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Rogue Wave acquires Zend to boost enterprise web development
Earlier this week, Rogue Wave Software, Inc. announced the company’s acquisition of Zend Technologies Ltd., the industry leader in end-to-end PHP web and mobile application development and deployment solutions. Approximately 50 percent of web workload runs on PHP, including popular content management systems (CMS), such as WordPress and Drupal, which puts Rogue Wave in a ...
AWS training from Amazon makes developers first priority | #reinvent
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) exists in a marketplace filled with competitors such as Google, Microsoft, IBM and many others. AWS was also cited by the Gartner Magic Quadrant report for 2015 as being much larger than its 14 leading competitors combined—about 10 times bigger. This means that AWS has a gigantic reach and popularity ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 October 7: Winklevoss twins launch Gemini, Coin Fire burns Cryptsy, U.S. Marshals final Silk Road auction
In many ways it’s been a thankfully dry week for big Bitcoin news, but this is also an industry that never sleeps. The technology is evolving and the companies that work in the Bitcoin space continue to build market and interest. First up, the Gemini bitcoin exchange, brainchild of the Winklevoss twins, launches this week ...
Microsoft HoloLens is on tour: How to get your own personal demo
The future of augmented reality (AR) is almost here now that Microsoft has announced the 2016 Q1 release for the developer kit for the company’s HoloLens technology. When it was initially revealed in January of this year, the HoloLens showed huge promise, and with each new stage demonstration it has continued to live up to a ...
Fuse UX tools bridge the divide between mobile developers and designers
After a full year in beta, Fuse (Fusetools AS) is now announcing the release of its user experience design (UX) tool suite for developers and designers to rapidly create beautiful mobile apps. The tool suite provides a markup language and unique visual tools to bridge the gap between designer and developer while also delivering powerful ...
Daimler self-driving semi truck makes first test trek on German autobahn
Self-driving cars have grown leaps and bounds in capability as well as in size. This is the case of German auto-giant Daimler AG recently tested a standard Mercedes-Benz Actros truck fitted with the ‘Highway Pilot’ system by letting it loose on the autobahn, the famous highway-system in Germany. The system uses a combination of radar, ...
Patreon hacked: User names, email and mailing addresses compromised
Go-to site for people to support their favorite artists and Internet personalities Patreon, Inc. announced late last night that the website’s database had been compromised. According to a security advisory released at the time, the information accessed included “registered names, email addresses, posts, and some shipping addresses,” additionally some billing addresses added prior to 2014 ...
Akamai uncovers Linux Trojan XOR botnet capable of 150 Gbps attacks
This week, Internet content delivery service Akamai Technologies, Inc. published a cybersecurity advisory revealing a staggering new distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack botnet named XOR that is capable of attacks in excess of 150 gigabytes per second (Gbps). The botnet is made up of Linux machines infected with a Trojan designed to hijack systems running ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 September 30: R3 adds 13 banks, Naughty America says VR porn stirs bitcoin payment interest, 21 Bitcoin Computer on Amazon.com
Bitcoin continues to receive the college treatment with the opening of The Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering at Imperial College London. This adds to the ever increasing number of colleges and universities opening programs to examine and develop Bitcoin-related technologies from MIT to Stanford University. The distributed ledger (aka blockchain) technology startup R3 announced last ...
ERNIT piggy bank Kickstarter: Introducing kids to digital currency
It’s an old story about parenting, getting a child a hollow plastic or ceramic pig with a slot on the back so that coins can be inserted and stored. After inserting enough coins the pig would be smashed open and the coins used to buy something. A new Kickstarter by ERNIT seeks to bring the ...