Telerik and Kendo UI R3 updates from Progress
Tuesday, November 7, 2023 by Richard Harris
Progress the provider of application development and infrastructure software, recently announced the R3 2023 release of Progress Telerik and Progress Kendo UI, the
most powerful .NET and JavaScript UI libraries and tools for application development. From modernizing legacy projects to building new applications, this new release equips developers with the tool...
The mobile app market is still growing to hit 571 billion by 2030
Monday, October 16, 2023 by Richard Harris
The increasing status of other mobile devices and smartphones, the rising demand for mobile apps in various industries, such as healthcare, gaming, education, and retail, the growing adoption of mobile payment and other mobile commerce solutions, the increasing use of machine learning and artificial intelligence in mobile apps. The mobile app market is also expected to ...
Geo localized metaverse events from OVER
Monday, October 24, 2022 by Richard Harris
OVER has launched its new desktop application, OVER GATE Console. Designed to create unique geo-localized experiences that bridge the gap between the physical and digital worlds, OVER GATE Console enables users to organize, manage and customize their own live AR events worldwide across the metaverse. Leveraging sophisticated next-generation technology, OVER GATE allows ...
NET MAUI and the end of IE
Thursday, August 4, 2022 by Richard Harris
Earlier this year, Microsoft announced the general availability of .NET MAUI, enabling developers to build cross-platform applications from a single codebase, saving costs, and eliminating the need to maintain multiple codebases.
According to Microsoft, the primary goal of .NET MAUI is to enable developers "to deliver the best app experience as designed speciall...
ezeep JavaScript library lands from ThinPrint
Tuesday, March 29, 2022 by Richard Harris
ezeep by ThinPrint announced the release of ezeep.js, a new JavaScript library that makes it possible for web developers to easily add printing capabilities into any web application in just a few steps.
"Desktop applications are being replaced by cloud-based web applications, and users are accessing them from all kinds of devices, smartphones...
Metaverse world connects millions for the Expo 2020 Dubai
Tuesday, December 14, 2021 by Richard Harris
Anyone anywhere can experience the magic of Expo 2020 Dubai with friends and family. The World Expo has teamed up with Magnopus to offer an enriching digital experience for millions of on-site and remote visitors from around the world. Expo Dubai Xplorer sets a new standard for accessibility and inclusivity to large events and expands the World Expo’s vision of &l...
Ubuntu Impish Indri lands from Canonical
Monday, October 25, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
Canonical released Ubuntu 21.10, the environment for cloud-native developers and AI/ML innovators across the desktop, devices, and cloud.
"As open source becomes the new default, we aim to bring Ubuntu to all the corners of the enterprise and all the places developers want to innovate. From the biggest public clouds to the tiniest devices, from DGX ser...
Infragistics Ultimate 21.1 builds on enhancements for developers
Monday, June 21, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Infragistics announced the release of Infragistics Ultimate 21.1. The newest release breaks new ground in app design and developer collaboration with the world’s only digital product design platform, Indigo.Design, that lets teams build apps up to 10x faster.
Infragistics Ultimate 21.1 builds on three key themes:
Hyper-productivity enhancements for develo...
Webinar: What is low code and why should I care
Tuesday, April 7, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Ashwood Computer and BlueFinity International are jointly hosting a free webinar to demonstrate the many benefits of using low code app development tools to create state of the art, professional mobile apps and to introduce BlueFinity’s low code development platform, Evoke.
Research last year from Gartner[i] predicted that by 2024, about two-thirds of applicati...
.NET Core 3.0 is here
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has announced the release of .NET Core 3.0. It includes many improvements, including adding Windows Forms and WPF, adding new JSON APIs, support for ARM64 and improving performance across the board. C# 8 is also part of this release, which includes nullable, async streams, and more patterns. F# 4.7 is included and focused on relaxing syntax and targeting .NET ...
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,...
NodeSource pricing tier has changed
Thursday, August 16, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
NodeSource announced the release of a new, integrated product platform. Teams can now benefit from a more cohesive set of solutions for Engineering and DevOps, as well as a more streamlined user experience. This release also marks the first time NodeSource has offered a free-forever pricing tier, targeted at individual developers or those working on small projects. An a...
Lowcode platform by LANSA announces big updates
Wednesday, August 1, 2018 by Richard Harris
LANSA has announced a major new release of its software development platform, Visual LANSA. The update plans to improve developers' ability to build scalable mobile, web and desktop applications significantly faster than before, in order to accelerate customers’ digital transformation projects.
Visual LANSA key improvements include:
More enterpri...
Glance announces mobile app sharing for omnichannel visual engagement
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Glance has announced the general availability of Glance Mobile App Sharing, rounding out the industry’s only true omnichannel visual engagement platform. The announcement was made at the Gartner Customer Experience & Technologies Summit in London. “For the past two years, TurboTax has used Glance’s cobrowse, screen share and agent video to help power TurboTax o...
Mobile website or mobile app, the changing tides
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 by Richard Harris
Programming with native mobile languages has been the keystone way of producing a rock-solid mobile app since the beginning of the mobile app stores, and there’s good reason. After-all, programming as close to the hardware layer as possible is usually your safest bet, and using the language the manufacture fully supports will get that job done with less headaches.But in...
Why enterprises will modernize their enterprise apps this year
Wednesday, January 24, 2018 by Richard Harris
Sapho and IDG Communications have released the results of a survey targeting 160 IT Directors and Chief Information and Technology Officers at enterprise companies with more than 1,000 employees. The results show an overwhelming number (78%) of respondents planning to upgrade their organization’s enterprise applications this year in an effort to provide employees with b...
Creating multilingual apps with GitHub and Crowdin
Saturday, January 20, 2018 by Khrystyna Humenna
For millions of developers, GitHub is a perfect place to share code, build software, and grow businesses. This fall GitHub opened a Marketplace where you can find the right tools to add to your workflow and get the job done. To extend your app's reach, there’s a tool like Crowdin, a localization management tool that easily integrates with your repository, so you ca...
MFiles explains intelligent information management
Tuesday, December 26, 2017 by Richard Harris
M-Files Corporation has announced M-Files 2018, a new product release that represents a step forward in how businesses manage information. M-Files 2018 and the new Intelligent Metadata Layer provide a unified interface that enables users to quickly access documents and other information regardless of the system in which they are stored. In addition, AI in M-Files 2018 e...
Audio Control API announced by Sony
Friday, December 22, 2017 by Richard Harris
Today Sony released their first ever Audio Control API, enabling developers to work with compatible Sony devices on their smart home automation apps.The Audio Control API, which is a derivative of the Scalar API, opens up the possibility to control Sony’s latest home cinema equipment, allowing developers, or home automation enthusiasts to control parameters like power, ...
Digital content marketplace looks to rival traditional methods
Monday, October 16, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
DECENT has announced the beta launch of its DECENT GO marketplace, a decentralized digital marketplace. DECENT had previously launched their desktop application for DECENT GO at the end of June and are now thrilled with the addition of marketplace functionality. Built on DECENT’s blockchain, the new marketplace promises to offer a better deal for content producers and p...
Rethinking DevOps as DevSecOps
Thursday, October 12, 2017 by Akshay Aggarwal
If you’re not already thinking right now that your DevOps teams should be run like a DevSecOps team, you may already be in a world of hurt. Time to wake up! As the adoption of APIs continues to grow, so do the risks to organizations that don’t actively test the security of their solutions. Modern Agile development frameworks have changed the way engineering teams produc...
The HTML5 killer you may not know about
Thursday, September 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
For years HTML has been the universal language for website construction, and it has been impressively resilient in the face of competing languages thus far. It’s been known to have the best combination of speed, security, responsiveness and compatibility of all programming languages on the market. However, the world is expanding beyond the internet browser to mobile and...
Game developers can now use StratusCore's Virtual Studio platform
Wednesday, August 2, 2017 by Richard Harris
StratusCore, a content production technology company, has announced significant enhancements to its cloud-based Virtual Studio platform that allows digital artists and creative studios to create content in a more cost-effective way with on-demand access to an expanded range of software tools, compute and collaboration.StratusCore’s Virtual Studio is a pre- to post-produ...
Why runtime application selfprotection is critical for app security
Tuesday, June 20, 2017 by David Strom
Today most of us go about implementing security from the outside in. The common practice is to start by defining a perimeter and trying to defend it with various security tools. Even though perimeters have been porous for more than a decade, we still can’t give up this notion that if we build a better wall we can keep our enterprises safer.Certainly that is where most e...
NodeSource N|Solid for Alpine Linux
Wednesday, April 19, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
NodeSource, the Node.js company, has announced the release of NodeSource N|Solid for Alpine Linux, the newest addition to its enterprise-grade Node.js platform that enables a secure, reliable and extensible platform for Node.js applications. The latest release makes it easier for teams using Docker containers with the popular Alpine Linux distribution to leverage the en...
4 proven ways to reduce churn with a mobile app
Thursday, February 23, 2017 by Justin Dunham
Have you read all of the 23,000 articles out there about reducing churn?There are some really great ideas about how to improve your onboarding, how to communicate better, how to segment better. Even how to save customers right before they click the “cancel” button.The underlying problem that these tactics address is the same. Users churn because they don&rsq...
Angular and VS 2017 support from Progress comes with new UI components
Thursday, February 2, 2017 by Richard Harris
Release of Telerik DevCraft R1 2017 enhances offerings for modern web and mobile UI developmentProgress announced the latest release of the Progress Telerik DevCraft suite, a complete UI toolbox for web, mobile and desktop development. New capabilities support the latest programming frameworks and IDEs, including Angular, Visual Studio 2017, jQuery 3, ASP.NET Core and X...
More data will be created in 2017 than the previous 5,000 years of humanity
Friday, December 23, 2016 by Richard Harris
Editors note: Predictions sent in from Sencha's CEO Art Landro
In 2015, Art predicted that in 2016 the explosion of data would drastically transform the technology landscape, requiring organizations to visualize all incoming data from IoT devices for rapid decision making and insight into competitiveness and viability. He believes data will remain a key...
Shift desktop application to address workarounds for Gmail users
Wednesday, December 21, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
Canadian software provider Redbrick announced the release of Shift: a new native application for desktop that helps simplify and streamline the navigation of multiple Gmail accounts.With Shift, the company's goal is to address the many workarounds that Gmail users commonly resort to when managing their various accounts, such as running multiple browsers simultaneously, ...
Sencha opens up about SenchaCon, developer challenges, and platform updates
Tuesday, November 29, 2016 by Richard Harris
Sencha, a company that provides developers with frameworks, tools and services to help them build cross-platform web application experiences, recently held its sixth user conference SenchaCon, the largest universal application event in the world. We caught up with Sencha’s CEO Art Landro to learn more about two announcements the company made at SenchaCon: an enhanc...
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure: The way forward in government mobility
Monday, November 28, 2016 by Edris Amiryar
Advances in technology are rapid and can be hard to keep up with, especially for large organizations. The federal government relies heavily on IT to accomplish its tasks and there is increasing demand for access to information from any location, in any geography, meaning that for federal agencies, improved mobility and mobile data security are imperative for m...
Why smart apps will be the next phase in business app development
Thursday, October 20, 2016 by Richard Harris
It all started with desktop applications, then it moved to the web, then to mobile, then to multi-channel applications. With each new wave came new uses thanks to technological advancements. Smart Apps mark the next step in the app story. With the rise of the internet of things (IoT), big data and machine learning, it makes sense for apps to evolve to incorporate these ...
Sencha Launches Ext JS 6.2
Monday, September 19, 2016 by Richard Harris
Sencha has announced the general availability of its flagship Ext JS 6.2 and core products Sencha Cmd 6.2, Sencha Architect 4.0, and the new Sencha Themer 1.0. With these latest releases, Sencha is introducing advanced data visualization capabilities along with new framework components, enhanced web application development tools, and solutions for faster application the...
JavaOne Conference to Focus on New Java Language Changes
Wednesday, August 17, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
The JavaOne conference, hosted by Oracle, is billed as the “ultimate source” of technical information and learning about Java. No matter if you’re a seasoned coder or a new Java programmer, the conference organizers say they will have something for you.The event is co-located with Oracle OpenWorld on September 18–22 in San Francisco and will offer 5 days of ke...
Autodesk Adds New APIs and SDKs to Forge Cloud Development Platform
Friday, June 17, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Autodesk has announced new functionality to its Forge platform, including new cloud application development tools and services cloud developers. The Forge platform offers a set of cloud services that connects design, engineering, visualization, collaboration, production and operations workflows. Application programming interfaces (APIs) and software developmen...
