Truth TV streaming service launches on web and android
Wednesday, October 23, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), the operator of the social media platform Truth Social, recently announced the launch of its Truth+ TV streaming service on the web.
At player.truthsocial.tv, Truth Social account holders can now access the full range of Truth+ streaming options on computers, laptops, and mobile phones. A limited version of Truth+ remai...
ChatGPT lacks kid suitability
Thursday, October 17, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
While large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 have made incredible
advancements in natural language processing, they come with significant challenges, particularly in children’s education. These models often generate biased content or produce language that is too complex or inappropriate for younger audiences. Studies have shown that LLMs can perpetua...
AI integration challenges software developers
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 by Richard Harris
The promise and perils of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been dominating the headlines with everyone from software developers to students working on ways to integrate it into their daily processes. This burgeoning interest in AI is borne out by the fifth annual Reveal 2024 Top Software Development Challenges survey, which found that the biggest software development ch...
Agile myths busted by Adaptavist
Friday, February 9, 2024 by Jon Kern
Agile methodologies are more essential than ever with the constant demand for businesses to adapt to fast-changing markets and digital transformation continuing its rise. However, the hype around Agile has mistakenly led many to view it as a silver bullet, only to report frustrations that Agile isn’t living up to its full potential. The fact is that many myths and...
Software developers in a post pandemic world
Friday, April 8, 2022 by Ryan Bromley
Covid-19 has changed so much about the world of business. Although society's increasing reliance on digital technology has been obvious for well over a decade, the pandemic has been a harsh test of which companies have been taking note.
Those that had their eyes on the ball were already starting to make the necessary changes. Others, who were more resistant to ch...
App deletion deadline from Apple
Tuesday, March 29, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
Transcend, the platform that allows users to encode privacy across a company's tech stack has released the results of its latest survey of technology decision-makers, which assessed their readiness for Apple's in-app deletion requirements for iOS apps that offer account creation. The findings show that 71 percent of companies surveyed are not fully prepared...
Metaverse video chat app from Bunch
Thursday, February 10, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
Since we started Bunch in late 2017, our vision has always been to build a real-time social network where people come together when they are physically apart and move from experience to experience. And, in our view, the most fun experience to share with friends, is to play games together!
Recapping the past few years
In the past few years, we have seen this v...
Cryptocurrency market report from HyperLinq
Wednesday, February 9, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
2021 will be remembered as the year cryptocurrencies went mainstream with major companies, celebrities, and even nations getting onboard. What’s on the horizon for the coming year?
Cryptocurrency trading platform HyperLinq published its annual Cryptocurrency 2021 Market Overview in conjunction with Benzinga, FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange, and Bybit.
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VMware Tanzu Application Transformer launches
Friday, February 4, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
VMware has announced the general availability of an Application Transformer for VMware Tanzu. Application Transformer for Tanzu is a tool that aids in the discovery, analysis, and containerization of legacy applications thus helping customers to simplify and accelerate their app modernization journey by targeting their re-platforming strategy on the well-known "5...
Apple lacks Metaverse focus
Thursday, February 3, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
Apple’s lack of metaverse focus should not be confused for ignorance, as the company focuses on what it does best, says GlobalData
Following today’s news on Apple’s Q1 2022 earnings results, Emilio Campa, Associate Analyst in the Thematic Team at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers his view:
“Apple has an uncanny a...
webMethods AppMesh announced by Software AG
Friday, April 17, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Software AG unveiled webMethods AppMesh, a configurable control plane for microservices, APIs and service mesh. Built as an extension of Software AG’s industry-leading webMethods API Management Platform, webMethods AppMesh adds application context to service mesh, which provides better agility, management, and governance of microservices as business apps.
Desig...
Container runtime scanning open source software launched by Portshift
Thursday, March 26, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Portshift introduced Kubei Open Source container scanning software. Kubei is a unique open source Kubernetes runtime images scanning solution, presented to invite developer collaboration for the hardening of runtime environments. Kubei identifies which pods were built from vulnerable images or contain newly discovered vulnerabilities, then it couples the Kubernetes info...
Location based mobile advertising fraud is hard to police
Monday, March 18, 2019 by Richard Harris
Mobile ad targeting is a moving target - pun intended, and location data fraud and counterfeiting is a global problem in the advertising ecosystem. Many marketers are unaware of the massive implications that unverified data can have on mobile ad campaigns - it's difficult to geo-target ads that target drive-to-store when the geolocation is wrong or invalid.
Locat...
The importance of diversity in developer recruitment
Wednesday, January 3, 2018 by John Schnipkoweit
Talk of diversity in tech is nothing new, but many leaders in the space are still unsure how to approach it. Here’s why it’s important to a tech company's success and the lessons we've learned along the way to becoming a diverse workforce.Diversity builds stronger teams.In today’s world where knowledge is more commoditized every day, tech workers need more than just tec...
The Intersection of Big Data Analytics and Software Development: Why You Should Be There
Tuesday, September 27, 2016 by Don Vilsack
Despite the proven value of collecting raw software project data and analyzing it to create actionable, easily digested key performance indicators (KPIs), many firms still struggle to extract, analyze, and organize this data into reports—let alone dashboards or scorecards. If this sounds like your organization, don’t be surprised. In my experience, only a handful of fir...
The Challenges of IoT Interconnectivity and How to Tackle Them
Thursday, February 4, 2016 by Rashad Barghouti
The interconnectivity of IoT devices is key to the development of a connected world. If these devices could communicate, possibilities for developers would be endless; however, IoT lacks seamless interoperability, which allows devices to “talk,” or connect, with each other.Many IoT devices, specifically small devices, are not compatible due to varying controls. With Gar...
A Deep Dive Into the Restlet DHC API Testing Platform
Thursday, February 4, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Jérôme Louvel, “Chief Geek” and founder of Restlet, which builds an API Platform as a Service (apiPaaS) to consume, design, develop and deploy APIs in the cloud. Jerome is the founder of Restlet Framework, an open source REST API framework for Java which Restlet, the company, continues to build and maintain. With this Q&A, we discuss th...
In the Year Ahead, Enterprise Mobility Will Hinge on the Back End
Saturday, September 12, 2015 by Cathal McGloin
This year demand for enterprise mobility has escalated. With increasing volume and sophistication of mobile app projects, organizations must now pay special attention to how they integrate mobile apps with back-end systems in an efficient and affordable way. According to a recent survey of global customers at Red Hat, back-end integration and security ranked at the...
Rapid Application Development: Go Native or Go Platform
Monday, August 31, 2015 by Scott Love
As our world has increasingly adopted mobile technologies, developers have struggled with ways to meet the often urgent demands of business users.When iPhone and its iOS were introduced in January 2007, astute software developers certainly took note – but it wasn’t until July 2008 that the mobile app revolution began with the introduction of the App Store in iOS 2. Thir...
Microsoft Releases First Windows 10 Technical Preview for Phones
Saturday, February 14, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has announced its first build of Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones is now available for Windows Insiders. Windows 10 has the same core platform for PCs, tablets and phones, and participating in the program for phones will work much in the same way it has been working for PCs.Microsoft’s Gabe Aul says that this is the earliest publicly available preview t...
50 Percent of CIO's Say App Development Takes Too Long
Friday, November 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
Kinvey, an enterprise Backend as a Services (BaaS) provider shared its latest report revealing that over half (56 percent) of companies spend 7 months to 1 year developing a single app, and close to 20 percent spend more than $500K on each app developed. The main challenge identified is that CIOs believe that app development is too time consuming. The report reveal...
The No Code and Low Code Revolution
Friday, November 21, 2014 by Wayne Byrne
A software revolution is quietly taking place, driven by necessity, and it is going to continue to grow as members of an increasingly tech-savvy workforce confront gaps in core business systems by building their own solutions. With new no-code and low-code development options, it’s now possible for employees to develop their own Cloud-based business applications, e...
HP Launches Cloud Managed Application Self Protection Service
Friday, September 12, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
HP has introduced HP Application Defender, a cloud-managed application self-protection service that provides immediate visibility and actively defends production applications against attacks.As HP said in the recent announcement, “As the number and complexity of enterprise applications grows, the attack surface for exploits increases exponentially, leaving enterpri...
Ford to Use BlackBerry QNX For Next Generation of Sync Technology
Thursday, February 27, 2014 by Richard Harris
BlackBerry has been chosen by Ford Motor Company to be the heart of it's next generation of Sync enabled vehicles using BlackBerry’s QNX Neutrino real-time operating system and the QNX CAR “infotainment". Apparently the switch is being made to reduce licensing costs and improve the flexibility of the technology.Sync is now in it's second generation but when la...
How Do You Get an App The Pains of App Development Contract Work
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 by Peach Pellen
Developing apps for clients can be a great source of income and at times, very rewarding - however it can also be an incredibly infuriating experience. I have found three main kinds of clients who will make the process significantly more miserable than it needs to be.THE "CAN YOU ALSO" CLIENTThis client will tend to give you a really thorough initial outline, which is g...