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...
Virtual desktops will gain popularity in 2021
Sunday, January 10, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
Desktops-as-a-service, or virtual cloud desktops, will gain popularity in 2021. These are offerings like Amazon Workspace, Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop, Google Chromebook. The offerings enable the entire environment of workstations to be delivered as a service — a display that connects to personal computing in the cloud. It reduces the in-house infrastructure...
.NET Core 3.0 is here
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has announced the release of .NET Core 3.0. It includes many improvements, including adding Windows Forms and WPF, adding new JSON APIs, support for ARM64 and improving performance across the board. C# 8 is also part of this release, which includes nullable, async streams, and more patterns. F# 4.7 is included and focused on relaxing syntax and targeting .NET ...
NVIDIA's AI platform sets new record
Thursday, August 15, 2019 by Richard Harris
NVIDIA has breakthroughs in language understanding that allow businesses to engage more naturally with customers using real-time conversational AI.
NVIDIA's AI platform is the first to train one of the most advanced AI language models BERT, in less than an hour and complete AI inference in just over 2 milliseconds. This groundbreaking level of performance ma...
CircleCI for Microsoft Windows is here
Wednesday, August 7, 2019 by Richard Harris
CircleCI launched the general availability of support for Windows jobs. Organizations such as Angular, Samsung NEXT are able to achieve further flexibility over their development pipelines with the addition of Windows.
According to Stack Overflow’s 2019 Developer Survey, nearly half of respondents reported building on Windows, yet no native Windo...
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 ...
Windows 10 survey finds enterprises migrating faster than expected
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 by Austin Harris
Adaptiva, a systems management solution, has announced that its annual 2017 Windows 10 Enterprise Impact Survey indicates an unexpected acceleration of Microsoft’s Windows 10 uptake in the enterprise. The newest Adaptiva survey suggests that enterprises have reached a tipping point in their migration to Windows 10, despite a lengthy planning cycle. More enterprises...
DevSecOps will help security and developers play nice
Thursday, June 15, 2017 by Richard Harris
Veracode, a security software company acquired by CA Technologies, has announced the results of a study examining the relationships between application developers and security teams.The study, conducted in conjunction with Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), shows that despite the pervasive belief that security and development teams have conflicting priorities, initiatives...
MWR InfoSecurity Develops a New Kernel Fuzzer to Identify OS Security Vulnerabilities
Saturday, August 6, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
MWR InfoSecurity has announced a new kernel fuzzer implemented to run across Microsoft Windows and POSIX based operating systems. MWR’s kernel fuzzer provides the ability to identify and report OS security vulnerabilities, lowering the attack surface and helping to secure current operating systems.The company points to the fact that kernels are often targeted by a...
IT Professionals Weigh in on the Windows 10 Anniversary Release
Monday, August 1, 2016 by Richard Harris
Adaptiva has the results from its 2016 Windows 10 Enterprise Adoption Survey which polled over 300 IT professionals about the Windows 10 Anniversary OS release.The survey was intended to provide high-level data around adoption rates and the IT department impact of Windows 10 migrations. It also analyzed the potential impact of Microsoft’s Windows 10 Second Anniversary U...
Qt Releases Version 5.7 of Its C++ UI Development Framework Adding 3D Module
Friday, June 17, 2016 by Richard Harris
The Qt Company announces the release of Qt 5.7, the latest version of its cross-platform application and user interface (UI) development framework. Qt 5.7 offers new UI creation opportunities including a new Qt 3D module, as well as new ways to create modern touch-based UIs with Qt Quick Controls 2 and Qt Quick Designer. Qt 5.7 follows the evolution of modern C++, lever...
Red Hat's Release of Ansible 2.1 Supports Network Automation
Wednesday, June 1, 2016 by Richard Harris
Red Hat has announced the general availability of Ansible 2.1, the latest version of the company’s agentless open source IT automation framework. Ansible provides developers with the ability to deploy IT applications and environments by automating routine activities such as network configuration, cloud deployments, and creation of development environments. Ansible ...
New Security Report Reveals Increased Threat for Mobile Applications
Sunday, February 21, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
According to a new cyber security report, mobile applications increasingly have become top security threats plaguing enterprises over the past year. The details are outlined in the recently published Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Cyber Risk Report 2016.As the company points out in the report, traditional network perimeters are disappearing allowing attack surfaces to...
Marmalade Updates Include Support for iOS 9, Android M and Windows 10
Friday, September 25, 2015 by Richard Harris
Marmalade latest release of its cross platform development environment offers a triple play as it adds support for Apple’s new iOS 9 update, Google’s soon to be released Android M and Microsoft’s Windows 10.The V7.9 update was timed to match with Apple’s roll-out of iOS 9 and will help developers ensure that games and apps made with Marmalade are fully compatible with t...
Intel's New System Studio 2016 Enhances Performance of Embedded Applications
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 by Richard Harris
Intel’s new System Studio 2016 offers an updated suite of tools and technologies to help speed delivery of energy-efficient, high-performance, smart, connected devices across wide-ranging system and embedded platforms.To analyze performance bottlenecks, Intel System Studio 2016 provides tools to help developers understand the performance behavior of systems and embedded...
Autodesk Releases New Stingray 3D Game Engine
Monday, August 10, 2015 by Richard Harris
Game developers will be able to take a test drive of Autodesk’s new Stingray game engine beginning on August 19, 2015.The new game engine is built on the Bitsquid engine, which Autodesk purchased in 2014, offering a new platform for making 3D games. The engine supports a number of industry-standard game development workflows and includes connectivity to Autodesk’s 3D an...
DevCenter 1.4 From DataStax Now Formally Supporting JSON
Thursday, July 23, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
DataStax specializes in offering Apache Cassandra in a database platform for IoT, web and mobile applications. The company has announced the general availability of DataStax DevCenter 1.4, a visual development tool for Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise which now provides formal support for JSON data management with visual developer capabilities that provides the ability...
Oracle Releases Latest Version of VM VirtualBox Virtualization Software
Monday, July 13, 2015 by Richard Harris
Oracle has released VM VirtualBox 5.0, the latest release of its free and open source, cross-platform virtualization software now offering increased security with encryption and improved performance. The product is designed to enable the use of a wide range of virtual machine environments easily on standard desktop and laptop computers, and offer simple deployment to a ...
Windows 10 Developers Prepare For Takeoff
Friday, June 26, 2015 by Richard Harris
With Windows 10 being released on July 29, 2015 the Windows 10 team continues to provide updates on things that are new for developers and things you can do to get ready now.There will be more rapid announcements as the team will start releasing previews of the Windows 10 SDK more often to Windows Insiders. Expect to see more rapid releases of the Windows 10 SDK preview...
Dell Forms New IoT Division Whose First Release is IoT Gateways Device
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Dell has formed a new IoT product division offering partnerships with operational technology organizations with a goal of bridging the domains of operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT). The division will provides support for a broad range of Internet of Things offerings including security, manageability, services, analytics, infrastructure, and endp...
Developers Can Now Use JavaScript to Create Cocos2d Games on Windows Platforms
Saturday, April 11, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
MS Open Tech has announced that it has contributed JavaScript support for Cocos2d-x for Modern Windows. With this version of Chukong Technology’s Cocos technologies, named Cocos2d-JS, developers who program in JavaScript can now create Cocos2d games that will run on Microsoft Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 platforms. The Cocos2d-x engine is exposed via a set of ...
Intel’s Meshcentral to Support Microsoft Windows for IoT
Saturday, March 7, 2015 by Richard Harris
Intel’s Meshcentral is an open source and is both a peer-to-peer technology with a wide array of uses and web service that is targeted for remote monitoring and management of computers and devices. Users can manage all their devices - from large servers to tiny IoT devices - from a single web site, no matter the location of the computers or if they are behind routers or...
MediaTek Releases Platform to Create Wi Fi Enabled IoT Devices and Wearables
Tuesday, February 10, 2015 by Richard Harris
MediaTek has released the MediaTek LinkIt Connect 7681 IoT development platform. Based on MediaTek’s MT7681 Wi-Fi System on Chip (SoC), the new platform provides developers and manufacturers with the tools to create simple Wi-Fi enabled IoT devices that can be controlled from smartphones or the Internet.To enable developers to take advantage of the features of the MT768...
New Master Of Applications Development Course
Tuesday, December 16, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
If you always dreamed of becoming a mobile app developer, there is a new Master Of Applications Development Course by Charles Stuart University. CSU's Master of Mobile Applications Development lets students have the opportunities to develop apps for any of the major platforms.Through the Master Of Applications Development Course students can develop on pl...
Intel Releases New INDI Toolkit for Android and Windows Mobile Cross Platform Development
Monday, October 20, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Intel has released the Intel Integrated Native Developer Experience 2015 toolkit (Intel INDE) which is a cross-platform productivity suite that provides developers with tools, support, integration and updates to create C++/Java applications for Android and Windows applications on ARM and Intel architectureBundled within Intel INDE are tools to facilitate the application...
New Extension for Visual Studio Released to Create HTML5 Apps Using C# and XAML
Tuesday, September 30, 2014 by Richard Harris
A new extension for Visual Studio has been released in beta that allows developers to create cross-platform HTML5 applications exclusively using C# and XAML. The extension, which is named "C#/XAML for HTML5", is available in beta for free to the first 5000 developers who sign up.The tool is designed for the developers who use Microsoft languages and tools (C#,...
Cross Platform Development Tool Mono Offers Updates
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Mono is a software platform designed to allow developers to create cross platform applications. Sponsored by Xamarin, Mono is an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime. The release of Mono 3.6 offers a number of enhancements and bug fixes. These include improvements in the debugger...
Red Hat Announces General Availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 by Richard Harris
Red Hat has announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, the latest release of the company’s flagship platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 offers a foundation that enables the ability to balance modern demands while reaping the benefits of computing innovation, like Linux Containers and big data, across physical systems, virtual machines and the ope...
Explore the Possibilities of Using Handwriting Recognition in Your App With MyScript's Superimposed
Friday, May 2, 2014 by Richard Harris
My Script's new SDK (Software Development Kit) allows third-party app developers to leverage handwriting recognition technology for natural human machine interface development on small surface devicesMyScript®, the acknowledged market leader in accurate, high-performance handwriting recognition and digital ink management technology, announces the release of MyScript Sup...
Intel’s Updated App Framework 2.1 JavaScript Library for HTML5 Mobile App Development
Thursday, April 24, 2014 by Richard Harris
The Intel App Framework JavaScript library is a cross-platform UI library built for mobile HTML5 apps. The UI styles in this library are designed to adapt to a target platform (Google Android, Apple iOS, Microsoft Windows 8, and new RIM Blackberry devices) so apps can have a target-specific look and feel. The App Framework library also includes an optiona...
Intel Brings a New 64 bit Processor To Android Named Merrifield
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Intel is expanding its footprint in mobile with several announcements released at the Mobile World Congress.
From a hardware standpoint, Intel announced its Merrifield 2.13GHz Intel Atom processor Z3480 for Android smartphones and tablets. The 64-bit ready processor is based on Intel's 22nm Silvermont micro architecture and features a PowerVR Series 6 Graphics ...
Microsoft Offers Unity Game Developers New Incentive Program to Develop Windows Apps
Saturday, February 22, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
In an effort to continue to populate its Windows app market, Microsoft is incentivizing Unity developers to create Windows apps. Developers who qualify will receive complimentary Windows store registration, a Microsoft Windows 8 license, a Windows device (phone/tablets), a promotional package and technical assistance.Any Unity developer using Unity 4...
Windows Phone App Studio Beta Receives Updates
Friday, February 21, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has released new updates to its Windows Phone App Studio Beta, the app building platform for those wanting to create content-based apps, but may not have a strong app development background.
Included in the release is a redesigned UI which updates the most-used actions and streamlines the workflow, to make tasks faster and easier to execute. Also new i...
Microsoft and Xamarin Partner to Encourage Development of Native iOS and Android Apps With C# and Visual Studio
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Xamarin and Microsoft have established a partnership to help developers write native apps for iOS, Android and Windows in C#. At the heart of the partnership is a technical collaboration to better integrate Xamarin technology with Microsoft developer tools and services.
Through the partnership Portable Class Library (PCL) projects are now fully supported on both iOS an...
Corona to Offer Game Developers Support of Windows Platform in 2014
Wednesday, October 30, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Developers using the Corona SDK will soon be able to launch their apps on the Windows Phone 8 and Windows Store platforms, according to a blog post on Microsoft’s Dev blog. Currently Corona supports iOS, Android, Kindle Fire and NOOK all from a single code base.
No specific date has been given for the Windows support other than first quarter 2014. Corona also recently ...
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