Misty Robotics has announced the general availability of Misty II
Friday, November 8, 2019 by Richard Harris
Misty Robotics announced the general availability of Misty II, the first professional-grade platform robot. Misty Robotics is opening the world of robots to all software developers as well as educators and researchers comfortable with code by removing existing barriers in the market. The company believes that platform robots are the missing link to accelerating the use ...
.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 ...
Self serve AI platform has launched
Monday, May 20, 2019 by Richard Harris
Xnor.ai has launched AI2GO, a self-serve platform that enables developers, device creators and companies to build smart, edge-based solutions without training or background in AI. AI2GO is available now and contains more than a hundred fully-trained models optimized to run on resource-constrained devices such as mobile devices, wearables, smart cameras, remote sens...
JavaScript API edition of Dynamsoft's barcode SDK released
Tuesday, December 18, 2018 by Austin Harris
Dynamsoft has updated its Barcode Reader Software Development Kit as a pure JavaScript API Edition, based on WebAssembly, to enable cross-browser and cross-platform online barcode scanning.
These new features will empower developers with new conveniences for users. Users can scan barcodes in real-time from a browser using their smartphone without requiring an a...
IBM sponsors Scrum conference in Dublin
Thursday, November 2, 2017 by Richard Harris
Scrum Alliance announced that its European Global Scrum Gathering has kicked off in Dublin with IBM as its top sponsor.“Reshaping the company in fundamental ways to fuel a culture of collaboration, IBM has embarked on an Agile journey that focuses on their customers’ needs,” said Scrum Alliance interim CEO Lisa Hershman. “We are thrilled to have IBM as our title sponsor...
IoT app development contest announced by Sigma Design and Make:
Friday, September 29, 2017 by Richard Harris
Sigma Designs and Make: have announced a smart home Z-Wave app design contest for Makers and Developers. Sigma has launched the Z-Wave Smart Home Maker Challenge in cooperation with Make: and in unison with the flag-ship World Maker Faire that takes place in New York City September 23-24th. The smart home design competition will be hosted on the all-new Maker Share comm...
Xojo 2017 cross platform tool updates are now available
Tuesday, August 15, 2017 by Austin Harris
Xojo, Inc., a company helping developers create native cross-platform applications, has announced the availability of Xojo 2017 Release 2. Xojo is a rapid application development tool for making apps for the desktop (macOS, Windows and Linux), web, iOS, and Raspberry Pi. In addition to over 250 improvements, this release focuses on enhancements to 64-bit support, Linux ...
IIoT gets Lightning ML from FogHorn Systems
Monday, July 17, 2017 by Richard Harris
FogHorn Systems has announced the availability of Lightning ML, the newest version of its edge intelligence software platform for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Lightning ML is an IIoT software platform with integrated machine learning capabilities and universal compatibility across all major IIoT edge systems.Accenture predicts that IIoT can add $14.2 trilli...
Why you should add voice and intelligence to your apps
Friday, May 19, 2017 by Richard Harris
SoundHound Inc. is a voice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence provider that has turned sound (voice, music, and more) into understanding and actionable meaning, enabling humans to interact with the things around them in the same way we interact with each other: by speaking naturally to mobile phones, cars, TVs, music speakers, and every other part of the emergin...
myDevices launches its IoT Ready Program at CES
Saturday, January 7, 2017 by Richard Harris
How to build IoT solutions using Cayenne, and use cases with the myDevices IoT Creation Suite.
myDevices, has announced the official launch of its IoT Ready Program for hardware manufacturers at CES 2017. The program provides manufacturers with the ability to have their devices seamlessly communicate with any other manufacturer’s device. Their Cay...
Mobile 3D face scanning is coming from Bellus3D
Thursday, January 5, 2017 by Austin Harris
Inuitive has announced that Bellus3D Inc. has adopted the NU3000 into its next-generation face scanning camera which will be launched during CES 2017 in Las Vegas. Bellus3D is focusing on high quality and affordable 3D face scanning for mobile devices. Their face camera will work on smartphones and tablets to create high quality 3D face models that can be used for ...
Companies in banking and insurance can use data science to survive
Wednesday, January 4, 2017 by Austin Harris
Editors note: Guest submission by Florian DouetteauOver the course of many centuries, the banking and insurance industries have developed processes, products and infrastructures that have shaped the economic structure of humankind. But now, they are being challenged by industry outsiders who appeared on the world stage a mere couple of decades ago, and some who eme...
SoftIntegration's Ch 7.5 supports Raspberry Pi, Pi Zero, and ARM
Wednesday, January 4, 2017 by Richard Harris
SoftIntegration, Inc. has released the of Ch 7.5 and Embedded Ch 7.5 for ARM and Raspberry Pi. Ch is a complete cross-platform C/C++ interpreter as well as an embeddable scripting engine and can be embedded in other applications for scripting.This latest release supports Raspberry Pi, Pi Zero, and ARM based single-board computers running Linux. The Raspberry Pi is a low...
Meet Dav Glass, local hero hacker and Yahoo Distinguished Engineer
Thursday, November 10, 2016 by Richard Harris
Dav Glass is a Distinguished Architect for Yahoo, and has been at the company for 10 years. He works with various teams across Yahoo with their NodeJS applications and deployments, as well as other Open Source initiatives to help their developers give away and contribute to Open Source Software. Outside of Yahoo, he also coaches 3 robotics teams at a local High Sch...
New Rapid IoT Development Kit from Telit Offers Builtin Cellular Connectivity
Monday, September 5, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Telit has released a new Rapid IoT Development Kit with built-in cellular connectivity and integration with the Cloud-based Telit IoT Portal. The kit can be used to develop standalone IoT prototypes or as a cellular, cloud-ready plug-in for open Maker platforms. The new portal lets IoT developers connect and manage the kit, and offers the ability to secur...
myDevices Cayenne Drag and Drop IoT Project Builder Now Offers Integration with Arduino
Wednesday, August 24, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
IoT firm has myDevices has announced its Cayenne drag-and-drop IoT project builder now offers an integration with Arduino’s open-source software and hardware ecosystem. The Cayenne development platform provides access to Arduino’s features when choosing an IoT board including WiFi, BLE, IR, NFC, Ethernet, and more.Cayenne provides tools to visualize sensor data&nbs...
The Growing Benefits of Cross Platform App Development With VPlay
Saturday, August 20, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Christian Feldbacher, co-founder and CEO of V-Play, to discuss the growing benefits of cross-platform development and how V-Play aims to make it easier than ever for developers to bring their apps to market.ADM: Who is V-Play? What does the company do?Feldbacher: V-Play provides a cross-platform development tool for mobile app and game developer...
Microsoft Releases Windows 10 IoT Core Sample App for 3D Printing
Thursday, May 26, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has added a new Windows 10 IoT Core sample app, “Network 3D Printer”, that adds support for a range of 3D printers and provides to access them over a network. Multiple Windows computers on a network can share the same 3D printer.Raspberry Pi users can access the solution starting to network enable their 3D printers. Microsoft is inviting device manufactu...
Upgrade Job Skills with Java Enterprise App DevOps Training
Friday, May 6, 2016 by Richard Harris
NIIT, as part of its recently introduced DigiNxt Series, is launching “Java Enterprise Apps with DevOps”, the company’s first program in its new project-based learning series.The Java Enterprise Apps with DevOps program lasts 14 weeks and will encompass various aspects of enterprise app development, covering the following objectives:- Understand and implement object-ori...
Windows 10 IoT Core Supports New Raspberry Pi 3 Board
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 by Richard Harris
On the heals of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s announcement of the availability of their the new Raspberry Pi 3, Microsoft has announced Windows 10 support for the new board through a new Windows 10 IoT Core Insider Preview update now available for download. The new Raspberry Pi 3 board is also available now in the Microsoft Store online.The Windows 10 IoT Core is optimi...
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Offers Builtin Wireless LAN and Bluetooth
Monday, February 29, 2016 by Richard Harris
The next generation of the Raspberry Pi board had arrived with the introduction of the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B by element14. The new board is faster and more powerful than before and comes with built-in Wireless and Bluetooth connectivity. The new Raspberry Pi 3 is available to buy today for $35US and is built on a new QUAD Core Broadcom BCM2837 64bit ARMv8 pr...
Microsoft Releases No Code Windows 10 App Studio Out of Preview
Wednesday, November 4, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has released the Windows App Studio with Windows 10 Store Support Release out of preview providing the access to a free, online app creation tool for those with no coding experience to create and publish a universal Windows app with no code required. App Studio Windows 10 was released in preview in July. With the general release, users can now direc...
New Functionality for Windows 10 IoT Core Released Through Windows Insider Program
Wednesday, November 4, 2015 by Richard Harris
The Windows 10 IoT Core was first publically released in early August and Microsoft continues to add functionality to the platform. Among the most recent enhancements include new Windows 10 IoT Core support for the Qualcomm DragonBoard 410c offering additional capabilities of the DragonBoard 410c’s including onboard WiFi and Bluetooth and DirectX graphicsEarlier this ye...
IoT Provider myDevices Launches New Platform
Monday, October 12, 2015 by Richard Harris
IoT Provider myDevices develops middleware platforms and application solutions for the Internet of Things and as part of its product offering has launched a new IoT Platform as a Service. The platform combines a consumer-facing front end with data collection, analysis, and engagement tools at the back end. The customizable IoT platform is combined with professiona...
Windows 10 IoT Core Latest Release Includes New Starter Kit
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 by Richard Harris
In August Microsoft made available the Windows Insider release of Windows 10 IoT Core for the Raspberry Pi 2 and the MinnowBoard Max, offering a version of Windows 10 targeted towards small, embedded devices that may or may not have screens. Microsoft has now announced a new upcoming Windows Insider release, where the company is placing an emphasis on responding to...
You Can Now Noodle with Windows 10 IoT Core for Embedded Devices
Friday, August 21, 2015 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has released Windows 10 IoT Core, a new edition for Windows targeted towards small, embedded devices that may or may not have screens. The first public preview of Windows 10 IoT Core was released at the /build/ conference, and since then expanded functionally has been added including support for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity.Microsoft designed the IoT core ...
Top Five Ways to Get Your Apps Ready for Windows 10
Friday, July 10, 2015 by Brian Alexakis
With the full release of Windows 10 right around the corner, now’s the time to ensure your app is ready for Microsoft’s biggest release ever. And here’s how you can do it.Expect Big Consumer Adoption Rates for Windows 10Microsoft expects that Windows 10 will see huge adoption rates by its millions of worldwide customers, from home users to small business and large enter...
NXP Releases NFC Solution for Linux and Android Drivers of IoT devices
Monday, June 29, 2015 by Richard Harris
NXP Semiconductors has released a new plug and play Near Field Communication (NFC) solution for Linux and Android drivers of IoT devices. The new, highly integrated NXP PN7120 helps create NFC solutions and enables exploration of new applications and use cases for IoT and the Smart Home including a variety of appliances and consumer electronics such as home network gate...
Predixion Software Analytics Platform Provides Real Time IoT Analytics and Automated Actions
Monday, May 18, 2015 by Richard Harris
Predixion Software’s latest version of its Predixion Insight IoT analytics platform offers new functionality to run analytic models directly on-cloud, on-gateway and on-device, allowing enterprises to perform real-time analytics and automated actions. Predixion Insight’s Machine Learning Semantic Model (MLSM) technology provides “predict anywhere” flexibility, offe...
Highlights from Day Two of Microsoft Build
Thursday, April 30, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft continued to announced services for the developer community on day two of of its Build conference. On a blog post Microsoft Chief Evangelist’s Steve Guggenheimer had this to say about the second day of the event, “ Kicking off Day 2 of Build today, I had the pleasure of expanding on the news and vision that Satya, Scott and Terry shared yesterday. We buil...
How to Avoid the Naughty App Developer List in 2015
Friday, December 19, 2014 by Dan Silivestru
The 12 Good Deeds to Get You On The Developer ‘Nice’ List This Year...As the end of 2014 quickly approaches, we know that many developers are working on their New Year’s resolutions. Some developers may be on the ‘Naughty’ list this year for neglecting to take important measures while writing their code and building their software projects.With the holidays just around ...
relayr Takes Home Big Bucks as First Prize Winner of the Cisco Internet of Things (IoT) Innovation Grand Challenge
Tuesday, October 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
We usually don’t cover funding announcements, there are plenty of other sites you can find that info. I find all that news about companies receiving funding kind of boring (ok I get a little jealous too!) However, I received a notice I thought was worth spreading the word about. We just found out that IoT startup relayr took home $150,000 as the first prize winner ...
New Microsoft Sharks Cove Development Board Not Another Slice of Pi
Thursday, July 31, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has announced they are taking preorders for the Sharks Cove development board, a “Windows compatible hardware development board” designed to facilitate development of software and drivers for mobile devices that run Windows, such as phones, tablets and similar System on a Chip (SoC) platforms.Priced at $299, Microsoft predicts board that will find a home with ...
Oracle Announces Most Significant Java Update in the History of the Platform
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 by Richard Harris
Oracle has released Java 8, which they say is “the most significant Java technology release.” Oracle is announcing Java Platform, Standard Edition 8 (Java SE 8), Java Platform, Micro Edition 8 (Java ME 8) and the related releases of Oracle's Java Embedded products. JDK 8 is a production-ready implementation of the Java SE 8 Platform Specification, wh...
Google Serves a Little Pi to Aspiring App Developers
Tuesday, September 17, 2013 by Richard Harris
Google has launched Coder, a free, open source project that turns a Raspberry Pi into a little, bitty server for the web with the ability to build basic apps in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, all from a Chrome web browser.
The software was designed in part as an educational tool to introduce app development to students, educators or just those that want to dip their...