Improve software quality and release speed with Katalon
Thursday, October 26, 2023 by Richard Harris
Katalon, the quality management platform, and Deloitte Canada announced a new initiative to foster improvement in software quality and expedite software release velocity. Globally recognized for its leadership in quality engineering, Deloitte will work with Katalon to roll out strategic co-innovation initiatives to help mutual clients optimize their testing practices, l...
AI VS code extension from Metabob speeds up code review
Monday, May 15, 2023 by Freeman Lightner
Metabob announced a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered virtual studio code (VSCode) extension for its debugging and refactoring tool that speeds software development code review by 60%. It provides users with useful context-sensitive code recommendations to fix errors right in the integrated development environment (IDE), and it is specifically trained to fix code...
Compile CUDA Quantum with Qristal from Quantum Brilliance
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 by Richard Harris
Quantum Brilliance has released a new version of its open-source Qristal software able to compile quantum programs written in CUDA Quantum, NVIDIA's newly announced open-source programming model.
Announced at NVIDIA GTC, a global AI conference, Quantum Brilliance's new release of Qristal heralds a major step forward in hybrid quantum-classical computing.
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5G 2022 predictions from EdgeQ
Tuesday, January 4, 2022 by Richard Harris
Vinay Ravuri, CEO at EdgeQ shares his predictions for 2022 about the cloudification of 5G, the death of Moore's law, 5G & AI convergence, and more.
5G will become an essential utility and assumed “natural resource” of infrastructure. Supplying the digital “pipeline” and harnessing data currency will become a focal point of national sec...
Quantum computing company receives over $9M in funding
Thursday, August 26, 2021 by Richard Harris
Quantum Brilliance, a venture-backed Australian-German full-stack quantum accelerator startup, has announced closing a USD$9.7 million seed investment co-led by the QxBranch founders’ and Main Sequence investment consortium.
Quantum Brilliance harnesses synthetic diamonds to build quantum accelerators that do not require near absolute zero temperature or comple...
Test automation framework from Tavant gets update
Thursday, June 17, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Tavant announced a new version of its end-to-end test automation framework, FIRE 5.0 (Framework for Intelligent and Rapid Execution).
Tavant's FIRE 5.0 is a comprehensive tool and technology agnostic-test automation framework. This framework can orchestrate multiple automation tools and technologies, including (but not limited to) Selenium, Appium, Cypress, Protr...
CircleCI brings privacy enhancements for teams across the enterprise
Monday, February 22, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
CircleCI introduced new platform updates to increase the control, protection, privacy, and confidence of today’s engineering teams.
Business leaders are concerned with the growth of remote-only and its impact on security. In fact, research shows 28 percent of leaders in 2020 were anticipated to prioritize improving application security capabilities ...
CircleCI hits 1 millionth user
Thursday, September 17, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
CircleCI celebrates nine years and the addition of their 1 millionth user to the platform.
“When CircleCI started, CI/CD was a kind of niche, bleeding-edge practice. Now, we’re seeing the market accelerate like never before as companies prioritize automation and continuous delivery systems,” said Jim Rose, CircleCI CEO. “No matter what market ...
Making hardware easy for software developers
Monday, February 17, 2020 by Richard Harris
Emerging developments in everything from 5G and autonomous cars to the latest in scientific research are requiring hardware that can reliably, rapidly and efficiently perform unique tasks and can be adapted to meet changing standards and specifications.
In this article, Ramine Roane, vice president of AI and software at Xilinx, discusses how new and existing adaptabl...
MuleSoft announces new tools
Monday, November 25, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
MuleSoft, the provider of the platform for building application networks, has announced new tools, pre-packaged connectors, and learning modules to empower anyone to compose connected customer experiences, without writing a single line of code. Now anyone can become an Integration Trailblazer and easily connect data sources – wherever that data resides; accel...
Game streaming and the live streaming movement according to LiveCamp
Friday, July 13, 2018 by Richard Harris
Betaworks launched their 4th accelerator program, LiveCamp, which is now accepting submissions. This year, Camp will focus on companies looking to advance the "live" participation gaming and streaming ecosystem.
Here's how it works. Betaworks will choose 5-10 companies to build into culturally significant brands, similar to what they've ...
Get your free developer package from Pusher and SendGrid
Monday, June 4, 2018 by Richard Harris
Pusher released the Pusher Developer Package. This pack is aimed at developers and will offer them free access to 13 key services they need for building great applications. Pusher is joined in this project by great service suppliers like Algolia, Auth0, ButterCMS, Chargebee, Cloudflare, Codeship, DataDog, DigitalOcean, Instabug, MongoDB, Mux.com, Nexmo, and SendGrid.The...
Renesas Electronics expands their microcontroller offerings
Thursday, November 16, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Renesas Electronics Corporation announced the expansion of its RX65N/RX651 Group of microcontroller (MCU) lineup that addresses advanced security needs for connected devices operating in industrial automation, building automation, and smart metering systems. The expanded lineup features MCUs with integrated Trusted Secure IP, and enhanced, trusted flash functionality an...
Oracle to use the new NVIDIA Tesla GPU
Wednesday, October 4, 2017 by Richard Harris
Oracle has announced that it will be using the latest Tesla GPU accelerators for its public cloud at Oracle OpenWorld, Don Johnson, the company’s senior vice president of product development. Additionally, he said Oracle will expand its cloud offerings to include Tesla V100 GPUs.“We’re working closely with NVIDIA to provide the next generation of accelerated computing t...
Low code does not mean simple or isolated
Monday, September 18, 2017 by Richard Harris
As automation and rapid development are increasingly becoming the order of the day, a clear pattern has begun to form between two key enterprise practices. That it is to say that low code development platforms are now often offering services for Enterprise Information Management. The new partnership between the two technologies being motivated by companies' constant dri...
New Giant Gecko MCU microcontrollers aim to help complex IoT apps
Tuesday, July 25, 2017 by Richard Harris
Silicon Labs has expanded its energy-friendly EFM32 Gecko portfolio with industrial-strength microcontrollers (MCUs) delivering better performance, more features and lower power. The new EFM32GG11 Giant Gecko MCU family offers an improved feature set available in the low-power MCU market, targeting smart metering, asset tracking, industrial/building automation, wearable...
Digital transformation will create jobs not kill them
Wednesday, April 5, 2017 by Richard Harris
When it comes to organizational impact, IT companies may be expecting to add jobs (including mobile app developers) over the next three to five years due to new projects (72 percent) and new technologies (69 percent) for digital transformation, according to a YouGov survey commissioned by Appian. Even more, 77 percent of IT leaders report digital transformation is a job...
The A to Z of lowcode app development
Friday, February 10, 2017 by Karthick Viswanathan
As we enter 2017, we are seeing low-code app development take root across larger enterprises and smaller businesses alike. In 2016, big players like Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce staked their claim in this market segment. Enter 2017, and we can expect the new entrants, along with incumbents such as WaveMaker, Mendix and OutSystems, to beg...
A tech brief for 2017 and beyond
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 by Richard Harris
IEEE Computer Society, a source for technology information in the computing industry and career development, offers a comprehensive list of industry-recognized products, services and professional opportunities. They've recently released their latest report in an attempt to highlight some of the up and coming technological advances that could take hold. As technology rap...
Blueprint partners with Unified Compliance to offer UCF for a development environment
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 by Richard Harris
Blueprint and Unified Compliance have announced a strategic partnership that integrates the UCF Common Controls Hub compliance content with Blueprint’s requirements management and application delivery solutions. The combined Blueprint-Unified Compliance solution provides a comprehensive suite of pre-packaged requirements that address hundreds of regulations, standards, ...
Axway just released AMPLIFY so you can run and scale APIenabled services
Thursday, November 3, 2016 by Richard Harris
Axway, a catalyst for transformation, has introduced Axway AMPLIFY, a new data integration and engagement platform that empowers organizations to unlock business value from a vast array of data sources to transform the customer experience. Developers, architects and administrators can use AMPLIFY for everything they need to power their unique inventions, from apps, conn...
Nimbix Adds Docker Integration to JARVICE Platform
Friday, September 23, 2016 by Ron Beaman
Nimbix just announced a new capability, PushToCompute, a method for rapid cloud deployment and monetization of containerized compute intensive applications. This capability is built into the JARVICE platform which powers the Nimbix Cloud.Through the added feature on the JARVICE platform, developers are able to import the latest version of their application int...
Reaping the Benefits of Agile Four Reasons You Need a Modern Requirements Tool
Tuesday, June 7, 2016 by Ruth Zive
The technology to support Agile requirements has evolved substantially over the last few years. However, many organizations are unaware of the powerful capabilities best-of-breed Agile requirements tools provide, including visualization, collaboration, management analytics and reuse. Today’s best-of-breed requirements tools also integrate with the tools business and dev...
There's Still Time to Get Travel Deals for the AT&T Developer Summit Conference and Hackathon
Wednesday, December 16, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
If you’re like me, you always wait till the last minute to book travel and always get stung with last minute pricing. Thus I was apprehensive as I was scrambling to book my travel for the AT&T Developer Hackathon and Summit on January 2 – 5 and was expecting the worst as I went to Virgin America’s site to check out pricing. Hard to believe, a round trip direct fligh...
Bitfusion's Boost Beta Offers CloudBased Hardware Accelerators
Monday, November 23, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Bitfusion’s new Boost Beta platform leverages cloud-based hardware accelerators to improve performance by an order of magnitude on existing hardware. The advanced optimization technology for high-performance, compute-intensive applications offers a software-acceleration layer that automatically provides performance improvements for high-performance and GPU-accelerated a...
Synopsy Expands IP Portfolio for IoT Development
Friday, October 2, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Synopsys’ new IoT IP portfolio offers services that are optimized to address the security, wireless connectivity, energy-efficient and sensor processing requirements for a wide range of Internet of Things applications such as wearables, smart appliances, metering and wireless sensor networks. The DesignWare IP portfolio for the IoT includes power- and area-efficien...
Improving Composite Application Performance with Best Practices for Web Services Testing
Thursday, May 28, 2015 by Don McElwee
Composite applications, which may rely upon hundreds or even thousands of third-party services to perform their functions, are becoming ubiquitous for application development in many industries. As they take control, they are causing an entire generation of conventional testers a world of headaches. One aspect of composite app testing in particular that is especially tr...
Top 10 Hacks To Move SaaS Customers From Free Usage To a Paid Subscription
Friday, February 20, 2015 by Dr Anil Kaul
A perennial problem faced by SaaS companies is the difficulty in converting free users to paid customers. This problem is compounded by free alternatives, often of varying quality. A business must be tactful in what it says and what it offers, analyzing customer behavior, preferences and how they navigate their website. The best strategy to increase the number of p...
