AI is becoming more widespread in collaboration tools
Thursday, April 9, 2026 by Richard Harris
Artificial intelligence is moving from pilot projects and isolated features to the connective fabric of enterprise collaboration and communications. Across meetings, chat, calling, contact centers, and the business applications that surround them, AI is becoming a practical tool that links people, workflows, and data. AI reach and influence on collaboration and communic...
Accelerating corporate ai investment returns
Monday, March 30, 2026 by Russ Scritchfield
AI investments across industries struggle to pay off. Record spending on artificial intelligence has yet to translate into record earnings impact. Global enterprise budgets for AI are surging past three hundred billion dollars, generative models command attention, and board agendas are crowded with AI priorities. Yet many leadership teams still wrestle with a basic ques...
Private Repository Secures the AI-driven Development Boom
Friday, March 27, 2026 by Austin Harris
ActiveState has launched ActiveState Curated Catalog. This new offering provides organizations with a private, secure repository of open source components from the ActiveState Library, giving developers and AI code generators access to vetted packages from a trusted internal source instead of pulling them directly from the open internet.
Directly pulling open source ...
AI model poisoning is real and we need to be aware of it
Monday, February 16, 2026 by Richard Harris
On a clear night I set up my telescope in the yard and let the mount hum along while the camera gathers light from something distant and patient. The workflow is a ritual. Focus by eye until the airy disk tightens. Shoot test frames and watch the histogram. Capture darks, flats, and bias frames so the quirks of the sensor can be cleaned away later. That discipline is no...
AI becomes a go-to health resource as hospital access strains
Friday, January 16, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
As OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, allowing users to connect medical records and wellness apps for AI-driven health guidance, a new survey from Drip Hydration confirms Americans are increasingly turning to AI for medical advice. The nationwide survey explores the motivations, demographics, and regional trends behind this growing phenomenon. The data reveals where a...
Ambition launches new app to empower frontline revenue managers
Wednesday, January 7, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
Ambition has expanded its platform with the release of a new mobile app, extending familiar performance intelligence tools into a format designed for managers who spend much of their time away from a desk. At first glance, the app looks intentionally restrained, mirroring the structure and logic users already know. That appears to be the point. Most frontline revenue ma...
QAD ignites a new era of operational AI in manufacturing
Tuesday, January 6, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
QAD has reached a moment that feels less like a product release and more like a change in posture. The company’s latest announcements point away from manufacturing systems that primarily document what has already happened and toward platforms designed to participate in what comes next. At first glance, the updates fit naturally into QAD’s long-standing focus...
Tebex Predictions for 2026
Tuesday, December 9, 2025 by Austin Harris
2025’s fight for developer choice and fair platform fees brought us a turning point in digital monetization: Google’s settlement allowed lower Play Store fees but also opened the door to rival third-party app stores on Android. This set a precedent that will create lasting momentum that snowballs into 2026, where alternative payment systems will continue to ...
Relic research shows high impact IT outages carry $76M median year
Thursday, October 23, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
New Relic released its 2025 Observability Forecast, the industry’s most comprehensive report on the state of observability. Surveying over 1,700 IT and engineering leaders and team members across 23 countries and 11 industries, the report highlights key focus areas, challenges, and trends influencing observability investments like the growing adoption of enterpris...
Tiledmedia unveils how a durable cross-platform player fuels streaming
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 by Richard Harris
Tiledmedia is using IBC 2025 (Stand 5.F83) to demonstrate how its pioneering Tiledmedia Player helps service providers launch innovations faster, reap transformative return on technology investment, and deliver loyalty-generating viewer experiences.
This September in Amsterdam, the company will reveal the Tiledmedia Player’s full set of capabilities that c...
AI guided surgery makes solo operations a step toward automation
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 by Austin Harris
A surgical team in Chile recently demonstrated how artificial intelligence can reduce reliance on human assistants in the operating room. Using an autonomous camera system, a surgeon completed a gallbladder removal without the need for another professional to manually manage the laparoscopic view. The achievement illustrates how targeted automation can streamline surgic...
OpenAI introduces GPT-5
Thursday, September 4, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
OpenAI recently introduced GPT-5 as the most advanced AI system so far, with a significant leap in intelligence over previous models. It featured state-of-the-art performance in coding, math, writing, health, visual perception, and more. GPT-5 was described as a unified system that could determine when to respond quickly and when to spend more time reasoning to giv...
College is not necessary for big tech jobs
Wednesday, August 27, 2025 by Austin Harris
Code, culture, and competitive edge: Who’s winning the engineering talent game? Every Engineering Leader Wants to Build a Company That Attracts Top Developers
In 2025, attracting top developers is more challenging than ever. A competitive pay package is table stakes, remote flexibility is expected, and AI is reshaping how teams operate and what engineers value.
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Why SLOs are a key tool
Monday, August 18, 2025 by Austin Harris
Modern digital products now operate at scales that would have seemed impossible just a decade ago. YouTube processes over 500 hours of video every minute, Amazon processes around 12 million orders each day, and large cloud platforms and advertising systems serve billions of real-time requests.
At this level, a failure is a business risk, a user experience problem, an...
KNP ransomware attack
Wednesday, August 6, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
One of the UK's oldest transport companies, KNP Logistics Group, collapsed under the weight of a ransomware attack that began with a single guessed password. The company, founded in 1865 and known primarily through its “Knights of Old” fleet, had survived world wars, economic upheavals, and generational shifts in the freight industry. But it could not su...
New Developer Features in Oracle 23.7
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 by Austin Harris
Oracle Corporation recently announced the general availability of Oracle Database 23.7, a release that delivers several new features specifically designed to improve developer productivity, simplify data handling, and accelerate performance across diverse workloads.
New Developer Features in Oracle 23.7: Highlights
This latest update reflects Oracle’s contin...
Apple's WWDC 2025: Innovation for everyone except app developers
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 by Richard Harris
Apple’s WWDC 2025 keynote was a spectacle of contrasts. On one hand, it dazzled developers with a Liquid Glass design aesthetic and a boatload of polished features across iOS, macOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and more. They even threw in some whimsical flair, from cheeky Formula 1 references to a piano man crooning App Store reviews on stage. It felt like Apple was serenad...
2025 Mobile Gaming Report
Friday, May 30, 2025 by Austin Harris
The mobile gaming industry in 2025 is characterized by dynamic growth, evolving monetization models, shifting market geographies, and increasingly sophisticated player engagement strategies. According to Appfigures’ comprehensive analysis of the top 1,000 revenue-generating mobile games across both the App Store and Google Play, the global mobile games market reac...
GenAI assistant Tricentis qTest Copilot lands from Tricentis
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 by Richard Harris
Tricentis announced the expansion of its test management and analytics platform, Tricentis qTest, with the launch of Tricentis qTest Copilot. The latest addition to its suite of generative AI-powered Tricentis Copilot solutions, qTest Copilot harnesses the power of generative AI to simplify and accelerate test case generation, allowing for greater test coverage and high...
AI social media management assistant Hookle
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
Hookle, the AI-powered social media assistant, has introduced a comprehensive AI-driven social media app designed to simplify and democratize marketing for micro businesses. The app manages a micro business's entire social media process, utilizing AI at every step - from easy account setup and content creation to posting and performance analysis - all in one place, ...
Future of software development and AI explored in new survey
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 by Russ Scritchfield
As the reach of artificial intelligence (AI) expands, IT leaders are exploring new use cases for technology used throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC), according to a new survey launched today titled "AI in software development: Exploring opportunities and uncertainties" by OutSystems, a global leader transforming how companies innovate thr...
Unified iOS report from Singular
Monday, August 19, 2024 by Richard Harris
Singular recently announced its new proprietary measurement methodology: Unified Measurement. The new Unified iOS Report, utilizing our Unified Measurement technology, is already live to all Singular customers and provides unified and accurate reporting for all iOS mobile marketers’ paid, organic, and owned media app installs.
Singular customers have repo...
Mobile banking soars above online banking
Wednesday, August 7, 2024 by Russ Scritchfield
With mobile banking usage set to soar, a new study has revealed which states are leading the way, with Florida emerging as the most financially tech-savvy state.
The study, conducted by software development company Vention, utilized Google Keyword Planner to analyze the nationwide Google search volume behind various keywords related to mobile banking - includi...
Veracode acquires Longbow Security
Thursday, April 18, 2024 by Austin Harris
Veracode announced the acquisition of Longbow Security, a security risk management platform for cloud-native environments. The acquisition marks the next exciting phase of Veracode, underscoring the company’s commitment to help organizations effectively manage and reduce application risk across the growing attack surface.
The integration of Longbow in...
Tom Brady NFT sale sparks warning to consumers from experts
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 by Austin Harris
An expert has warned those considering purchasing an NFT off the back of the Tom Brady $40.7k sale, as NFT marketplaces saw $38 million stolen by scammers last year.
The findings, pulled together by Smart Betting Guide, analyzed a database recording crypto scams and exploits to identify the most vulnerable platforms and blockchains over the last year - with NFT marke...
F5 NGINX One SaaS early access opens
Thursday, February 15, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
At AppWorld, we are introducing and opening "early access" for NGINX One: a global SaaS offering for deploying, securing, monitoring, scaling, and managing all NGINX instances (whether they are on-prem, in the cloud, or at the edge), and all from a single management interface. It supports all our data plane components - NGINX Plus, NGINX Open Source, NGIN...
Cybersecurity performance optimization updates from Logpoint
Friday, February 2, 2024 by Austin Harris
Logpoint is releasing new capabilities to its Converged SIEM platform, enhancing threat detection and security operations and streamlining case management. Organizations can focus on essential security matters with the new capabilities by reducing workload, simplifying automation, and freeing up resources.
The new release delivers increased system stability and ...
Kubernetes optimizations land from PerfectScale
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 by Richard Harris
PerfectScale announced that they have successfully closed $7.1 million in seed funding, led by Blumberg Capital with participation from Upwest, Prelude Ventures, K2 Access Fund, Inner Loop Capital, Triangle Tweener Fund, and Firestreak Ventures. The latest investment brings the company’s total funding to nearly $10 million, since its founding in March, 2022.
Wi...
TikTok sister app remains major money spinner for ByteDance
Friday, September 29, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
While TikTok continues dominating the social media space as the fastest-growing app in the market's history, its sister app, Douyin, remains the major money spinner for Chinese tech giant ByteDance.
According to data presented by OnlyAccounts.io, as the highest-grossing iPhone app globally, Douyin grossed $372 million in July or nearly 30% more than TikTok.
Ti...
Automating network resilience optimization during challenging times
Friday, May 12, 2023 by Tracy Collins
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past many months, the term "tech layoffs" is one you have undoubtedly heard repeated over and over again in the news cycle, and there's a good chance you are already sick of it. This year alone, no less than 40,000 workers at marquee companies like Alphabet, Microsoft, Spotify, and Amazon were given the...
Tight labor markets will remain in 2023
Tuesday, January 31, 2023 by Richard Harris
Nearly 2M fewer professionals immigrated to the US as a result of the pandemic. Combined with overall demographic shifts, that means today’s tight labor markets aren’t going away. Companies must arm employees with the tools and processes to be as effective as possible while empowering them to be self-aware and set limits and goals that ensure well-being.
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Keeping startups agile and pivoting with MVPs
Wednesday, August 24, 2022 by Yasser Jilani
With low budgets and little time, startups need to react with speed and agility to launch products. Our product sat (and still sits) in the global online e-learning market, sized at approximately 250 billion US dollars in 2020, with the US contributing to 47% growth. The market was fierce and competitive, especially for new startups entering the market.
Minimum viabl...
Productive developers prefer quality code
Monday, July 11, 2022 by Richard Harris
New research from Rollbar, a provider of real-time error monitoring Software as a Service, indicates that nearly a third (32%) of CTOs, developers, engineers, and technical leads feel the most productive when they are creating better quality code and not just more code. Nearly as many (28%) said that meeting and exceeding their managers’ expectations is what ...
Apple WWDC 2022 announcements
Thursday, June 9, 2022 by Austin Harris
"The release of iOS 16 promises the ability to customize the phone’s lock screen to an incredible degree, allowing users to change every aspect of the look of their screen. The new Live Activities feature also helps to avoid being bombarded with notifications.
Letting users have different lock screens for different purposes like work or personal is an inte...
App-ocalypse due to ad and privacy regulations
Friday, May 20, 2022 by Richard Harris
The App-ocalypse', the new report from Bango reveals that marketers are experiencing a negative impact on their bottom line due to new ad regulations and privacy changes. The research revealed that 59% of marketers have lost revenue since Apple's IDFA changes, the phasing out of third-party cookies by Google, new privacy updates, and changing ad regulations.
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