Ethereum virtual machine lands from Ontology
Monday, March 7, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
Ontology announced the release of its Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Seamlessly connecting the Ontology and EVM-based ecosystems will increase cross-chain interoperability, allowing EVM-based blockchain developers to migrate easily across ecosystems and seamlessly construct applications on Ontology.
To celebrate the release, Ontology has also announced a $10 million...
GraphQL platform Hasura launches new innovations
Monday, January 3, 2022 by Richard Harris
Hasura has announced a new Data Hub, bi-directional REST API Connectors, and support for Google Cloud, further reducing the time needed to ship software and providing easy onramps to GraphQL for organizations of all types. These innovations build atop existing industry-first capabilities including full-stack application previews and cross-database joins to enable compan...
Data Catalog is now available in public beta
Tuesday, July 2, 2019 by Richard Harris
At Google Cloud Next '19 San Francisco, Google introduced Data Catalog, a fully managed, data discovery and metadata management service that allows you to quickly discover, manage, and understand your data in Google Cloud. We're announcing that Data Catalog is now available in public beta.
Simple and powerful data discovery
Data analysts can now use Data C...
Mesosphere DC OS 1.12 is now available
Thursday, November 1, 2018 by Austin Harris
Mesosphere announced the general availability of Mesosphere Kubernetes Engine (MKE), Mesosphere DC/OS 1.12 and the public beta of Mesosphere Jupyter Service (MJS). Mesosphere Kubernetes Engine is the only software platform that delivers pure Kubernetes-as-a-Service on multi-cloud and edge with high-density resource pooling, yet without the need for virtualization. DC/OS...
GitHub Actions and other announcements from GitHub Universe
Wednesday, October 17, 2018 by Richard Harris
GitHub, the soon to be acquired by Microsoft company, has always been known for its source code repository capabilities for developers. But why just store the code on a platform when you can run it too?
At its annual developer conference, GitHub Universe, they announced Actions, which is essentially a way to help automate your development workflows. Actions use...
Vita finalizes secure NDA for public beta testers
Tuesday, April 3, 2018 by Austin Harris
Vita Mobile Systems, Inc. has announced the Company is finalizing its plans to begin public beta testing across the US. The Company has worked with its legal team to finalize a secure non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to be used with the select public beta testers. The VITA app has already been undergoing internal beta testing and utilizing large social media influencers a...
Point and click app development with Metavine GO
Wednesday, November 8, 2017 by Richard Harris
A recent report by Gartner finds that “more than 80% of top global enterprises have significant business unit development underway, much of it unseen and unsanctioned by IT, but less than 20% have a collaborative citizen development strategy in place.” (Citizen Development is Fundamental to Digital Transformation, Oct 13, 2017, Driver, Wong, Baker). To help solve t...
Mobile mesh networking apps via new SDK from RightMesh
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 by Richard Harris
A big hurdle for software developers is how to reach the estimated 4 billion people, who currently lack Internet access. Without an Internet connection, huge swaths of potential users are unable to discover, download, and use their applications. The majority of these unconnected people live in developing countries, but approximately 96% of the global population live in ...
iOS 11 developer tips to maximize your opportunities
Friday, August 4, 2017 by Mark Price
One decade after the launch of the first iPhone, Apple is set to introduce the latest iOS. Deemed by the tech behemoth as the world's most advanced mobile operating system, iOS 11, still in public beta test, is packed with capabilities designed to help developers create cohesive and immersive user experiences. Following are new features and long-anticipated upgrades inc...
iOS 11 security implications
Thursday, July 13, 2017 by Richard Harris
Apple’s iOS 11 won’t be released until this fall, but its in public beta now - available for both developers and enterprising consumers alike to test it out. Beta versions inherently come with bugs, but some features of the operating system will continue to pose problems after the market-ready version is released. Richard Stiennon, Chief Strategy Officer of Blancco Tech...
Hyperwallet Releases New REST Payout API Out of Public Beta
Monday, July 18, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Hyperwallet has moved its REST payout API out of public beta to general availability. The payout platform offers new developer features, including software development kits (SDKs), additional API calls, and a new self-serve developer portal. Hyperwallet also is implementing a webhook framework and prepaid card API calls for release this fall.Hyperwallet’s SDKs will be r...
Stackspace Releases SaaS Big Data Analytics Platform
Monday, April 4, 2016 by Richard Harris
Stackspace has released a public beta of its Software-as-a-Service offering which provides a marketplace of big data tools that users can access to create configurable data pipelines, ingest selected data, and perform analysis.Stackspace users create their own customized distribution, using any combination of systems, and start using them in minutes. To ensure security,...
HPE Releases New AppPulse Trace Analytics Platform for App Performance Monitoring
Saturday, February 20, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has released HPE AppPulse Trace, a new module in HPE's Application Performance Monitoring (APM) software suite that allows developers to use application analytics to pinpoint and fix issues at their source, down to the exact line of code and server.The HPE AppPulse Suite, available in early access public beta, leverages the massive volum...
Splice Machine Updates Beta of Its Hybrid RDBMS Powered by Hadoop and Spark
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Splice Machine has released version 2.0 of its hybrid in-memory RDBMS powered by Hadoop and Spark. Splice Machine 2.0, in public beta, integrates Apache Spark, a fast, open source engine for large-scale data processing, into its existing Hadoop-based architecture. Splice Machine 2.0 offers a database solution that incorporates the scalability of Hadoop, ANSI ...
First Wave of Unity Games Published for Apple TV
Monday, November 2, 2015 by Richard Harris
The first wave of games built for Apple TV using the Unity for Apple TV platform have been released. Unity has been working under a closed alpha to work the kinks out of the Unity for Apple TV platform, treating it as a separate platform, rather than an extension of the iOS platform due to the differences on how content is presented, consumed and interacted.The publishe...
BMC Releases New Big Data Analytics Platform
Thursday, September 17, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
BMC has introduced a number of new offerings including TrueSight Intelligence, a cloud-based big data analytics platform that collects and analyzes IT, business, and operational data, from any source.The TrueSight Intelligence solution is a component of BMC’s new Digital Enterprise Management strategy, which is designed to make digital business fast and seamless and opt...
Sauce Labs Adds Real iOS and Android Devices to Mobile App Testing Platform
Monday, September 14, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Sauce Labs is moving beyond automated iOS & Android emulators to real devices with the launch of its public beta of its Real Device Cloud. The new platform will provide the ability to test with virtual and real devices. The new offering will first provide access to real Apple iPhone 6 and Samsung Galaxy 4S and 5S phones with other models to be offered in the future....
Thingsee One IoT Developer Kit Now Available
Monday, August 17, 2015 by Richard Harris
Thingsee has announced the commercial availability of its Thingsee One device, a smart developer device for Internet of Things (IoT) applications and solution development. The device is designed for the easier and faster deployment of new IoT applications and services.Thingsee One is delivered ready for immediate use and is both weatherproof and impact resistant. Develo...
Microsoft Provides First Look at Windows Bridge for iOS
Monday, August 10, 2015 by Richard Harris
In its continuing effort to encourage app developers to embrace cross platform development, Microsoft continues to roll out its bridging technologies to allow developers to bring existing code and skills for iOS, Android, web and desktop to the Windows Store.As part of that effort, Microsoft has released an initial version of the Windows Bridge for iOS (previously known...
Creating Mac Desktop Apps Using Corona SDK Now In Public Beta
Thursday, July 23, 2015 by Richard Harris
Corona is bringing Mac App and Win32 App support to the Corona platform and has announced it is moving from a private to a public beta to allow developers the opportunity to experiment using the platform to build desktop apps.To build desktop apps with the beta, developers can build apps directly from Corona Simulator, just like as they would for iOS or Android with no ...
Adobe’s New Adobe Creative Cloud Release Offers Major Updates
Thursday, June 18, 2015 by Richard Harris
Adobe has released the latest version of its flagship Adobe Creative Cloud tools and services. The 2015 release of Creative Cloud includes major updates to Adobe’s desktop tools, including Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, Premiere Pro CC and InDesign CC as well as new connected mobile apps for iOS and Android. The company also released Adobe Stock, a stock content ser...
Apple Announcements at WWDC Include Introduction of iOS 9
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 by Richard Harris
During its keynote kicking off WWDC 2015, one of the highlight Apple announcements was iOS 9, which will be available this fall. According to Apple, in this upcoming release, iOS devices become more intelligent and proactive with search and improved Siri features. New multitasking features designed specifically for iPad provide users that ability to work with two apps s...
New Relic to Add Docker Monitoring to Its Software Analytics Platform
Friday, May 8, 2015 by Richard Harris
New Relic has announced a new set of features to its software analytics platform designed to enable greater productivity for developers and agility for IT operations to meet business objectives. These updates reflect an industry shift to more modular, elastic cloud application architectures, built using containers, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and microservices.The New ...
Stackify Releases Public Beta of APM Application Performance Monitoring Tool for ASP.NET Web Applications
Friday, May 1, 2015 by Richard Harris
Stackify’s beta release of its APM+ platform provides real-time application and server monitoring coupled with error & log management. It offers an application performance monitoring solution that combines code-level insights, error and log management, and server metrics into one consolidated platform to monitor for ASP.NET performance issues.Stackify APM+ adds meth...
Developers Can Now Improve an Apps Connectivity Through Public Beta of Kwicr Platform
Monday, January 5, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
I was chatting with the team at Kwicr this morning at the Appnation conference and they let me know their platform is now in public beta. We reported earlier this year about the launch of the private beta of the company’s mobile delivery network.In a nutshell, the Kwicr platform helps publishers provide faster download speeds, higher quality media playback and analytics...
Game Developers Can Participate in Granite for Unity 3D Plugin Public Beta
Friday, November 7, 2014 by Richard Harris
Graphine Software has released Granite for Unity into a public beta program and is offering a free 30 day trial version.The Granite for Unity plugin provides advanced texture streaming in Unity 3D. It provides the ability to offer the large amounts of texture data that high-end games and visualization applications need. It combines virtual texturing techniques with a fi...
Genuitec Announces General Availability of GapDebug Solution for Debugging PhoneGap Apps
Friday, November 7, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
GapDebug is coming out of public beta with its PhoneGap debugging tool as the company has announced the General Availability (GA) of GapDebug for use by hybrid mobile app developers.Operating on both the Windows and Mac platforms, GapDebug allows debugging of hybrid mobile apps, such as PhoneGap and Cordova, on modern iOS and Android devices. GapDebug is free to use for...
Electric Cloud Introduces Continuous Delivery SaaS Service for Mobile App Development
Thursday, October 9, 2014 by Richard Harris
Electric Cloud has introduced Ship.io which brings continuous delivery to native iOS and Android app development. This SaaS offering is now available as a free public beta service simplifying and automating build, test and deployment processes. Ship.io facilitates the mobile app lifecycle process by delivering the benefits of continuous integration and continuous d...
Genuitec Takes GapDebug Tool for PhoneGap and Apache Cordova into Public Beta
Thursday, July 17, 2014 by Richard Harris
After a couple of weeks of private beta, Genuitec is taking its GapDebug tool for PhoneGap and Apache Cordova into public beta.GapDebug provides the ability to “plug and debug” mobile apps. It is a single source platform to perform cross-platform testing on iOS and Android mobile apps. GapDebug eliminates the need to bounce back and forth between iOS...
WiMi5 HTML5 Gaming App Development Platform Launches Public Beta
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 by Richard Harris
WiMi5 is a cloud based platform to create, publish and monetize HTML5 casual games. The company has been in private beta and is now in public beta.The company seeks to become the next iOS and Android marketplace by using HTML5. Users of the platform will be able to create casual games, launch them in WiMi5’s in-house app marketplace and monetize through a F2P share...
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 ...
Corona's New Graphics 2.0 is Now Public Beta
Saturday, October 12, 2013 by Richard Harris
Corona has been busy rewriting their Graphics library, and has recently made the Beta of their Graphics 2.0 available to Pro and Enterprise subscribers.
The new Graphics has been designed to allow everything to interoperate seamlessly, and to try and not breaking existing code. Lots of new features have been implemented from complex mesh geometry to feeding a live came...
Weekly Roundup: Marmalade and Tizen, BlackBerry Developers, New School Monetization, Hyro, 2014 GDC, VLC, Rust, Opera Mobile, and iOS7 Sickness
Saturday, September 28, 2013 by Richard Harris
Top Stories for the week of 9/28/2013iOS 7 You are Making Me Sick. Really?In a recent article I came across, there are reports coming in that iOS 7 with it's warping, parallax, and other on UI screen visual effects, are making some people nauseous enough to actually throw up! Symptoms like vertigo, nausea, headaches, dizziness and more are all being reported.Initia...
App Developers Observe iOS Users in the Wild With Lookback
Friday, September 27, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Something new for iOS app developers? Yes, there’s always some new/shiny/flashy tool or service to catch your eye, however how often is something not just new, but really unique?
The two brother team of Carl and Jonatan Littke of the Ripple agency, a design and web development firm in Stockholm, have done just that with Lookback, their new user experience collector.&...
Appurify Launches Public Beta of Mobile Test Automation Platform
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 by Richard Harris
Company announces product collaborations with Sencha and Adobe PhoneGap, releases free SDK for mobile developers to streamline test creation and debuggingSAN FRANCISCO—September 25, 2013—Appurify, the pioneer in mobile test automation on real devices, today announced the public beta of its platform for testing, run-time debugging and performance optimization of mobile a...
