Does your organization need the iPhone X or not
Thursday, November 30, 2017 by Craig Riegelhaupt
Do I need the new iPhone? No. But, I sure do want it.It’s interesting that with the 10-year (aluminum) anniversary of the device, Apple has gone all glass around stainless steel, doing away with the aluminum frame for its flagship product.Now that the device has been launched, organizations will undoubtedly see a quick spike in broken, lost, and stolen devices - with en...
DevOps in the cloud
Monday, January 23, 2017 by Jeff Klaus
There’s no question that DevOps delivers significant benefits to enterprise IT, including improved productivity and efficiency, shorter time-to-market, more reliable releases and higher levels of end-user satisfaction.Meanwhile, enterprises, attracted by the flexibility and the lack of infrastructure overhead that Cloud solutions offer — advantages that are ever more ap...
Oracle's Cloud Services Now Offers On Premises Datacenter Offering
Monday, March 28, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Oracle has launched the Oracle Cloud at Customer, which allows companies to access Oracle’s cloud services in their datacenter and offers a stack that is 100 percent compatible with the Oracle Cloud but available on-premises. Companies can use the platform for disaster recovery, elastic bursting, dev/test, lift-and-shift workload migration, and a single API and scr...
TrueVault SDK Allows Mobile Developers to Create HIPAA Compliant Apps
Wednesday, September 10, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
TrueVault has announced the new TrueVault SDK for iOS beta which lets iOS developers create HIPAA compliant and secure iOS apps natively.The SDK allows developers to forgo writing custom code. By installing the SDK developers can build a mhealth, wearable or fitness app that can store and manage sensitive data and automatically fulfilling the security requirements of HI...
Acision SDK Allows App Developers to Provide Skype and WhatsApp Like Features
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Acision has released out of beta its Acision SDK via its forge by Acision API platform. With the Acision SDK, developers can incorporate WebRTC functionality, such as video and voice calling, messaging, content sharing and presence into web and native mobile applications. For example, by using Acision’s technology and cloud-based network, companies can integrate cl...
New Regulations to Protect Kids Is Driving Change In the Mobile App Industry
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The European Commission is reporting that Google has agreed to change the way it designates free apps. This is following what the Commission has said have been a large number of complaints in EU countries concerning in-app purchases in online games and in particular, inadvertent purchases by children.According to a recent EU commission announcement, “Google has dec...
Acision Releases New WebRTC SDK for Enterprise
Saturday, June 21, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Acision has launched its WebRTC SDK to allow enterprises to incorporate browser-based WebRTC functionality, such as video and voice calling as well as content sharing, chat and IM sessions, into web and mobile applications.Companies can integrate the latest click-to-call (Voice), video-chat and IP messaging solutions, which can be built into or on top of websi...
3D visualization of the Milky Way galaxy including 100,000 nearby stars for Google Chrome
Thursday, April 4, 2013 by Richard Harris
100,000 Stars is an interactive visualization of the stellar neighborhood created for the Google Chrome web browser. It shows the location of 119,617 nearby stars derived from multiple sources, including the 1989 Hipparcos
mission. Zooming in reveals 87 individually identified stars and our
solar system. The galaxy view is an artist's rendition based on NGC 1232...