Saroj Kar

Saroj is a Staff Writer at SiliconANGLE covering DevOps, Emerging Tech, Mobile and Gaming news. If you have a story idea or tip, send it to @SiliconAngle on Twitter.

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Google is shaping AngularJS 2.0 as a future framework for mobile apps

The next version of AngularJS is currently in a design and prototype phase. Nevertheless, Google has announced where the journey is going. As per Google, AngularJS 2.0 is a framework for mobile apps. The framework will continue to be supported for desktops, but the primary focus will be on getting the mobile bit right. Right ...

Google to take developers help to create armada of Android wearables with Android Wear

Confirming the rumors in recent weeks and after having monopolized the smartphones and tablets sectors, Google is planning to conquer the market for wearable devices such as smartwatches and smartbands. Ahead of the release of Apple’s much rumored “iWatch” wearable product, Google has now officially announced Android’s entrance into wearables with project “Android Wear.” It ...

Virtual reality is the next innovation from Sony for future of PlayStation 4

Sony is on the verge of taking the gaming experience and virtual reality a step further with the PlayStation 4. Sony unveiled its virtual reality device called “Project Morpheus” during the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, United States. After an exhibition explaining the internal efforts of the company in this field and showing various ...

Google reaches out to Apple developers with cross platform gaming support

Google’s gaming ambitions took another step forward. The search giant Android team is attending the 2014 Game Developers Conference, where it announced a new version of Google Play Games Services that enables cross-platform multiplayer support for iOS and Android. Google’s Play Game is already connected to iOS through Unity game engine plugin which is capable ...

Is MapReduce merely a new implementation of old ideas writ to scale?

Big Data as an industry buzzword doesn’t appear to be fading in popularity any time soon. Big Data is more of a business problem and everyone agrees with the Big Data definitions currently in use that Hadoop and MapReduce have become synonymous with basically anything Big Data related. Organizations are moving away from aggregation of ...

Python 3.4.0 release introduces PEP 450 integration and new modules

After around 18 months of development, Python 3.4 has been released. There were no new language changes for this release, but there were many new features in the standard library and CPython implementation. Python 3.4 may not incorporate any new syntax features but it does have other new features, new library modules, improved library modules, ...

Samsung uses Xamarin to strengthen Knox development

Last year, McAfee said it had discovered 17,000 new malware suspects on the Google platform in just the second quarter of 2013. A problem that obviously concerns Samsung, the largest manufacturer of Android devices. The bad reputation of the OS may indeed hurt the Korean manufacturer, especially in business where the issue of BYOD (Bring ...

How Star Citizen catapulted from a $500k Kickstarter into a $40 million project

He lives for his childhood dream. For Chris Roberts, the creative mind behind Wing Commander, the global success of that game an important event in his life. The President and CCO at Cloud Imperium Games Corporation climbed the gaming industry ladder in 1986 with Origin where he first developed the RPG Times of Lore. He ...

In-app mobile monetization start-up Vungle adds Bitcoin as a payment option for developers

Bitcoin is an interesting, trending cryptocurrency capable of making transactions across the Internet easy–and due to ever-increasing notoriety in the press is becoming ever more popular.  As a result, mobile developers might be turning their eyes to this digital currency in an attempt to tap into an audience who trade in it. Vungle, a mobile ...

ICANN without U.S. control: Step towards freedom?

A few days before the 25th anniversary of the birth of the Web, a few days after the request of Tim Berners-Lee for a Charter of Rights of the Web, a few hours after the phone call from Mark Zuckerberg to President Barack Obama, and at the backdrop of the NSA saga, the United States announced ...