Lifecycle management AI Platform released by ClearML
Monday, August 26, 2024 by Austin Harris
ClearML, the solution for unleashing AI in the enterprise, announced the launch of its expansive end-to-end AI Platform, designed to streamline AI adoption and the entire development lifecycle. This unified, open-source platform supports every phase of AI development, from lab to production, allowing organizations to leverage any model, dataset, or architecture at scale...
Software development costs detailed in new Boyd report
Thursday, April 28, 2022 by Richard Harris
A new 2022 North American site selection study compares the cost of operating a software development center in a series of 25 top U.S. and Canadian hubs of the software industry. Operating costs are scaled to a representative 50,000 sq. ft. software development office employing 150 workers. The analysis includes all major geographically-variable cost factors critical to...
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...
The network is now open for developers
Monday, July 9, 2018 by Kanwal Sarwar
A year ago, Cisco launched the most ambitious network re-think: the intent-based networking offering, Cisco DNA, and its centerpiece control software, DNA Center. It treats every network device - be it wired, wireless, or wide-area - as part of a unified fabric, giving IT a simpler, more cost-effective way to take control of one of their businesses’ most valuable ...
Pyze is leveling the playing field so mobile and web app publishers can compete
Thursday, December 15, 2016 by Richard Harris
While mobile channels constituted over $1 billion in 2016 Black Friday retail sales and web channels over double this amount in revenue, one company looks to aide users in harnessing that market potential in a whole new way.Pyze is an intelligence and marketing platform that enables mobile and web app publishers the ability to organically grow users by automating and pe...
SAP Announces SAP HANA Express Edition
Friday, September 23, 2016 by Richard Harris
SAP SE has released SAP HANA, express edition, a streamlined, downloadable version of its in-memory platform optimized for fast and continuous development of data-driven applications. This latest release provides developers with ubiquitous access to the SAP HANA platform to build applications free of charge on a laptop or desktop, or in the cloud.The announcement was ma...
Windows Dev Center Tips Aims to Help With Common Windows Store Publishing Scenarios
Friday, May 20, 2016 by Richard Harris
The Windows developer team's new blog series called Windows Dev Center Tips to help app publishers through several common publishing scenarios associated with the Windows Store.Among the topics covered in the new series are:- Publish or update a public app- Package flighting- Third party and legacy distribution options- Publishing hidden apps- Side-loading and enterpris...
Quali Open Sources Python Based Automation for Cloud Sandboxes
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Quali’s platform automates the DevOps lifecycle through the use of Cloud Sandboxes, providing an opportunity for IT teams to offer catalogs of Sandboxes that incorporate mixed infrastructure - from physical networking and infrastructure to virtual infrastructure and cloud interfaces - to applications.The company has announced that it has open-sourced its plug-ins known ...
Flybits The Dawning Era of the Citizen Developer and What It Means for Professional Developers
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 by Dr Hossein Rahnama
By 2017 demand for enterprise mobile apps will outstrip available development capacity five to one, according to Gartner. At the same time, as an increasing number of apps look the same or sport the same features, consumers are demanding more personalized, context-aware mobile experiences. This situation looks a lot like what we experienced in the late 90s, wh...
Learn How to Use Windows Bridge for iOS
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 by Richard Harris
The Windows dev team has created a series of blog posts to help developers dive into using the Windows Bridge for iOS to create Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps that can run on Windows 10 devices using iOS APIs and existing Objective-C code. Getting Started with Windows Bridge for iOSTo get started with the bridge developers need to Install Visual Studio. Thos...
Windows Dev Center Updates Coding4Fun Coding Site
Wednesday, January 6, 2016 by Richard Harris
The Windows Dev Center team has relaunched Coding4Fun with new content for the Universal Windows Platform. Coding4Fun is a site within the Windows Dev Center that’s offers fun and interesting code samples that feature the APIs available on the Universal Windows Platform. The site offers different, unique, and time-saving capabilities as you noodle around the project bas...
Windows Dev Center Rolls Out New Age Rating Process and Other Updates
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 by Richard Harris
The Windows Dev Team is rolling out several updates for how developers work within the Windows Dev Center including a new age rating system, new app promotion and monetization opportunities and updates to the Windows developer agreementNew Simplified Age Rating ProcessIn December Microsoft will begin the rollout of a new process to simplify obtaining age ratings for app...
Microsoft Releases No Code Windows 10 App Studio Out of Preview
Wednesday, November 4, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has released the Windows App Studio with Windows 10 Store Support Release out of preview providing the access to a free, online app creation tool for those with no coding experience to create and publish a universal Windows app with no code required. App Studio Windows 10 was released in preview in July. With the general release, users can now direc...
New Windows 10 (UWP) Package Submissions Provide Advanced App Usage Info
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 by Richard Harris
The Windows Development Team has released a new feature that provides app usage information to developers in the Windows Dev Center. This feature is included in all new Windows 10 (UWP) package submissions and provides increased reach into app analytics.Developers can view a number of app usage statistics including user sessions, active users, session length, page views...
Microsoft Streamlines Windows Developer Ad Options
Wednesday, October 14, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The Windows Dev Center team has announced that it finished integrating the functionality previously available in the Windows pubCenter in order to simplify the process that developers use to create, manage and track Microsoft advertising ad impressions and revenue across Windows phone, tablet and PC. In addition, Microsoft Advertising and Windows ad mediation have ...
Microsoft Streamlines Ad Management Process for Windows Store Apps
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 by Richard Harris
The Windows Dev Team has announced it has streamlined the process for app ad management in the Windows Store. In the past, for apps using any of the Microsoft Advertising SDKs, the ads-in-app creation, advertising reports, and financials have been managed in Windows pubCenter, while the app itself is submitted to the Windows Store and managed in the Windows Dev Center.N...
Microsoft Provides Windows COPPA Support for App Advertising to Kids
Wednesday, September 2, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft is releasing COPPA support in its Dev Center to help developers define how to manage ads in apps whose primary audience is children.Beginning in September, developers can indicate if their app targets children under 13 as defined in the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). If a developer selects this option, Microsoft will disable its behavioral a...
Windows 10 Store Is Officially Open for Business for Developers
Friday, July 31, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
On the launch of its biggest news in years, Microsoft is betting the farm that developers will flock to get their apps on the Windows 10 Store. The Windows Dev Center is open for business to accept Windows 10 app submissions for PC and mobile apps and soon for IoT, console and holographic offerings.It is a new day for the Universal Windows Platform as Microsoft is not o...
Visual Studio 2015 and Windows 10 SDK Release Dates Announced
Monday, July 6, 2015 by Richard Harris
This month will see a lot of activity for Windows developers as the releases of Visual Studio 2015, Windows 10, and the Universal Windows App Development Tools, which includes the Windows 10 SDK, will all hit in July. Here are the release dates:- July 20: Visual Studio 2015 (“VS 2015″)- July 29: Windows 10, the Windows 10 SDK, and the Visual Studio Universal Window...
Windows 10 Developers Prepare For Takeoff
Friday, June 26, 2015 by Richard Harris
With Windows 10 being released on July 29, 2015 the Windows 10 team continues to provide updates on things that are new for developers and things you can do to get ready now.There will be more rapid announcements as the team will start releasing previews of the Windows 10 SDK more often to Windows Insiders. Expect to see more rapid releases of the Windows 10 SDK preview...
Microsoft Advertising Announces New Monetization Tools Including Preview Advertising SDK for Windows 10
Wednesday, May 6, 2015 by Richard Harris
Included in the announcements release at Microsoft’s Build conference was a number of new monetization tools including the availability of a new preview advertising SDK for Windows 10. Here are highlights of the announcement:- Preview advertising SDK for Windows 10 is now available. This universal ad SDK supports phone, tablet, and PC. The ad SDK also supports video int...
Windows 10 Developer Tooling Technical Preview Released
Friday, March 27, 2015 by Richard Harris
The Windows developer team has released to the Windows Insiders community the first technical preview of the Windows 10 developer tooling.As a preview, do not expect a completely finished product, instead you get the opportunity to experiment with the new platform capabilities while Microsoft continues working to finish Windows 10.Here are some of the top features of th...
Reporting Changes to Windows Phone App Downloads and In App Products Reports
Tuesday, February 17, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The Windows Dev Center has announced that Windows Phone download and in-app purchase reports have been optimized to deliver information faster. The team released this change for Windows in December and is now are aligning these improvements to Windows Phone. App developers will now see transaction data no more than 2 days following the transaction itself and in man...
New Windows and Windows Phone Store App Dev Contest
Tuesday, February 10, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The Windows and Windows Phone Store app developer program has launched a new game developer contest running through March 20 offering $28,000 in prizes including a top prize of $10,000. Contest winners will be announced on or before May 11.Developers can submit games made with any technology. You can submit original games or port existing published games (from an altern...
The PC Is Not Dead and Here Is Proof
Wednesday, January 14, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Oh, the poor PC. Relegated in the app development world as an afterthought. Even as manufacturers create hybrid PC devices including ultra-thin laptops, 2-1 devices, and light-weight models, PC’s have lagged in the public eye as smartphones, tablets, wearables, and other devices took the center stage at CES. Not so fast my friend. It may take a little connecting of the ...
KidoZen's Latest Addition: Data Visualization to Enterprise Mobile App Platform
Thursday, November 20, 2014 by Richard Harris
KidoZen is a leader in enterprise mobility solutions. The company announced today its most recent addition of data visualization for its next-generation enterprise mobile app platform. This new data visualization includes a static snapshot analysis which has mobile reporting tools. The tools are for facilitating user interaction and analyzing real data of business ...
Windows Mobile App Ad Mediation Solution Now Available
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The Windows Mobile team has announced the availability of Windows Ad Mediation, a solution designed to help Windows Phone developers manage multiple in-app advertising SDKs.The solution allows developers to increase fill rates by deploying multiple ad networks in a way that when one ad network is unable to deliver ad inventory, the app calls a second or third ad network...
Feedzai Launches Portal to Allow App Developers to Integrate Fraud API
Monday, November 3, 2014 by Richard Harris
Feedzai has created a new developer portal providing access to its Feedzai Fraud API which allows developers to detect fraud in real-time for retail transactions. Feedzai is a data science company that uses real-time, machine-based learning to analyze big data to make commerce safe.The new Feedzai Fraud API utilizes the company’s “Fraud Prevention That Learns” software ...
Microsoft Announces New Office 365 REST based APIs plus iOS and Android SDKs
Friday, October 31, 2014 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has announced has announced three new Office 365 capabilities for developers: 1) general availability of new Office 365 APIs for mail, files, calendar and contacts; 2) new mobile SDKs for native app development, and 3) visibility for developers’ apps through the new Office 365 app launcher. The new Office 365 REST-based APIs for mail, files, and calendar ...
Microsoft Creates Lifetime Developer Center Account Packaged with New Benefits
Monday, September 22, 2014 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has introduced a new lifetime Dev Center account and a new Dev Center Benefits program. A lifetime Dev Center registration fee is now available as Microsoft continues its vision to integrate the Windows and Windows Phone developer experience. Now the Windows Dev Center requires only a one-time registration payment, which grants developers the ab...
Microsoft Launches New Dev Center Partner Program
Thursday, September 11, 2014 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has announced a new Dev Center Partner Program which provides middleware providers access to devices, software, co-marketing, event support, and more. The program includes a new partner directory to help developers find a growing list of middleware partners targeting Windows.Current partners include Unity, PayPal, PhoneGap, Facebook, Localytics, Fortumo, Syncf...
The World Wide Leader in Sports Leaves Developers in a World of Hurt as ESPN Closes Public API
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 by Richard Harris
ESPN has announced that it is closing its public API and will no longer be issuing public API keys. Developers utilizing the ESPN API with a public API key will continue to do so until Monday, December 8, 2014, at which point the keys will no longer be active.ESPN launched the ESPN Developer Center in March 2012 and according to the company has evolved, “the capabilitie...
Heroku Release Heroku Button: A Simple HTML or Markdown Snippet
Friday, August 8, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Heroku has released the Heroku Button, a simple HTML or Markdown snippet that can be added to READMEs, blog posts and other places where code lives. Clicking a Heroku Button will take you through a guided process to configure and deploy an app running the source code referenced by the button.How it WorksWhen you see a Heroku Button in a README, in documentation or ...
Oculus VR Gaming DK2s Now Shipping, New 0.4.0 SDK Beta Also Released
Monday, July 28, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Oculus has announced that DK2, the latest development kit for the Oculus Rift, is now available. DK2s have started shipping out to developers in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and the company expects to have over 9,000 DK2s in developers’ hands by the end of the first week of August. The company reports they are working out a minor snag for Oceanic cu...
Visa Introduces Visa Checkout, A New Mobile Payment System and SDK
Friday, July 18, 2014 by Richard Harris
Visa has launched Visa Checkout, a new payment service enhanced for mobile that allows users to enter a username and password to make credit card payments on a PC, mobile device or within a mobile app. Visa Checkout works with any major credit or debit card. Visa says that it created the new payment option to simplify the checkout process. When users enter the...
