The community of developers is being scared away by the high cost of putting their games on Facebook. According to a statement posted in Los Angeles Times, Facebook gets 30% shares from game developers and 20% is dedicated for high marketing costs. This clearly snatched 50% revenue for developers. “Facebook is still a viable platform ...

With consumers increasingly grasping the idea of having computers carry out tasks reserved for humans, artificial intelligence is on the rise. Although conversing with a realistic robot creeps many out, AI has transcended from just merely mimicking the image and the way a person speaks to profoundly looking at human responses, logical reasoning and creativity. ...

The governments are playing the hacking game, too. This got me thinking: what are the possible implications of law backing up the bad guys? Are we granting them to access sensitive data of the government to perform activities targeting the other (nations) bad guys? Where do we draw the line of the good and bad ...

Embattled file storage magnate Kim Dotcom launching a disruptive music service this year. According to TheNextWeb, Megabox will make good use of social media sites like Twitter to strengthen closer relationships between fans and artists. Dotcom teases the public with his latest tweets: Kim Dotcom ‏@KimDotcom I know what you are all waiting for. It’s coming. ...

The idea of DevOps is quite a new thing for organizations. The promising feature to decrease high-stress and high-risk involving multiples teams for application release is what companies are closely looking into. The system gives developers more environment control and putting more application-centric touch. In a nutshell, DevOps is a fusion of the following branches: ...

For most developers, smartphone apps have become their bread and butter. The boom of the mobile space has showered them with opportunities that gave birth to the likes of billion-dollar apps Instagram. Who would have thought about that a free app could actually bring fortune to some regular dudes. The mindset has since then grown ...

For non-techie individuals, programming languages are totally from another planet. Who cares about the complex patterns and codes of SQL, Java, C++, or Ruby–and the long list goes on? We should. Essentially, programming languages are designed for machines like your computers, mobile phones and tablets to communicate with programs or applications and vise versa. This ...

One click and an entire organization’s data may find itself at risk. Employees’ social media and online access is already an apparent security loophole within most companies nowadays. This is why preventive measures, full control and visibility on where they go on web and eliminate risky browsing behavior are becoming essential for IT departments. These ...

If still alive, Alan Turing turns a century old on June 23rd— the computer scientist that breathed life to algorithm and computation or computing. Some five decades ago, he perpetrated the infamous ‘Turing Test” which until now is the standard that defines artificial intelligence. But while no one has yet to be successful in passing ...

We have already entered the cloud era with several organizations joining the troop of public cloud adoption. But just like in any other transitions, there is the “fear” of something new or something unknown. To cloud and virtualization, concerns loom around security and/or vulnerability. It professionals are convinced that security threats largely emanate from within ...