Open source AI chatbot privacy issues addressed by Sendbird
Tuesday, December 12, 2023 by Richard Harris
Last month Sendbird became the first communications API platform to integrate Llama2, Meta’s open source LLM. By adding support for Llama2, on top of existing ChatGPT and PaLM-2 integrations, Sendbird became the first platform of its kind to offer organizations greater flexibility for their integration of generative AI chatbots. By doing so, companies can choose t...
MuPDF App Kits land from Artifex Software Inc
Monday, November 15, 2021 by Richard Harris
Artifex Software, Inc. has expanded the MuPDF family of products with the development of MuPDF App Kits. These easy-to-implement SDKs were explicitly designed for Android and iOS mobile application developers. Artifex technologies provide essential tools to major print manufacturers, SaaS and Cloud developers, PDF tools/creation companies, and software develop...
Syncfusion introduces new flutter widgets
Thursday, December 5, 2019 by Richard Harris
Syncfusion, Inc. is proud to announce the release of its new suite of Flutter widgets. Syncfusion’s Essential Studio for Flutter comes with powerful, user-friendly, and feature-rich charts and a data visualization widget, a radial gauge, written natively in Dart, making them compatible for Android, iOS, and web with no changes needed in the source code.
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Android Dev Summit highlights
Monday, October 28, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
During the 2019 Android Developer Summit, the Android team announced the future vision of Android, modern Android development experience, and more.
Android Dev Summit highlights: What modern Android development looks like
Jetpack Compose released to developer preview: First announced at I/O last year, Jetpack Compose will enable developers to easily build ...
Ballerina cloud native programming language launches
Friday, September 13, 2019 by Richard Harris
The growth of digital services, mobile apps, and connected devices are creating an explosion of endpoints, from APIs to events, data streams, microservices, serverless apps, and other digital assets. Developers today need a more modern and agile approach to connect to these endpoints than a traditional centralized enterprise service bus (ESB) can offer. Ballerina 1.0, n...
AI program is helping fight tropical diseases after Hurricane Maria
Monday, November 12, 2018 by Richard Harris
Wovenware is developing an AI program to help scientists at the Puerto Rico Vector Control Unit (PRVCU) research mosquitoes carrying diseases, such as Zika, Dengue, and Chikungunya, in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. PRVCU is trying to prevent the spread of these diseases and determine why many mosquitoes have gained immunity to insecticides. Since only one type of mo...
Reporting bugs just got a little easier
Tuesday, September 4, 2018 by Austin Harris
Filing bugs is a critical component of the QA process, but it can be time-consuming and cumbersome. Teams are often sidetracked into performing important yet tedious tasks including: screenshotting software issues, annotating them with details, downloading them into a separate Jira or Trello board and manually logging them for others to be able to reproduce the bug and ...
CoresystemsSightCall partnership brings AR to field service
Monday, August 28, 2017 by Austin Harris
Coresystems, a provider of cloud-based field service and workforce management software, has announced its partnership with SightCall, a video communications cloud platform. The partnership will bring the augmented reality (AR) functionalities of SightCall’s Video Assistance to Coresystems’ field service solution, allowing for field technicians to leverage augmented remo...
Foxit WebPDF 2.0 launches with REST API and Docker support
Thursday, November 24, 2016 by Richard Harris
Foxit Software has announced the release of Foxit WebPDF Viewer 2.0. The new release includes enhanced rendering, performance and security features, equipping web developers for better customization, integration and document control.There are several performance enhancements in WebPDF 2.0, including faster parsing and rendering of local PDFs, lower levels of server stra...
Stable Release of Android Studio 2.1 Supports Android N Developer Preview
Thursday, April 28, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
The stable release of Android Studio 2.1 is now available and includes updates to the platform’s IDE wizards, build system and Android Emulator. The Android Studio development team says that the latest release provides access to new features and APIs of the developer preview including the new Jack compiler and Java 8 language support. Android Studio 2.1 includes perform...
TIBCO Spotfire Provides Enhanced Data Visualizations And Analytics
Wednesday, March 16, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
TIBCO’s latest release of its Spotfire data analytics software offers enhancements to core visualizations, an expanded set of built-in data access and data preparation functions, additional collaboration and mashup capabilities, and a re-design of the Spotfire server topology with simplified web-based administration tools. Spotfire is a data visualization and analy...
Android Studio 1.3 Now Available
Tuesday, August 11, 2015 by Richard Harris
Android Studio 1.3 is now available on the stable release channel offering Google’s biggest feature release for the year so far, including a new memory profiler, improved testing support, and full editing and debugging support for C++.Updates in the release include:- Android Memory (HPROF) Viewer: Android Studio now allows the ability to capture and analyze memory snaps...
RoboVM Lets Developers Use Java to Build iOS Apps Using native UI’s With Full Hardware Access
Thursday, April 2, 2015 by Richard Harris
RoboVM Lets Developers Use Java to Build iOS Apps Using native UI’s With Full Hardware AccessRoboVM has released the first stable version of its coding platform which lets developers reuse Java language and tools skills to build iOS Apps using native UI’s and with full hardware access.RoboVM is setup as a platform with multiple components:- The ahead-of-time (AOT) compi...
Foxit Updates PDF Software Development Kit for Android and iOS
Saturday, August 30, 2014 by Richard Harris
Foxit Software has launched Foxit PDF Software Development Kit (SDK) 4.1. The updated SDK is targeted to application developers whose applications need to leverage standard-compliant PDF technology and allow users to interact with PDF documents and forms across server, desktop, and mobile platforms.Developers are challenged to write code for their application front ends...
Logentries Offers New Capabilities for Enterprises to Analyze Machine Log Data
Friday, June 27, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Logentries, a connected log management and analytics service, has announced new capabilities for utilizing its platform to manage machine log data including real-time team annotations, shareable performance dashboards, and instant group notifications.Logentries’ now offers new team-based access to infrastructure, application and user log data. Users now have t...
How to Make Business Apps Without the Need to Code
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 by Alex Bakman
Today over 90% of Americans who own a smartphone while close to half own a tablet. These mobile devices have become the de facto standard devices used in virtually all aspects of our lives today displacing our dependence on laptop and desktop computers. There is, however, a major dilemma taking place in this transition which we have witnessed before. When the IBM ...
Oracle Announces Most Significant Java Update in the History of the Platform
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 by Richard Harris
Oracle has released Java 8, which they say is “the most significant Java technology release.” Oracle is announcing Java Platform, Standard Edition 8 (Java SE 8), Java Platform, Micro Edition 8 (Java ME 8) and the related releases of Oracle's Java Embedded products. JDK 8 is a production-ready implementation of the Java SE 8 Platform Specification, wh...
JScrambler 3.5 Offers Self Defending Capabilities for HTML5 and JavaScript Web Apps
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 by Richard Harris
JScrambler is introducing new self defending capabilities for HTML5/JavaScript applications with its release of JScrambler 3.5. Self defending offers an active protection technique which provides apps with the capability to react to source code modifications (tampering) and debugging at runtime.Without protecting code, pirates can violate license agreements, s...
Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Are Updated
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 by Richard Harris
The Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – March 2014 Update is now available to download. The March 2014 Update ships with a number of new features that improves support for Office 365 Cloud Business App and apps for Office/SharePoint in Visual Studio 2013 RTM. It also allows developers to build new types of apps for Off...
Updates to Google Cloud Platform Include New Version of Mobile Backend Starter and Google Cloud Endpoints GA Version
Monday, November 11, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
As the Google Cloud continues to woo developers, an announcement has been made that Google Cloud Endpoints has now moved to general availability and a new version of Mobile Backend Starter is now available.
Google Cloud EndpointsGoogle Cloud Endpoints helps developers build their own backend offering a simple way to create, expose and consume APIs served from App Engin...
New Release: Tonara, The iPad App that Listens to Musicians and Automatically Flips Pages
Wednesday, November 6, 2013 by Richard Harris
Tonara, the
mobile music-playing app that listens, today released a new version of the iPad
application that listens to musicians, shows their location in the score and
automatically turns the pages of interactive sheet music. All Tonara users can
now download interactive scores for free in the new Tonara Free Zone and review
their music with an interactive playbac...
Updates to Dart SDK Brings New HTML Editor and dart2js
Sunday, October 6, 2013 by Richard Harris
Dart (the open-source Web programming language developed by Google) released a new SDK recently that includes some nice updates including making java faster, and a new spiffy HTML editor that will help you build better projects using Dart.If you aren't sure what I'm talking about, Dart is a class-based, single inheritance, object-oriented language with C-style syntax. I...
List of Completely Free Programming Books
Thursday, September 26, 2013 by Richard Harris
Developers and programmers alike need resources, and if you are looking for a free way to dive into programming, I've got the source for you. Head on over to stackoverflow and check out this growing list of books online or offline that you can use to either get started with or sharpen your app development mastery.
Everything from C# essentials...
Codio cloud IDE Launches Codio:Annotations
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 by Richard Harris
Codio:Annotations, a brand new embedded comments & training feature within the Codio cloud IDE has launched to public beta today. With Codio:Annotations, anyone can embed annotations directly within the Codio IDE to create rich, interactive tutorials. Codio:Annotations is built on the Codio IDE, the 100% web-based HTML5, CSS, JS front-end developer platform for...
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