Java development testing tool Diffblue Cover Developer Edition
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 by Richard Harris
Diffblue released a new edition of its flagship product, Diffblue Cover. Diffblue Cover: Developer Edition meets the unique needs of individual Java developers and small teams, offering an accessible solution for AI-driven, continuous unit testing to drive efficiency, consistency, and scalability.
Diffblue Cover is widely adopted by medium-to-large enterprises &ndash...
Build your own dev tools
Monday, November 18, 2024 by Richard Harris
In a groundbreaking move set to revolutionize the design and development landscape, Penpot has launched a new Plugin System that empowers users to create custom tools tailored to their specific needs. This innovative feature not only enhances creative workflows but also invites designers and developers to participate in a dynamic Plugin Contest, offering them a platform...
Github Spark introduces a tool for creating web apps using plain English
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
GitHub has announced a groundbreaking tool, GitHub Spark, designed to empower developers by enabling the creation of web applications through plain English instructions. This innovation marks a significant stride in the evolution of coding, as it allows users to describe the desired functionality of an app in natural language, and the tool translates these descriptions ...
visionOS 2 Apple Vision Pro now available
Monday, October 21, 2024 by Richard Harris
Apple has released visionOS 2, a significant update designed to enhance the Apple Vision Pro experience. This update introduces the ability to transform favorite photos into spatial photos, new intuitive hand gestures, and a range of new features in popular apps.
visionOS 2 Apple Vision Pro now available worldwide
visionOS 2 is available today, delivering new spat...
Load testing engine from SmartBear added to its TestComplete tool
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 by Russ Scritchfield
SmartBear has integrated the load testing engine of LoadNinja into its award-winning automated testing tool, TestComplete. Testers can now re-use their functional tests and run them as a load test in a single workflow, optimizing efficiency and productivity, enhancing test coverage, and reducing costs – solving the pain of needing point solutions to run a complete...
Impacts of AI revealed in TestRail report
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 by Richard Harris
TestRail announced its latest report, “Exploring the Impact of AI in QA.” Based on the QA industry’s first AI-focused research survey, this comprehensive report draws on insights from over 1,000 QA professionals and aims to cut through the hype surrounding artificial intelligence, offering a clear and accurate picture of how QA teams are adopting, plan...
PDF Editor Foxit now supported on PCs powered by Snapdragon
Saturday, October 12, 2024 by Richard Harris
Foxit announced that its Foxit PDF Editor and Editor Pro with AI Assistant are now natively supported on PCs powered by Snapdragon processors. This integration will provide commercial and consumer PC customers with greatly enhanced performance and capabilities - such as those customers working with PDF files on Dell Technologies' latest devices powere...
Automation product Skyvia released
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
Skyvia has announced the successful completion of the beta phase and the official release of the Automation product. This tool is designed to automate workflows and processes, helping organizations save time and resources while driving increased business efficiency. The new functionality enables users to build event-driven automation workflows, seamlessly integrating da...
Copilot in Excel with Python announced by Microsoft
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 by Russ Scritchfield
The next wave of Microsoft 365 Copilot is being launched, uniting web, work, and Pages as a new design system for knowledge work.
First, Copilot Pages is introduced as a dynamic, persistent canvas designed for multiplayer AI collaboration, marking the first new digital artifact for the AI age.
Second, enhancements to Copilot in the Microsoft 365 apps are being rap...
Mobile App Development Market report findings
Friday, September 20, 2024 by Russ Scritchfield
Allied Market Research recently published a report, titled, "Mobile App Development Market by Platform (IOS, Android and Windows), by Store Type (Google Store, Apple Store and Others), and Application (BFSI, Gaming, Retail, Airline, Media & Entertainment, Education, Transport, Hotels & Restaurants and Others): Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Foreca...
Game technology report from Perforce reveals role of game engines
Thursday, September 5, 2024 by Austin Harris
Perforce Software, the DevOps company for global teams requiring speed, quality, security and governance at scale along the development lifecycle, announces the release of the 2024 State of Game Technology Report. This year's study, conducted in collaboration with JetBrains - a global software company specializing in the creation of intelligent, productivity-enhanci...
AI regulations in software development
Tuesday, August 27, 2024 by Richard Harris
AI is rapidly changing the software development field, making clear regulations essential to prevent risks like data breaches and ensure ethical practices. These regulations are also key to reshaping developer roles while preserving the need for human expertise.
AI regulations in software development
The implementation of formal AI policies within companies is cri...
Top 10 apps used the most while driving
Monday, August 19, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
It’s easy to hop in the car, buckle up, start the engine, and hit the road. It’s just as easy to put your phone down and focus on driving.
But, according to a CMT survey of over 1,200 people, 73% of Americans don’t. In 2023, Americans spent 2 minutes and 6 seconds using their phones while driving.
The Scherer family knows the painful consequences...
Microsoft surpasses revenue expectations for fourth quarter
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
Microsoft has reported outstanding financial results for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year 2024, surpassing market expectations with revenues of $64.73 billion, a 15% increase compared to the previous year. Net income reached $22 billion, representing $2.95 per share, slightly higher than earlier estimates. Despite this solid overall performance, the intelligent clo...
Secure mobile VNCphone puts an end to mobile spying
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 by Austin Harris
With the VNCphone, VNC presents a unique combination of mobile phones, hardened operating system and pre-installed applications for secure mobile communication and collaboration.
Secure mobile VNCphone puts an end to mobile spying
With VNCphone, VNC, a developer of open source-based enterprise applications, now enables professional mobile working without spyi...
Generative AI in Application Security report from Checkmarx
Monday, August 12, 2024 by Richard Harris
Checkmarx, the in-cloud-native application security provider, has published its Seven Steps to Safely Use Generative AI in Application Security report, which analyzes key concerns, usage patterns, and buying behaviors relating to the use of AI in enterprise application development. The global study exposed the tension between the need to empower both...
GSMA Open Gateway and CAMARA initiatives
Friday, August 9, 2024 by Richard Harris
Nokia is pursuing a strategic commitment to leverage the broader B2B digitalization ecosystem and drive new business models that unlock the potential that network APIs can deliver from the perspective of innovation, sustainability, collaboration, and productivity.
By making network programmability monetizable, the company’s flagship API solution, the Netwo...
AWS App Studio lands from Amazon
Friday, August 2, 2024 by Richard Harris
At AWS Summit New York, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), announced the release of AWS App Studio, a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered service that uses natural language to create enterprise-grade applications. A user simply describes the application they want, what they want it to do, and the data sources they want to integrate with, and in just minut...
.NET and AI meet at virtual .NET Conf Focus on AI
Wednesday, July 31, 2024 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has announced an upcoming virtual event, .NET Conf: Focus on AI, set for August 20th. This event will explore the integration of AI into .NET applications, providing developers with valuable insights into leveraging AI libraries and features for smarter application development, enhanced productivity, and improved user experiences.
The event, part of the &qu...
NPUs disrupting Nvidia AI dominance
Tuesday, July 23, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
The semiconductor market is projected to reach around $400 billion by 2030*, with AI semiconductors expected to constitute over 30% of this market, up from 20% today. AI has recently dominated headlines with the launch of ChatGPT, Claude, and a host of other GenAI platforms. This has prompted countless companies to examine how they can implement AI into their products, ...
Open source extensions from Timescale
Thursday, June 27, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
Timescale, the PostgreSQL cloud database company, has unveiled two open-source extensions, pgvectorscale and pgai, which significantly enhance PostgreSQL’s scalability and ease of use for AI applications. Licensed under the open-source PostgreSQL license, these extensions empower developers to build retrieval augmented generation, search, and AI agent applications...
Network as Code platform launched by Nokia
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 by Richard Harris
Nokia announced that it is expanding its collaboration with Google Cloud to give developers around the world the network software tools they need to create innovative new 5G enterprise and consumer applications faster for their customers.
Now, Nokia’s Network as Code platform with a developer portal will run on Google Cloud, enriching the developer experience v...
Overcoming burnout in software QA with surfing
Friday, June 14, 2024 by Ramcham Floyd T. Gaid
Life has been changing and challenging as the future arises. Fear and anxiety is bringing risks to business owners, employees and to our families because of uncertainties of the future. With the technologies evolving rapidly with AI and the Cloud the Metaverse world becomes relevant in the near future. Life is supposed to be lived in happiness with a healthy lifestyle, ...
Telerik and Kendo UI 2024 Q2 release adds GenAI
Friday, June 7, 2024 by Richard Harris
Progress announced the latest release of Telerik and Kendo UI, the .NET and JavaScript UI libraries, and tools for application development. The release delivers artificial intelligence (AI) prompts to application interfaces, design-to-code productivity, accessibility features and a series of new UI components, including the first-to-market Blazor Spreadsheet c...
Self sign up unveiled by amazee io
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
Amazee.io, a Mirantis company, announced the launch of its new self-sign-up capability that simplifies the user experience and enables organizations to autonomously access, set up, and explore the comprehensive developer-first open source application delivery and hosting platform in minutes.
amazee.io, acquired by Mirantis in 2022, is a ZeroOps application delivery h...
API Manager from WSO2 advances developer productivity
Monday, May 6, 2024 by Richard Harris
Software developers face growing demands to deliver innovative new digital experiences faster, but those experiences are often based on a complex web of data, processes, services and APIs that need to be woven together. WSO2 is helping developers to streamline their efforts and increase productivity with the introduction of new capabilities for WSO2 API Manager, WSO2 AP...
Gemini in Android Studio announced by Google
Tuesday, April 9, 2024 by Richard Harris
Google has released Gemini in Android Studio, introducing an AI-powered enhancement to the Android app development workflow. It utilizes the advanced Gemini 1.0 Pro model, tailored for programming-related tasks, to provide substantial support in several key areas:
Code completion boost: By analyzing your code, Gemini offers precise completions and multi-line sugge...
AI low code roadmap released by WaveMaker
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 by Richard Harris
WaveMaker, the breakthrough development system for accelerating enterprise-grade software development, has updated its platform in response to customer demand for more sophisticated API and code management tools. The new version of WaveMaker now works on the latest Angular technology platform.
WaveMaker releases a new modern development system for enterprise-grade so...
GPT app store revenue and API insights
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
GPT stands for "Generative Pre-trained Transformer." It refers to a class of artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI that use transformer architecture for natural language processing tasks. These models are pre-trained on vast amounts of text data and can generate human-like text based on the input they receive.
It has been two months since...
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...
Ultrasound devices market report key findings
Friday, February 16, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
According to Transparency Market Research Inc., the global ultrasound devices industry is expected to exceed US$ 12.5 billion by 2031. A CAGR of 6% is projected for the global ultrasound devices market from 2021 to 2031. The market's future is projected to be heavily influenced by ongoing innovation in ultrasound technology. This could include increasing image resol...
.NET 9 set to release at .NET Conf 2024
Friday, February 16, 2024 by Richard Harris
The .NET community is embarking on another exciting annual release cycle with the much-anticipated arrival of .NET 9. Developers are urged to seamlessly transition their applications to the current .NET 8 version while setting their sights on the groundbreaking features that .NET 9 promises to unveil at the .NET Conf 2024, scheduled for the end of this year.
The prim...
JBoss EAP 8 released from Red Hat
Thursday, February 8, 2024 by Richard Harris
Red Hat, Inc., the provider of open source solutions, announced the general availability of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) 8. JBoss EAP 8 delivers security enhancements, improved cloud workflow tools, and compatibility with Jakarta EE 10, contributing to streamlined application modernization for customers and continued support for enterprise J...
Check for prostate cancer searches explode amid King Charles report
Thursday, February 8, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
Buckingham Palace announced on Monday, 5th of February, that 75-year-old King Charles has been diagnosed with cancer and is already receiving treatment. The news came after the announcement on Wednesday, 18th of January, that King Charles required treatment for an enlarged prostate. Buckingham Palace has revealed no further details about what type of cancer King Charles...
AI code personalization tool from Anima
Monday, February 5, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
Anima announced AI Code Personalization which leverages generative AI in their code-generation engine. This feature empowers developers to automatically customize the code they produce so it resembles their coding style, significantly saving editing time. Anima’s code personalization is now available in the Anima Figma Plugin and in Figma’s Dev Mode.
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