions,” Jerome Pesenti, VP of Watson … continue reading
Google has announced the new Google Cloud Console, a mobile app for Android and iOS to help developers manage cloud platform resources from their devices. Google Cloud Console lets developers view the overall health of their system, view projects, set alerts, monitor billing, and manage Google Cloud Platform resources. The console has the ability to … continue reading
Meteor has revealed its road map to Meteor 1.2 and beyond. Version 1.2’s anticipated release will take place later this summer, with ECMAScript 6 compatibility, support for Angular and React, and a faster and more flexible build pipeline. Beyond version 1.2, Meteor is focusing on SQL support, better ways to work with REST and microservices, … continue reading
Canonical has introduced the Fan, an overlay network system in Ubuntu for containers on Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine. The Fan is a free scalable address-expansion mechanism for both application-centric containers such as Docker or Rocket, or full-machine containers such as LXD, according to an announcement from Dustin Kirkland of Canonical’s Ubuntu product … continue reading
Oculus recently announced it had partnered with Microsoft for virtual reality gaming, but now we are getting an insight into what Microsoft’s plans are for the next generation of computing. “Our VR focus is on Windows as an open VR platform, not focused on something that’s closed and proprietary,” said Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft’s … continue reading
Oculus recently announced that it has been working with Microsoft to bring developers a platform to develop the next generation of games, and now the company is giving some more insight into why it chose Microsoft. The main reason was Windows 10, the company’s latest operating system coming in July, CNET reported. According to CNET, … continue reading
Let’s Encrypt, the initiative to encrypt HTTPS across the Web, has announced its launch schedule. The first certificate will be given out the week of July 27, with general availability coming the week of Sept. 14. “If we stay true to the schedule outlined above, we will have built an innovative [certificate authority], capable of … continue reading
Microsoft has officially announced that Windows 10 will be available on July 29. “With Windows 10, we start delivering on our vision of more personal computing, defined by trust in how we protect and respect your personal information, mobility of the experience across your devices, and natural interactions with your Windows devices, including speech, touch, … continue reading
