AI smart builder turns spreadsheets into apps
Friday, April 25, 2025 by Richard Harris
Quickbase, the AI-powered operations platform, today announced new and enhanced AI capabilities to convert spreadsheets into apps and build custom integrations. Leveraging its Smart Builder, Quickbase automates workflows to teams and projects to unlock productivity and drive impact.
AI Smart Builder: Spreadsheets to Apps, in seconds
With so much data and informati...
Universities fighting cybercrime with students
Thursday, April 24, 2025 by Richard Harris
Universities, one of the most popular targets for cybercriminals, are employing a new tool in the fight against cybercrime, their own students.
Over the past few years, universities and colleges around the U.S. have been increasingly hiring students and training them to become analysts in their security operations centers, known as SOCs. Students work alongside...
WWDC 2025 returns June 9
Monday, April 21, 2025 by Richard Harris
Apple recently announced it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) online from June 9 to 13, 2025. Developers and students will also have the opportunity to celebrate in person during a special event at Apple Park on June 9.
Available for free to all developers, WWDC25 will spotlight the latest advancements in Apple software. As part of Apple&rsq...
Kong AI Gateway latest version released
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 by Richard Harris
Kong Inc. announced the launch of the latest version of Kong AI Gateway, which introduces new features to provide the AI security and governance guardrails needed to make GenAI and Agentic AI production-ready. New updates include automated Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines aimed at preventing Large Language Model (LLM) hallucinations and a Personally Identi...
App marketing for Indie Developers 101
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 by Richard Harris
As an indie app developer, standing out in a crowded digital marketplace can feel akin to navigating a vast, uncharted ocean. We often find ourselves grappling with the dual challenges of creating innovative apps while simultaneously trying to master the art of marketing them. Yet, despite the odds, there are strategies and tools that can help us carve out a niche and t...
SingularityNET partners with ATMTA for web3 gaming
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 by Austin Harris
SingularityNET has announced a landmark partnership with ATMTA, Inc., developers of Star Atlas, the visionary on-chain space exploration MMO built on Solana.
The partnership explores the possibility of integrating advanced Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) into one of the top Web3 gaming ecosystems. The union has the potential to take the entire gaming industry a...
KICK streaming launches public API and developer bounty program
Monday, March 31, 2025 by Richard Harris
KICK Dev is launching its most ambitious push yet to fuel innovation on its platform, starting with a $100,000 developer bounty challenge. This open call invites solo developers and teams alike to build brand-new apps that enhance the experience for KICK’s growing viewer base. With judging criteria focused on originality, scalability, and user experience—plu...
Security trade-offs and Xs vulnerabilities
Friday, March 21, 2025 by Richard Harris
The latest cyberattack on X raises an important question: Was this an external attack or a result of internal instability? While hacktivist group Dark Storm has claimed responsibility for the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, it is just as crucial to examine X’s own security posture, particularly in light of the drastic staffing cuts that followed Elon ...
Newgen named in Forrester low-code report
Thursday, March 20, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
Newgen Software has been acknowledged by Forrester among notable vendors in ‘The Low-Code Platforms For Professional Developers Landscape, Q4 2024,’ report, authored by John Bratincevic et al.
In the report, Newgen was recognized among 27 other notable low-code development platform vendors for professional developers. Forrester asked each vendor included ...
AI no-code web app launched by Hostinger
Thursday, March 20, 2025 by Richard Harris
Hostinger is globally launching its AI-powered no-code web app solution, Hostinger Horizons. This new product unlocks web app creation for businesses and individuals with great ideas but no coding skills to bring them to life.
Unlike other AI-powered coding tools, Hostinger Horizons does not require third-party connections to publish and host web apps. With just a fe...
AI development challenges addressed in new update from Mendix
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 by Richard Harris
Mendix recently announced the general availability of Mendix 10.18. The latest release includes new features, performance upgrades, and AI-driven enhancements designed to make software development easier and more accessible.
By combining low-code with the power of AI, Mendix 10.18 provides organizations with:
AI-powered assistance across the entire so...
Alexa transforms personalized AI says GlobalData
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 by Richard Harris
Amazon's unveiling of Alexa+ has ignited significant discussion among social media influencers in the last week of February 2025. The rollout, promising enhanced personalization, context awareness, and agentic actions, has been met with both excitement and reservations. Influencers see that the enhanced Alexa+ has the potential to be a game-changer in providing ...
Red Hat Device Edge deployed to space station
Thursday, March 13, 2025 by Richard Harris
Red Hat, Inc. and Axiom Space, will collaborate on Axiom Space’s Data Center Unit-1 (AxDCU-1), targeted to launch in spring 2025 to the International Space Station. Powered by Red Hat Device Edge, the data processing prototype will conduct tests on the space station and demonstrate initial Orbital Data Center (ODC) capabilities.
The prototype will te...
Native apps in Snowflake
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
Melissa is now available on Snowflake Marketplace. Offering Melissa APIs as Snowflake native apps, and a selection of its comprehensive datasets, Melissa is supporting enterprise users worldwide with enriched customer data for better business intelligence and global customer engagement. This integration simplifies access to Melissa’s high-quality data and ver...
GDC reveals recipients of lifetime achievement and pioneer awards
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 by Austin Harris
Organizers of the 25th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA) have revealed the recipients of two of the awards show’s most prestigious accolades, the honorees of the Lifetime Achievement and Pioneer Awards.
This year, the Lifetime Achievement Award will be shared with the iconic video game writer and director Sam Lake, who’s known for his role...
Generative automation platform Pinkfish AI
Thursday, March 6, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
Pinkfish AI launched a platform that radically changes how enterprises create and manage automations. Now available for use by enterprises anywhere, the Pinkfish Generative Automation platform combines the intuitive interface of generative AI with enterprise-grade reliability to empower anyone, including those in operations, services, and other business units who have n...
Automated code refactoring platform Moderne
Thursday, March 6, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
Moderne announced it has closed $30 million in Series B funding led by Acrew Capital with participation from Morgan Stanley, Amex Ventures, and TIAA Ventures, as well as all previous investors Allstate, Intel Capital, Mango Capital, and True Ventures. The funding is further validation that Moderne is emerging as the only company driving mass-scale code modernizatio...
AI coding security discussion with JFrog
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 by Richard Harris
Eyal Dyment, Vice President of Security Products at JFrog, shares his insights in this Q&A on the crucial considerations for developers and businesses when selecting an AI platform. With AI’s transformative role in coding and software development, Eyal addresses key security risks, the growing reliance on AI-powered technologies, and the steps developers can t...
Developers Alliance announces new board chair
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
The Developers Alliance announced Jake Ward will chair a new board of directors tasked with addressing the mounting public policy challenges facing application developers. Ward co-founded the Alliance in 2012, leaving in 2017 to found developer-focused management platform Data Protocol.
"I’m excited to return to the Developers Alliance at this critical tim...
Origination to distribution technology launched by 129Knots
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 by Richard Harris
Global fintech venture 129Knots has launched with a $10 million investment led by Sing Fuels. Backed by a $500 million deal pipeline, it is set to revolutionize the industry with its real-world asset origination to distribution (OTD) technology.
The OTD technology will reinvent deep-tier industries by delivering and deploying scalable liquidity solutions through secu...
Speech pathology app to help with 4 year wait in Australia
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 by Richard Harris
A first-of-its-kind digital solution is transforming how Australian families access critical speech pathology services. Yarn Speech, founded by Oxford-educated speech pathologist Rebecca Keeley, launches at a crucial time when families face wait times of up to four years for essential speech therapy (Speech Pathology Australia, 2023).
"Speech pathology should be...
Low-latency ingestion and optimization for Apache Iceberg
Monday, January 27, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
Qlik announced the acquisition of Upsolver, a pioneer in real-time data streaming and Apache Iceberg optimization. This move deepens Qlik’s ability to provide enterprises with end-to-end, open and scalable solutions that unify data integration, analytics, and AI under a single platform. The acquisition combines Upsolver’s real-time ingestion to Iceberg and a...
SmartBear announces CEO transition
Friday, January 24, 2025 by Austin Harris
SmartBear has appointed Dan Faulkner, the company’s Chief Product Officer, as Chief Executive Officer. Frank Roe, who has led SmartBear to significant growth over the last five years, will transition from CEO to a strategic advisor role. Dan’s wealth of experience across product leadership, operational management, and global strategy, make him uniquely quali...
2025 global IT spending boosted by AI and hardware demand
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 by Richard Harris
In 2024, global IT spending grew by 8.3%, driven largely by the expansion of generative AI infrastructure and the continued migration of enterprises to public cloud services. Despite global uncertainties, hyperscalers like Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta Platforms ramped up their capital spending, with a nearly 50% increase in data center investments. This contributed to ...
Voice driven navigation solution from Mapbox and Cerence AI
Monday, January 20, 2025 by Richard Harris
Mapbox, the mapping and location services provider, and Cerence Inc. (“Cerence AI”), have announced a partnership in which the companies will integrate Mapbox navigation services and data with Cerence AI’s solutions, including its in-car assistant platform. Together, the companies will deliver a fully integrated, voice-powered navigation solution desig...
AI developer tools and build cycles in 2025
Wednesday, January 15, 2025 by Austin Harris
Devang Shah, Vice President and Practice Leader for Cloud Technologies at WinWire Technologies Inc., offers his insights into the transformative shifts expected in software development by 2025. In this article, he shares his predictions on emerging trends such as AI integration, DevOps evolution, and the rise of low-code platforms, highlighting the skills developers wil...
AGI coding predictions for 2025
Tuesday, January 7, 2025 by Richard Harris
In 2024, there was much excitement about AI code assistance, and also a realization that it poses major risks. Suddenly non-experts could act like expert developers and ask AI to generate a Python script, for example. Without understanding the nuances they simply didn’t know what they didn't know. Often these users failed to ask the right questions, and the AI...
AI automation to simplify developers roles in 2025
Friday, January 3, 2025 by Richard Harris
As we look ahead to 2025, Sacha Labourey, co-founder of CloudBees, predicts that AI automation will revolutionize developer roles. Shifting from task automation to full workflow management, AI will simplify developers' workloads, streamline security and compliance tasks, and reduce inefficiencies caused by fragmented tools. Labourey emphasizes the importance of unif...
NetLib Security predictions 2025
Thursday, January 2, 2025 by Richard Harris
The leading prediction for 2025 will sound familiar: Generative AI directly affects your privacy rights. In many ways, this is a twist on the typical cybersecurity problem. Rather than a hacker or a bad actor breaking in to steal your data, we are being asked to hand our keys to the companies we often trust the most: Microsoft, Apple, Dropbox, and Google!
NetLib Secu...
Record breaking year for fintech 2024
Tuesday, December 31, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
A new analysis of finance, fintech and crypto apps on the Google Play Store by app growth solutions company SplitMetrics, has found that UK neobanks have surpassed UK legacy banks in terms of app downloads for the very first time ahead of the festive season.
As it stands, UK neobanks have an estimated 71.78m Android users, 200k ahead of UK legacy banks with 71....
The rise of cloud to on premises repatriation
Tuesday, December 31, 2024 by Richard Harris
As the landscape of data management and cloud technology continues to evolve, businesses are expected to shift focus in 2025, moving workloads from public cloud platforms back to on-premises or private cloud solutions. This trend, driven by rising cloud costs, security concerns, and data sovereignty requirements, is bolstered by advancements in affordable, high-performa...
AI solutions for US government
Monday, December 23, 2024 by Russ Scritchfield
Seekr and Carahsoft Technology Corp. have announced a partnership. Under the agreement, Carahsoft will serve as Seekr’s Master Government Aggregator, making the company’s reliable and transparent AI platform available to the Public Sector through Carahsoft’s reseller partners and NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) V, Information Tech...
App development predictions for 2025 from Kochava
Friday, December 20, 2024 by Richard Harris
As we approach 2025, app development is rapidly evolving. Technological advancements, changes in user expectations, and emerging global trends are redefining what it means to build, deploy, and use mobile and web applications.
2025 app development predictions from Amro Hassan at Kochava
With groundbreaking advancements in artificial intelligence, connectivity, and...
UK app developers file class action lawsuit against Apple
Thursday, December 19, 2024 by Richard Harris
A class action lawsuit has been launched in the UK against Apple, alleging that the tech giant has abused its dominant position in iOS app distribution to charge excessive commission fees. The case, Ennis v Apple, is being brought to the UK Competition Appeals Tribunal and seeks up to $970 million USD in damages on behalf of UK-based app developers. What you need to kn...
Why your ChatGPT app will need a no-code rescue
Wednesday, December 18, 2024 by Josh Haas
Josh Haas explains how generative AI falls short in app development, leaving founders to face challenges like iteration, security, and usability. He highlights how pairing AI with no-code platforms enables faster, scalable, and secure app creation. Why your ChatGPT app will need a no-code rescue Every day, we see YouTube videos of people using AI to turn plain English...
