Corona labs goes open source and developers are nervous
Tuesday, January 8, 2019 by Richard Harris
Corona Labs, which provides a free cross-platform mobile development tool used to create 2D applications, has announced that after years of planning, the Corona game engine will finally be released as an open-source project. Corona Labs expects that by making their engine an open-source project, issues like adaptation to sudden market changes, updates, and requirements ...
NVIDIA's new TITAN RTX is a deep learning beast aimed at developers
Wednesday, December 5, 2018 by Richard Harris
NVIDIA has just announced the TITAN RTX - dubbed T-Rex, driven by NVIDIA Turing architecture at a conference in Montreal. The new card delivers 130 teraflops of deep learning performance and 11 GigaRays of ray-tracing performance. Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA says, "Turing is NVIDIA’s biggest advance in a decade, fusing shaders, ray tracing, a...
Twitter and KaiOS take on KaiOSpowered smart feature phones
Wednesday, November 21, 2018 by Joyce Shen
Imagine you’re a seasoned designer for smartphones working with ever-expanding resources, including memory, CPU speed, and screen resolution. Then, one day, your manager gives you an assignment to work on a device that has less of all this and doesn’t even have a touchscreen!
This is what happened to some of the designers at Twitter and KaiOS, all of whom...
More companies want fairness to open source license enforcement
Monday, November 12, 2018 by Richard Harris
Red Hat, Inc. has announced that Adobe, Alibaba, Amadeus, Ant Financial, Atlassian, Atos, AT&T, Bandwidth, Etsy, GitHub, Hitachi, NVIDIA, Oath, Renesas, Tencent, and Twitter have joined an ongoing industry effort to combat harsh tactics in open source license enforcement by adopting the GPL Cooperation Commitment. By making this commitment, these 16 corporate leader...
Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) now available
Tuesday, October 25, 2016 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has released an updated version of Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, a system for deep learning that is used to speed advances in areas such as speech and image recognition and search relevance on CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs.The latest version of the toolkit, which is available on GitHub via an open source license, includes new functionality that lets developers use Pytho...
A world without software licenses
Thursday, October 6, 2016 by Patrick McFadin
I’ve been in this industry long enough to hear predictions of the future and witness them fail or succeed. Remember client-server computing? Yeah. They can be fun or insightful about macro trends, but each one has a probability of failure. I think I have a prediction that has zero percent chance of failure.
There is a point in the future when no one will buy a so...
Realm Mobile Platform Launches So You Can Make Apps With RealTime Features
Tuesday, September 27, 2016 by Richard Harris
Realm just announced the Realm Mobile Platform, a giant step forward for any organization that must build highly responsive mobile apps that deliver unmatched user experiences. The Realm Mobile Platform, which is available immediately, combines the Realm Mobile Database, the most popular mobile third party database in the world, and the new Realm Object Server to d...
Windows Dev Center Updates Coding4Fun Coding Site
Wednesday, January 6, 2016 by Richard Harris
The Windows Dev Center team has relaunched Coding4Fun with new content for the Universal Windows Platform. Coding4Fun is a site within the Windows Dev Center that’s offers fun and interesting code samples that feature the APIs available on the Universal Windows Platform. The site offers different, unique, and time-saving capabilities as you noodle around the project bas...
Respoke Launches WebRTC Functionally for iOS and Android
Wednesday, August 12, 2015 by Richard Harris
Respoke’s WebRTC platform facilitates building out live audio, video and chat features into a mobile app or website. The company has recently launched mobile SDKs for iOS and Android, providing the ability to offer live communications features for native mobile applications.Respoke's new open source mobile SDKs are being released under a permissive open source license a...
Telerik Launches JavaScript Open Source Network for Web Developers to Build Native Apps
Monday, March 16, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Telerik announced the beta availability of NativeScript, an open source framework enabling developers to use JavaScript to build native mobile apps running on all major mobile platforms, including Apple iOS, Google Android and upcoming for Windows Universal. The NativeScript framework is designed to be familiar to developers who are comfortable with web technologie...
The Linux Foundation Announces Guide to Building and Deploying to the Open Cloud
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 by Richard Harris
The 2015 “Guide to the Open Cloud: Open Cloud Projects Profiled” is The Linux Foundation’s second publication on the open cloud, which was first published in October 2013. The updated guide adds new projects and technology categories that have gained importance in the past year. The report covers well-known projects like Cloud Foundry, OpenStack, Docker and Xen Project,...
Ford releases AppLink as BSD open source
Tuesday, March 5, 2013 by Richard Harris
Ford is establishing an open-source Genivi project that will contain the code and documentation necessary to implement AppLink software into any vehicle’s infotainment system for iOSand Android devices. The code, known as SmartPhoneLink, will be released under a BSD open-source license.Our Take:This is a smart move for Ford because developers are approaching "...
