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Gearing up for WWDC: Apple mobile development bootcamps for iOS, Swift and Objective-C
The Apple, Inc. developer conference WWDC 2016 is fast approaching—and once all the new products and SDKs are announced developers will most likely be champing at the bit to use them. However, what do you do as a budding developer right on the cusp of understanding Apple’s technologies but you don’t feel like you’re quite ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 June 1: China influences rise in market value, BTC ‘not money’ case, Australia auctioning $11.5M in bitcoins, the DAO comes online
It looks like the Bitcoin market value got a sudden shot in the arm as Chinese investments have pushed the price up by almost $100 (see below). During a money laundering court case in Florida, an economics professor argued that bitcoins are “not money” by comparing the cryptocurrency to collectible baseball cards and comic books. In ...
The DevOps of Data: How Informatica Prepares Developers for the Age of Data 3.0 #INFA16
Last week’s Informatica World 2016 brought out a lot of talk involving data quality, real-time live data and the automation of ingesting and analyzing data in order to turn it into something businesses can use. Over the past years cloud technologies have delivered the power of provisioned elastic computing resources and expanded data capabilities to ...
uSens unlocks $20M to pioneer natural mobile VR human interaction
Today Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (ARVR) pioneer company uSens, Inc. announced a $20 million Series A funding round led by Fosun Kinzon Capital. The company intends to use this new investment to launch its powerful 26DOF (degrees of freedom) hand tracking and 6DOF head tracking software library. The solution developed by uSens enables developers to ...
Zeality seeks to bring virtual reality creators and brands into a social, mobile content ecosystem
Virtual reality mobile social engagement and content platform Zeality, Inc. shows what an emerging VR ecosystem will look like with its mobile app filled with 360-video and VR content. The Zeality app is available in both the Google Play Store and the iOS App Store and is compatible with Google Cardboard, Gear VR—and videos can ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 May 25: U.S. Postal Service looks into blockchain-technology, Bitcoin smart contracts by end of 2016, SaruTobi Android app
This week the Bitcoin community saw a fairly slow news cycle but there’s still some gems to be found. The United States Postal Service released a report on Monday outlining the government’s approach to using blockchain-technology to enhance what the post office already does, and add services such as financial services and identity management for ...
Neustar and Limelight partner up to fight DDoS on the open Internet
Neustar, Inc., real-time content neutral provider of information analysis services, and Limelight Networks Inc., global leader in digital content delivery, have joined forces to enable business customers to weather Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The partnership combines Neustar’s DDoS mitigation solution SiteProtect with Limelight’s content delivery network (CDN) to provide what the companies are ...
Software AG webMethods DevOps Edition announced for business design and continuous delivery
End-to-end digital business platform provider Software AG announced today the general availability of its new DevOps Edition for webMethods, a software suite and service for continuous development, testing integration and deployment. Built into the DevOps Edition is a set of tools to allow developers to write and launch apps with shorter lead times. The webMethods ...
Developers Guide to Google I/O 2016 Goodies: Android N, Daydream and Firebase
This year’s Google I/O 2016 ushered in announcements of multiple developer-related projects including the Android N developer preview, the release of Google VR Daydream and the integration of mobile backend service Firebase with the Google Cloud Platform. All of these projects come with their own developer hubs and documentation as well as interesting new features and goodies ...
Ransomware operator TeslaCrypt shuts down, releases master encryption key
Over the past few weeks the developers of the malicious ransomware TeslaCrypt, which would encrypt files or entire computers and hold them hostage, signaled that they were closing down operations. As time went on the project’s website slowly dismantled and payment sites began to vanish. Out of curiosity, a security researcher from ESET North America ...