Emerging features to consider for mobile app development
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 by Richard Harris
In an era where mobile applications are ubiquitous, with a staggering 8.93 million apps vying for attention across various app stores, distinguishing your app from the competition is paramount. While aesthetics undoubtedly play a role in user attraction, it is the functionality and features of an app that truly captivate and retain users. Whether you are embarking on yo...
Microsoft outage caused by software update from CrowdStrike
Tuesday, July 23, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
On July 18, a software update released by CrowdStrike, an independent cybersecurity firm, began to affect IT systems worldwide. Although Microsoft was not directly responsible for the incident, the impact on their ecosystem prompted the company to take immediate action to support their customers.
Microsoft outage caused by software update from CrowdStrike affect...
Otomi Kubernetes engineering platform from Red Kubes
Thursday, March 21, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
A prototype constructed as part of a recent platform engineering adoption research showcases an unprecedented deployment time for a completely new app - just 22 minutes. This commendable feat is in stark contrast to other modern cloud deployments, which usually take 7 to 8 hours to deploy a new app. In traditional deployments, the delivery time will typically take much ...
Galactic Acres mobile game anticipated to launch early 2024
Monday, October 23, 2023 by Freeman Lightner
Good Gaming, Inc. has announced its first mobile game from its strategic partnership with ViaOne Services. Galactic Acres represents a definitive leap forward for our company. With addictive gameplay, community-building initiatives, and cutting-edge Web3 experiences, Galactic Acres aims to revolutionize the mobile gaming landscape. We will offer a plethora of ...
JSON RPC Hedera integration brings EVM tools and wallets
Monday, August 21, 2023 by Richard Harris
JSON-RPC is now openly accessible and ready for in-production application use on the Hedera network, the open-source, leaderless proof-of-stake public network. By incorporating JSON-RPC support, Hedera fosters increased interoperability and greater EVM equivalence, streamlining the Web3 development experience for developers and infrastructure providers. As an open-sourc...
3D social app Peer is available now
Wednesday, August 16, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
Peer Inc. has announced the launch of a new social app that the company describes as the ultimate global launchpad for next-generation digital experiences. The Peer app, now available for iOS, is built on a proprietary ecosystem that promises to offer new ways to create, interact and explore.
"All the world’s a game and Peer makes everyone a player. Get re...
ADAS technology driving the automotive software market
Monday, September 26, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
Diverse industries strive to adapt as quickly as possible to the rapid transition to digital technology. Software and mobile applications have made things so straightforward and practical that business owners may maximize their use of them. Automotive software is a set of programmable data instructions for executing computer-based in-vehicle applications. Automotive sof...
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...
AI ML and IoT trends in 2022
Thursday, January 6, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
Rob Gibbon, Product Manager at Canonical, and Gabriel Aguiar Noury, Robotics Product Manager at Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu discuss their predictions and AI/ML & IoT trends in 2022.
AI ML and IoT Prediction - Rob Gibbon:
Whilst the AI/ML adoption trend accelerates, shadow IT environments and ungoverned cloud run costs will increasingly become an unaccep...
Leveraging connectivity and integration to access new audiences
Tuesday, November 9, 2021 by Daniel Twigg
The need for interconnectivity
Businesses require a wide range of applications across departments to run effectively, and interconnectivity between these applications is becoming more desirable as businesses seek to drive increased efficiencies out of their systems and their staff. Application providers can capitalize on this need for interconnectivity by solving the...
Artificial Intelligence processor Telum coming soon from IBM
Monday, August 23, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
IBM introduced IBM Telum, their new processor that has on-chip acceleration for Artificial Intelligence inferencing.
The Telum Artificial Intelligence processor will be released in the first half of 2022
Here are the key highlights of Telum:
Lightning-Fast Fraud Detection
Telum’s on-chip acceleration for AI inferencing is capable of run...
Getting started with blockchain smart contracts
Thursday, March 11, 2021 by Shaul Kfir
Cryptocurrency garners most of the headlines when it comes to blockchain, but the biggest impact over the long run will come from many other practical uses including banking, property records and healthcare, just to name a few. For all of the different use cases, blockchain apps have one thing in common that should be at the forefront of anything developers are working ...
Low power cellular IoT chipset launched by Sony
Thursday, February 25, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Sony Semiconductor Israel (Sony) announced the launch of the Altair ALT1255, a new low-power NB2 chipset. The ALT1255 is 5G ready, designed with an integrated SIM (iSIM), user MCU, rich application layer, and GSM/GPRS fallback modem.
The ALT1255 chipset empowers device manufacturers to develop low-power, cost-sensitive connected devices at a global scale to mo...
Sandwich Board Development Kit now available from Tuya Smart
Friday, January 24, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Global IoT platform, Tuya Smart announced that its new “Sandwich Board Development Kit” is now available for IoT and connected device developers. The new platform includes a collection of 19 integrated development modules, which can be “layer stacked” like a sandwich to create a complete IoT prototype in less than an hour.
“This kit...
From monolith to microservices: Why Credit Karma made the switch
Thursday, December 12, 2019 by Richard Harris
Credit Karma, the personal finance technology company powering more than 100M members, migrated from monolith to microservices, which they say has vastly increased developer efficiency for its engineering team, which makes up more than half of Credit Karma’s 1000+ employee base.
We caught up with Nick Nance, VP of Engineering at Credit Karma, to chat about w...
DesignCon 2020 schedule announced
Friday, November 8, 2019 by Richard Harris
DesignCon announced its 2020 conference schedule presenting 14 newly refined and reorganized tracks covering a broad range of highly technical sessions, boot camps, tutorials, and more to fit the needs of the hardware design engineering community. Hot topics of interest for this year’s programming include signal integrity (SI) and power integrity (PI) for single-m...
Oculus Connect 6 announcements
Thursday, September 26, 2019 by Richard Harris
Oculus Connect 6 unveiled Facebook Horizon, an interconnected and ever-expanding social VR world where people can explore new places, play games, and build communities - launching in beta in 2020. They announced hand tracking on Oculus Quest, which will enable natural interaction in VR using your own hands, all without the need for a controller, external sensors, gloves...
Blockchain developers get a new ABT wallet from ArcBlock
Tuesday, May 21, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger
ArcBlock has officially released its ABT Wallet giving every user access to their own decentralized identity and the ability to take back control of their digital-selves. Using ArcBlock's unique interconnected blockchain network ABT Network, and Forge Blockchain Application Framework, any developer can now add the ability for any application or service to use decent...
Universal ERC20 to ERC20 bridge releases by POA Network
Monday, December 3, 2018 by Austin Harris
POA Network has released a universal open-source ERC20 to ERC20 bridge. TokenBridge, the simple two-way bridge for ERC20 tokens, enables any project in the Ethereum ecosystem to seamlessly interact with any other project by exchanging ERC20 tokens within a single wallet.
Igor Barinov, POA Network Tech Lead, said: “One of POA Network’s goals is to build th...
5 app development tips to help you avoid disaster
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 by Joe Hanson
Mobile app development: it’s easy and straightforward in the lab, but once your app is deployed to the wild, all bets are off. You need to deliver seamless, fast experiences for users on low-powered devices, in any number of network environments.
When it comes to building mobile apps, uncontrollable user behavior can lead you down the path to death by 1000 pape...
Legacy system gridlock overcome in OutSystems 11
Friday, September 28, 2018 by Richard Harris
OutSystems announced the release of OutSystems 11, a low-code solution to address one of the biggest issues facing IT teams - legacy system gridlock. Building on its low-code platform for web and mobile apps, OutSystems 11 delivers new advanced capabilities to help organizations modernize legacy systems and replace large application portfolios.
“The legac...
Watch your step at Fog World Congress 2018
Wednesday, September 19, 2018 by Richard Harris
When you arrive at Fog World Congress 2018, watch out for the robots. Autonomous mapping robots will be traversing and mapping the venue floor in real-time for conference attendees. It’s fog in action, designed to validate that fog computing systems from various domains can communicate, explained conference organizers.
Scheduled for October 1-3 in San Francisco...
AI computing and HPC just got better with the HGX2 cloud server
Thursday, May 31, 2018 by Richard Harris
NVIDIA has introduced HGX-2, a unified computing platform for both artificial intelligence and high-performance computing in the cloud. The HGX-2 cloud server platform helps provides unique flexibility to support the future of computing. It allows calculations using FP64 and FP32 for scientific computing and simulations, while also enabling FP16 and Int8 for AI training...
Netskope unifies enterprise cloud and web security
Thursday, April 5, 2018 by Austin Harris
Netskope has announced the general availability of Netskope for Web, an expansion of the Netskope Cloud Security platform that enables safe web use for enterprise organizations. Powered by the same cloud-native architecture and patented Cloud XD technology of the award-winning and market-leading Netskope cloud access security broker (CASB), Netskope for Web uniquely und...
Wait, what did NVIDIA just announce
Saturday, March 31, 2018 by Richard Harris
At NVIDIA's annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC), the CEO and founder of NVIDIA, Jensen Huang, made a whole bunch of announcements ranging from computational improvements to self-driving vehicle simulations. If you weren't at the conference to see it all, that's alright because here's the rundown of everything you need to know about the latest technology coming out of...
Expert advice: Tips to help developers cope
Tuesday, February 20, 2018 by Richard Harris
According to a forbes report, being a software developer has it’s perks. From a $168,000 a year average media salary, to being able to have your hand in crafting the Instagrams of tomorrow. But the task of creating flawless code and engineering ideas, comes with challenges.It’s good to share war stories to help each other navigate the waters, so we recently had the chan...
Map of the Internet app gives 3D visualization
Wednesday, December 6, 2017 by Richard Harris
Cogeco Peer 1 has announced an updated and refreshed version of its popular Map of the Internet app, a 3D visualization of the world’s networks and how they are connected.Built as an educational tool for anyone who has ever wondered what the internet actually looks like and how it has evolved, the open source Map of the Internet app for iOS and Android brings to life al...
Blockchain Interoperability Alliance has been formed
Thursday, November 30, 2017 by Richard Harris
Aion, Wanchain, and ICON has announced the formation of the Blockchain Interoperability Alliance. The Alliance came together to develop industry standards, collaborate on research and design, and work towards a shared mission to promote broader adoption of blockchain technology.The inability for independent blockchain protocols to communicate in a decentralized and scal...
The Gates Foundation chats about Mojaloop
Wednesday, November 1, 2017 by Richard Harris
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has released new open-source software for creating payment platforms that will help unbanked people around the world access digital financial services. The software, called Mojaloop, establishes a blueprint for connecting today’s financial services sector and can be used to overcome the barriers to interoperability that banks and ...
Flexera issues warning about Cyberattacks
Tuesday, October 24, 2017 by Austin Harris
As 143 million Equifax consumers continue to pick up the pieces from stolen Social Security numbers, birth dates, drivers’ licenses, addresses and credit card numbers, Flexera has another warning - expect a long tail of incidents and breaches in the months and years to come.Flexera surveyed over 400 software suppliers, Internet of Things (IoT) manufacturers and in-house...
Oracle to use the new NVIDIA Tesla GPU
Wednesday, October 4, 2017 by Richard Harris
Oracle has announced that it will be using the latest Tesla GPU accelerators for its public cloud at Oracle OpenWorld, Don Johnson, the company’s senior vice president of product development. Additionally, he said Oracle will expand its cloud offerings to include Tesla V100 GPUs.“We’re working closely with NVIDIA to provide the next generation of accelerated computing t...
Managed DNS for China to be launched by NS1
Friday, September 1, 2017 by Austin Harris
NS1 announced the launch of Managed DNS for China. With this launch, NS1 brings to market the first managed DNS network within Mainland China to fully support advanced traffic management features.The platform involves a new DNS network comprised of delivery nodes physically located in mainland China that are well-interconnected with major Chinese internet service provid...
On the origin of applications: From monolith to microservices
Monday, July 31, 2017 by Pat Bakey
Computing and biology are often seen as existing on two separate planes: computing relies on order of operations and algorithms, while biology functions on organ systems and bodily processes (although, bio-computing is closing this gap). As different as they may seem, they hold a striking similarity in that they are both governed by natural selection - or in the case of...
Avocarrot Unified SSP for mobile is launched from Glispa
Monday, July 17, 2017 by Richard Harris
Following the announcement of its fourth strategic acquisition, Glispa Global Group, a mobile ad tech company, unveils its newest product offering, Avocarrot, the full-service monetization platform which serves all types of mobile in-app advertising, both programmatic and performance-based. The new platform offers full transparency, control, and ease of use to boost and...
What's happening at IBM Interconnect 2017
Monday, March 20, 2017 by Richard Harris
At IBM Interconnect, IBM’s largest cloud computing event of the year, they have announced a whole laundry list of new news items - like client adoption, tech breakthroughs and work they are doing to arm the next gen of cognitive developers. Here's a brief overview on what you might be missing at their latest event:IBM Cloud announcementsNew software and services designe...
