Red Hat Developer Hub is available now
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 by Richard Harris
Red Hat, Inc., the provider of open-source solutions, announced the general availability of Red Hat Developer Hub, an enterprise-grade internal developer platform (IDP) based on Backstage, an open-source Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project. Featuring a self-service portal, standardized software templates, dynamic plug-in management, enterprise role-ba...
Chat SDK for developers from Agora
Wednesday, October 26, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
Agora, Inc. announces the global availability of Agora Chat, a new SDK that aims to make it easy for developers to rapidly embed real-time in-app chat into their web and native apps; providing an immersive experience that keeps their users more connected, informed, and engaged. The launch of Agora Chat coincides with the start of Agora’s flagship event RTE202...
Microverse IDE beta opens
Thursday, June 23, 2022 by Richard Harris
Croquet, the open OS and developer platform for the metaverse has announced the open beta of Microverse IDE, its development and deployment environment built for Croquet OS, which empowers web and web3 developers to rapidly deliver interoperable, standards-based metaverse worlds.
Croquet Microverse IDE beta opens, helping solve metaverse challenges
Croquet also an...
Advanced analytics solution Datascape from Adjust
Friday, April 8, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
Adjust launched Adjust Datascape, a new advanced analytics solution designed to deliver business-critical KPIs and performance metrics faster and easier. With unified data and expanded visual context, mobile app marketers can extract meaningful insights and make smarter strategic marketing decisions in real-time.
Agility is more important than ever as app market...
Developer relations teams in 2022
Tuesday, January 4, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
As the Director of Developer Relations at Mindee, Frederic Harper helps developers merge the physical and digital worlds using the magic of machine learning coupled with the ease of APIs. He’s helped build successful communities at npm, Mozilla, Microsoft, DigitalOcean, and Fitbit, and is the author of the book Personal Branding for Developers at Apress. Harper di...
App security testing platform lands from Oxeye
Monday, January 3, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
Oxeye announced the company’s Cloud-Native Application Security Testing Platform (CNAST). The new platform identifies code vulnerabilities, open-source vulnerabilities, and secrets to highlight the most critical issues in the software development lifecycle, delivering clear guidance for fast and accurate remediation.
App security testing platform CNAST
Accor...
StorONE launches backup storage
Friday, November 19, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
The latest ransomware variants perform what is known as sleeper attacks, which avoid discovery by slowly infecting data. By the time an organization realizes it is dealing with a ransomware attack, a high percentage of data is encrypted. Modern backup storage needs to not only provide immutability of backup data it must do so, without impacting performance for pote...
Developer platform Haystack launches Enterprise solution
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 by Russ Scritchfield
Engineering productivity company Haystack Analytics reported continued strong business performance as it introduces its enterprise offering less than 6 months after announcing seed funding. Revenues have increased by an average of over 35% month-over-month as demand amongst high-profile customers has grown.
Haystack provides a platform providing technology leade...
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...
The true potential of blockchain as seen from Ethan Beard
Wednesday, May 13, 2020 by Richard Harris
Ripple offers the most advanced blockchain technology for global payments that reaches a trusted, growing network of 300+ financial institutions across 40+ countries and
six continents. Ripple’s open-source developer platform for money, Xpring, allows both crypto and non-crypto developers to integrate payments into any mobile application—with a wallet, new ...
Ripple arms developers with Xpring to accept money easier in apps
Wednesday, October 2, 2019 by Richard Harris
Ripple is enabling the world to move value like information moves today. It’s this vision, known as the Internet of Value (IoV), that drives everything they do: from building our global payments network, RippleNet, to establishing initiatives like Xpring—which is helping scale innovative blockchain projects through partnership and investment.
They are thr...
The new Sprint CTL Chromebook NL7 LTE
Wednesday, November 21, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Sprint is working with Google and CTL to create the all-new CTL Chromebook NL7 LTE with Sprint featuring Sprint’s built-in LTE technology. The CTL Chromebook NL7 LTE with Sprint seamlessly integrates with Google’s G Suite for Education as well as G-Suite Basic, Business and Enterprise editions, and allows users to connect virtually anywhere without the need ...
G Suite developer platform gets a new Apps Script dashboard
Tuesday, November 6, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Google has announced the Apps Script dashboard that will aim to offer new and expanded functionality under the new name the G Suite Developer Hub to make it easier to create, track and manage developer projects within the G Suite developer platform.
With the G Suite Developer Hub, customers will be able to:
Get started quickly.
The G Suite ...
Intercom launches app store to the public with more than 100 apps
Thursday, August 2, 2018 by Richard Harris
Intercom just joined the growing list of providers with their own app store by launching the Intercom App Store. With over 100 apps already in the catalog that are using their developer platform, early publishers include Coda, Hubspot, and Shopify. The app store was a bit "behind closed doors" within the Intercom product dashboard but it just got a huge shove ...
Postman 6.0 aims to help API development collaboration
Friday, February 23, 2018 by Richard Harris
Postman has announced the release of Postman 6.0, which includes the introduction of Workspaces, an entirely new construct to enhance collaboration on connected software. Workspaces is a completely new development resource that improves organization and collaboration within the Postman API dev environment. Developers can better organize their API work - and speed up and...
The small business market should be the developers next focus
Tuesday, September 26, 2017 by Richard Harris
Small businesses are more often than not behind the curve when it comes to technology, but how will that change in the future as? That's the question that many enterprise are searching for the answer to.Alex Barnett recently returned to Intuit to head up their Developer Group and he could not be more inspired by the role developers are playing in small business success....
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...
Kony introduces us to AppPlatform V8
Thursday, August 24, 2017 by Richard Harris
Businesses big and small are feeling the mounting pressure of increasing demand by their clients, employees and partners for mobile apps. Many of them struggle to meet this demand. Especially with limited budgets and lack of in-house developer skills, which seem to be the biggest hurdles.To help solve this mobile app dilemma, Kony recently launched its Kony AppPlatform ...
The case for developer platforms as seen by Oracle
Friday, July 7, 2017 by Richard Harris
Developers' lives are getting more challenging than ever. In the past, CIOs would give them the environment they had to work in, and operations was never part of their daily worries. But with the advent of cloud computing and broad adoption of DevOps methodologies, developers are now responsible for thinking about their environment, orchestrating containers, monitoring ...
Zendesk and Google Fabric partner
Thursday, April 20, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Customers today expect help when they hit a customer experience snag, even if that is the middle of their commute or when they’re standing in a coffee line. Gartner forecasts that this year, 35% of all customer support will take place on a mobile device, an increase of 300% over 2014. In response to this customer demand, Zendesk has launched the first customer...
Cloudenabled attendant console at Enterprise Connect 2017
Monday, March 27, 2017 by Richard Harris
At Enterprise Connect 2017, Enghouse Interactive has announced that its TouchPoint Attendant for Microsoft Skype for Business Online is generally available. TouchPoint Attendant is an operator console solution that natively integrates into Microsoft’s Skype for Business. This makes them one of the first consoles to market with support for Skype for Business Online and O...
Ixia Releases Agile Application Performance and Security Resilience Test Tool
Tuesday, June 14, 2016 by Richard Harris
Ixia has released the new Ixia Developer platform, an agile application performance and security resilience tool that helps developers find bugs and vulnerabilities early in the development process.Ixia Developer offers a virtualized solution that generates realistic application traffic along with malicious attacks and automated threats, enabling developers to find bugs...
Fog Creek Launches HyperDev Quick Code Web App Product
Friday, June 3, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Fog Creek Software has launched a new rapid online web app development product, HyperDev, which offers a developer platform for building full-stack web apps combining automated deployment, instant hosting, and collaborative editing.The platform has been in closed beta for several months and is now in open beta. HyperDev works by providing developers access directly into...
Insight Into Growing an APIDriven Business
Friday, February 12, 2016 by Richard Harris
Fast on the heels of Visa’s recent announcement of its Visa Developer platform, Visa and API management firm Apigee have published a new eBook titled "Growing Your Business with APIs," which examines the process of how to build an API-driven business, how to choose the right API initiative, and how to get a fast start with leveraging APIs.Visa has hopped into API’...
Building A Developer Centric Platform Is Critical for Application Industry Providers
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 by Richard Harris
We reached out to David Lee, VP of Platform Products at RingCentral, to talk about the why it is important for companies that offer products in the application development industry to host a robust developer platform. RingCentral launched a new developer platform last spring and Lee discusses what the company has learned in offering a “best practices” philosophy for dev...
Nuance Releases Voice Recognition IoT Development Platform
Friday, December 18, 2015 by Richard Harris
Nuance Communications has launched Nuance Mix, a new developer platform for mobile and consumer electronics. Currently available as a limited release beta via the Nuance Developers program, the development platform gives device makers and developers the ability to create customized voice and natural language Internet of Things (IoT) segments such as smart home, gaming, ...
Developers Can Now Use RingCentral To Integrate Business Communications Into Apps
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The RingCentral Connect Platform, currently in beta, is an open, self-service platform that allows developers to integrate business communications logic into enterprise applications. The platform opens APIs to expose the entire RingCentral cloud-based business communications system as an open platform.The platform offers a family of cloud APIs and SDKs that provides dev...
Pinterest to Open APIs to App Developers
Wednesday, May 13, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Pinterest is launching a new developer platform, offering a suite of APIs for app developers to build apps and integrations that utilizing Pins. This is the first time the company has opened up API access for the development of consumer apps and they are currently hosting a beta program where developers in the U.S. can sign up for API access. The Platform will enab...
Updates on the Windows 10 Developer Platform Strategy and Universal App Platform
Tuesday, March 10, 2015 by Richard Harris
Microsoft is planning to take all of us down a platform convergence journey with Windows 10 – the question is, are we riding a Donky or a Porsche? That sounds harsh, but the Windows 8 experience left many underwhelmed and confused. However, in a world of wet behind the ears startups, Microsoft benefits from the long view as the industry is still in the infancy figu...
PayStand Releases API Providing Mobile and Web App Checkout and Payment Process for Bitcoin, eCheck and Credit Cards
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
PayStand is launching the PayStand API which combines a solution for accepting Bitcoin, eCheck and credit cards. Developers can create desktop and mobile checkout experiences that retain a simple one-click checkout experience. With PayStand’s new API, developers can integrate the PayStand software into any platform, making the user experience smooth and convenient.Payst...
IBM to Offer iOS Enterprise Solutions Plus They Will Sell Enterprise Enabled iPhones and iPads
Wednesday, July 16, 2014 by Richard Harris
My, my how the world has changed. Remember the 80’s when IBM led the PC charge and Apple’s Mac was the little engine that could. General sentiment was that PC’s were for serious work and Macs for the more artistically slanted.Not anymore as the iPhone and iPad reign supreme and PC sales continue to plunge like a flaming meteor. And now IBM and Apple are teaming up in a ...
Google Acquires Appurify to Help Streamline Android App Testing
Friday, June 27, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
One of the announcements to come out of Google I/O is the company’s acquisition of Appurify, which provides automation optimization and testing for websites and apps. Google Ventures had invested in the company so their interest and purchase is not surprising.Here is what Appurify posted on their website about the acquisition:We’re thrilled to announce that we’re joinin...
SmartThings Provides Developers Opportunity to Create Apps with New IoT Platform
Tuesday, May 27, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
SmartThings has unveiled its next phase of its Internet of Things (Iot) offering with the formal rollout of the SmartThings Platform, a smart home partner ecosystem that currently includes over 5,000 developers. The new platform allows developers to reach consumers who will use SmartThings to make their home a smart home by installing connected devices and controll...
Sick of Waiting For App Store Review Optimizely Opens Beta
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Optimizely for iOS is an optimization platform for native iOS apps that allows developers to push once and iterate daily, without waiting for App Store review. Optimizely for iOS is now available in beta.With Optimizely for iOS developers can make visual changes to an app in real time with no code required. The one-time installation lets developers get started...
Microsoft Announces New App Developer Opportunities at Build, Along With Windows Phone 8.1
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft continues to woo the app development community and announced several new new developer opportunities at Build 2014. The emphasis was on the Windows platform as a common platform across devices, a single toolset, a common infrastructure across the Windows and Windows Phone stores, and a clear commitment to interoperability. The company also annou...
