Fantom blockchain now supported on Pocket Network
Friday, May 13, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
Pocket Network announced it is adding support for Fantom Blockchain, the highly scalable blockchain platform for DeFi, crypto dApps, and enterprise applications.
Officially supporting Fantom within the Pocket Network enables developers to mint Fantom RPC endpoints for their applications directly from the Pocket Portal, enabling node runners too, for the first time, e...
DeFi platform expands into the NFT space
Monday, December 20, 2021 by Richard Harris
Umbria Network has augmented its position in the NFT space with its second phase of partnerships.
The protocol has introduced its novel Narni cross-chain liquidity bridge to a wider NFT audience via collaborations with innovative projects that are minting and selling on the Polygon blockchain. When buying NFTs on a Polygon marketplace such as OpenSea, users must brid...
Brands and anti-racism movements
Monday, September 14, 2020 by Jenna Jackson
The death of George Floyd, a black Houstonian, has triggered waves of protests across the nation. A situation that has catapulted anti-racial demonstrations to the forefront of public issues. Hopefully, it can cause the critical change that we know is long overdue.
While 2020 will go down in history as the year of the global pandemic, the scale and sheer force of these...
Immediate availability of SkySQL from MariaDB
Thursday, April 2, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
MariaDB Corporation announced the immediate availability of MariaDB SkySQL, a database-as-a-service (DBaaS), to unlock the full power of MariaDB Platform for transactions, analytics or both, and optimized with a cloud-native architecture. SkySQL delivers the “MariaDB in the cloud” experience customers have been waiting for - fully-featured, fully c...
Single Page Application security help
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 by Richard Harris
Single-page applications, or SPAs, are web apps that load a single HTML page and dynamically update that page as the user interacts with the app. Their origins are unclear but the concept was discussed as early as 2003 according to the archives on Wiki. SPAs use AJAX and HTML5 to create fluid and responsive Web apps, without constant page reloads - that literally means,...
ICO investment guide to review before you leap
Wednesday, February 21, 2018 by Harrison Gross
When reviewing a new cryptocurrency project or vendor, there is a certain amount of due diligence required. The crypto space is notorious for an abundance of charlatans, phishers and scammers which seem to only get more sophisticated and verisimilar by the day. Here is a quick checklist to run through when approaching or being approached by a party or project in crypto....
How to protect IP communications from telecom fraud
Thursday, December 28, 2017 by William King
Software-based IP communications continue to grow in popularity because of the added reliability, reach and control they allow businesses to have over their telecom resources. However, as more developers continue to transfer enterprise communications from legacy telcos to cloud-based service providers, the threat of telecom fraud and cyber-attacks also rise. Accord...
Device testing in the cloud empowers developers and ad fraudsters
Friday, December 8, 2017 by Richard Harris
Cloud technology has been a game-changer for many industries. It has reduced IT costs, made updating and upgrading systems much easier, allowed businesses to scale operations quickly, and it has enabled flexible work collaboration. The cloud also has major implications on how digital ads are tested and served to millions of people globally. The opportunity to seamlessly...
Webscale launches new WAF to thwart attacks on eCommerce sites
Thursday, March 2, 2017 by Richard Harris
Webscale has announced the launch of their Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF), the first of a new line of a-la-carte solutions designed to address the pain points many businesses face with regards to the security, availability and performance of their critical web applications. While the market is flush with WAF solutions that combat malicious attacks at the edge of a...
Introducing a web security ACL to block based on device fingerprints
Friday, February 3, 2017 by Richard Harris
Distil Networks, Inc., a bot detection and mitigation company, has announced a web application security Access Control List (ACL) platformA to block based on device fingerprints, providing a more effective way for website defenders to manage and apply whitelists and blacklists across their online applications."A key piece of feedback we got from our Bot Defense Council ...
NeuVector has a new approach to securing Docker containers
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 by Richard Harris
NeuVector has announced the launch and availability of a new approach to securing Docker containers. With constant behavioral learning automatically applied to security policies for containers, the platform secures containers where they have been most vulnerable: in production environments where they are constantly being deployed, updated, moved, and scaled across hosts...
MultiTenant vs. Single Tenant: Choosing the right DBaaS Data Store from the start
Thursday, November 17, 2016 by Michael Russo
The Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) model is an attractive option for rapid deployment of managed database assets in the cloud. If you’re thinking of using a DBaaS to power your cloud-based application’s database, you’ll want to understand the pros and cons of multi-tenant versus single-tenant datastores for housing your data. Both approaches have merit and by understandi...
Summer 2016 Elastic Integration Platform From SnapLogic Launches
Thursday, August 18, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
SnapLogic has announced the release of its Summer 2016 Elastic Integration Platform which brings new additions to SnapLogic’s library of more than 400 intelligent connectors called Snaps, and enhances the core platform with improved performance and new data governance features for hybrid deployments.The Summer 2016 release introduces several enhancements to SnapLogic’s ...
Twistlock Releases New Security Platform for Container Environments
Thursday, May 12, 2016 by Richard Harris
Twistlock has announced the release of Twistlock Runtime, a set of automated capabilities that defend against active threats targeting container environments. The platform is designed specifically to detect and stop sophisticated runtime attacks – including APTs and zero-day exploits – against containerized applications. Twistlock Runtime is a component within the ...
Distil Networks Releases API Security Service
Thursday, April 7, 2016 by Richard Harris
Distil Networks has released a new Distil API Security service that protects vulnerable Application Programming Interface (API) endpoints from malicious traffic. The Distil API Security solution protects all types of APIs including those serving web browsers, mobile applications, and Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices. Distil API Security defends against de...
Heroku has Introduced Addon Controls for Heroku Enterprise
Friday, February 26, 2016 by Richard Harris
Heroku has released Add-on Controls for Heroku Enterprise. This new feature enables development team leads to whitelist specific add-ons for approved use within their organization, choosing from Heroku’s marketplace of over 150 add-on services. Heroku reports that the ability to standardize the add-on technologies being used across all the apps and developers in an...
The App Features That Draw the Most Advertising Dollars Are...
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 by Josh Speyer
The good news for app developers is that, as the dollars continue to flow toward mobile and away from traditional mediums, there is plenty of ad spend to spread around. There are many app developers reaping the rewards of the mobile advertising boom, though not all who enter the market are able to monetize their creation in any significant way (or at all.) What sep...
Heroku's Private Spaces Brings New Levels of Security for Apps in the Cloud
Monday, September 28, 2015 by Richard Harris
Heroku’s new Private Spaces, now in limited beta, offers a new Heroku runtime that provides a way to isolate network applications and data services in the cloud. It provides a network isolated group of apps and data services with a dedicated runtime environment, provisioned to Heroku in a specific geographic region. Private Spaces is powered by Heroku Dogwood, a new run...
Making Sure the Facebook SDK Works with iOS 9
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 by Richard Harris
Developers whose apps built using the Facebook SDK for iOS will need to update to the final version, v4.6 and v3.24, of the SDK. Specifically apps that use Facebook Login, App Events , Analytics for Apps, Sharing across Facebook and Messenger, App Invites, App Links, or Native Like should be updated.The new SDKs include the following:- Compatibility with Xcode 7 and iOS...
Bomgar Platform Updates Secures Cloud Users Against Cyberattacks
Monday, September 14, 2015 by Richard Harris
Bomgar has released the latest version of its Privileged Access Management solution, which provides security professionals with the ability to control, monitor, and manage access to critical systems by privileged users and third-party vendors. Bomgar’s approach allows companies to enable controlled system access and defend against cyberattacks without requiring com...
Xamarin Enterprise Mobility Management Platform Now Offers Interoperability with IBM MobileFirst Protect
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 by Richard Harris
Xamarin’s Enterprise Mobility Management now has interoperability with IBM MobileFirst Protect to provide more comprehensive methods for securely delivering native iOS and Android apps. Developers write their apps in C#, and connect them to IBM MobileFirst’s data integration, notification, security, and analytics capabilities - all in C#, using IBM’s native libraries fo...
Contrast Security Release New Enterprise Application Security Platform
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Contrast Security has release Contrast Enterprise, a new application security product to integrate defenses across development and operations, offering vulnerability assessment, security visibility and attack protection throughout the application lifecycle. Contrast Enterprise offers Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP), which provides deep security instrumen...
Feedzai Fraud Detection Service API Receives Updates
Thursday, February 26, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Feedzai is a data science company launched last fall that uses real-time, machine-based learning to help payment providers, banks and retailers prevent fraud in omnichannel commerce through its fraud detection service API. The Fraud API provides fraud detection in real-time with human-readable explanations (i.e. whitebox scoring) helping merchants understand why th...
How Ad Agencies and Advertisers Are Adjusting to Mobile
Friday, February 13, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
I was talking with a large ad agency person the other day (off the record so no names) and they told me that the last year saw the biggest single year of identifiable movement away from traditional media (broadcast, print, etc.) to mobile. Meaning that there will be no slow down of dollars transitioning into mobile advertising.And it is interesting to me how little inte...
New Analytics, Mobile Crash Reporting and More Announced by New Relic at FutureStack 14
Monday, October 13, 2014 by Richard Harris
New Relic announced a number of new products and upcoming products at its FutureStack 14 conference held last week in San Francisco. Among the announcements was New Relic’s purchase of Ducksboard, a privately held startup based in Barcelona, Spain, that helps customers visualize and monitor data in real time from multiple data sources in a single dashboard. Accordi...
Apache Cordova 3.6 Release Includes Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 Support
Thursday, October 2, 2014 by Richard Harris
The team at Apache Cordova has announced the release of Apache Cordova 3.6, adding enhancements to one of the top go-to platforms to create native like mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.This release includes the support of Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 apps. The release introduces a new unified ‘Windows’ platform to build apps targeting Windows 8.0,...
Smaato Offers Beta Dynamic Demand Mobile Ad Server
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Smaato has releases the beta version of its Smaato Publisher Platform (SPP), an enterprise-grade, infinite scale SaaS platform ad server. SPP features Smaato’s Dynamic Demand technology that moves beyond sequential ad server selection instead allowing direct sold, RTB, indirect, and programmatic buys to all compete within SPP on an impression-by-impressio...
Appthority Launches Enterprise Mobile App Risk Management Service
Thursday, September 19, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Appthority continues to diversify its app risk management offerings for enterprises with the introduction of its new App Risk and Policy Management Solution. The new service is integrated with the company’s a mobile device management (MDM) solution to give enterprise IT administrators the tools needed to mitigate app risk.
The new app policy management solution allows ...
