Aricent???s High Efficiency Video Codecs (HEVC) helps silicon vendors quickly build 4K Ultra HD video solutions that consume considerably less power and bandwidth.Redwood City, CA and Barcelona MWC 2014, 24
There are two fundamental architectural paradigms battling for supremacy for the Internet of Things (IoT). First, as the appellation Internet would suggest, we have the Client/Server (C/S) paradigm. At the
Facebook has forked one of its own open source projects—the Thrift toolset for creating distributed applications. “We didn’t make this a breaking change,” explained Facebook infrastructure engineer Blake Matheny. “It
Verizon has announced that the CloudBees platform as a service (PaaS) will be available through the Verizon Cloud. CloudBees is a popular Java-centric cloud development platform. The Verizon Cloud, which
A new report from Fiberlink could help enterprise mobile development teams better understand which devices their users are likely to be using. The mobility management vendor says that Samsung devices
The worst drought in a century is currently afflicting California, but utilities and developers are fighting back with technological solutions that take advantage of big data and cloud computing. For
iNES and iQAC address the need to optimize network behavior by proactively operating and controlling the infrastructure. Milan, February 18, 2014 ??? Italtel today launched two new end-to-end Network Control
A report from Computer Economics finds that full utilization of cloud computing reduces IT expenses by more than 15 percent, whether measured as a percentage of revenue or on a
These days, most developers spend a lot of time searching for pre-written snippets of code that they can use, and Microsoft has just made that process easier by adding a
Overview I was fascinated by the idea of developing cross-platform mobile apps from within the comforts of Visual Studio. This led me to explore Mono and the Xamarinsuit for almost
Next month, Google plans to host an event for developers. Called Google Cloud Platform Livem, the event will take place March 25, and developers can take part by attending in
Are you recreating existing technology silos in the Cloud? If so, your entire enterprise investment in the Cloud is at risk. From the perspective of IT, organizational silos seem to
HP has announced a new software as a service offering that will make it easier for enterprises to set up their own private app stores. Called HP Access Catalog, the
Backend as a Service (BaaS) vendor Kinvey has added new capabilities which may make it more appealing to enterprise mobile development teams. Companies can now run Kinvey on a dedicated
Overview The Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) is a mature J2EE application development framework, well supported by Oracle JDeveloper. By using ADF, a developer can minimize the coding effort to
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) has hit a bit of a rough spot lately. Unlike its big brothers SaaS and IaaS, PaaS providers are looking for traction in this diverse, even fragmented market.
Platform as a service vendor Heroku has made a number of changes to its infrastructure recently, and it says those improvements have decreased median app deployment times. Speed improvements range
At its PartnerWorld Leadership Conference, IBM announced its new Power Development Platform. The cloud development platform gives partners free access to IBM Power Systems for building and testing applications. Big
According to a new report from Good Technology, 132 million people worldwide use their smartphones for work. The company predicts that total will climb to 174 million by the end
Tiobe has updated its list of the most popular programming languages, and this month, one of the biggest surprises is a surge in popularity for Visual Basic.Net. VB.NET ranked as
When it comes to NoSQL projects, a large number of enterprises seem to be abandoning traditional IT roles and embracing DevOps instead. In a new survey, Gartner asked NoSQL users
Overview Instrumenting your application code should be one of the key Non-Functional Requirements for consideration while building applications in Azure, specifically if they are multi-tenant SaaS-based applications. Depending on the
Lately, it seems like a new coding academy opens nearly every day. But these startups that promise to teach newbies everything they need to know to get a development job
If researchers at NPD are correct, your next mobile PC will likely be a tablet. The firm forecasts that manufacturers will ship 315 million tablets this year—enough to account for
I attended SIGS DATACOMM OOP 2014 last week in Munich, Germany. I passed on the German language sessions – my high school Deutsch not sufficiently wunderbar – but among the
Overview In modern application development, the framework plays an important role–without the support of a mature framework, rapid application development is quite impossible. Oracle has developed an innovative, mature and
Microsoft has released a community technology preview (CTP) for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2. The new IDE includes bug fixes and improvements for Team Foundation Server, code analysis and IntelliTrace.
A new report from EvansData spotlights the growing importance of APIs to developers worldwide. The Developer Population and Demographics Study finds that there are 18.2 million software developers in the
HTML5 isn’t developers’ first choice as a mobile platform, but more people are using it as a secondary platform to reach a broader audience—at least that’s what a new report
Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator will play major part in Europe-wide project providing a cloud-based realm of services and tools for software developers to enable rapid software prototypingLondon and Edinburgh, UK –