IoT and big data are both very technology-driven developments. The IoT and Smart City scenario will bring enormous market opportunities as well as make citizen lives smarter. The products around us are becoming more intelligent. Namely these developments change our behavior. We are in the midst of an era where we are discovering new opportunities ...

If you are performing the virtual integration or deployment of batch, real or near real time, or Hadoop, Informatica PowerCenter Enterprise supports any style or data integration technology, all from the same graphical user interface. The data integration software company now released a newer PowerCenter 9.6 version, with new capabilities that make it easier to ...

SAP America has announced that it is partnering with Xamarin and Service2Media to provide developers a mobile development frameworks that allow them to create apps on its SAP Mobile Platform. These environments are intended to build custom mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows Phone devices from a single code base. The Xamarin platform allows ...

Cloudant the company behind CouchDB has released open-source Android and iOS sync libraries for developers to manage and replicate mobile application data on phones, tablets and other occasionally connected devices. The Cloudant Sync for Android and Cloudant Sync for iOS libraries are designed for use by mobile developers to build offline access in their mobile applications. ...

Titanfall is a new (hopefully) blockbuster game for the Xbox One.  It’s coming out from publisher Electronic Arts and is due to be released in March 2014. The beta tests attracted more than 2 million players. The full game is planned for a March 11 release for the Xbox One and PC; although Xbox 360 ...

Las Vegas-based company, Robocoin, last-week announced the installation of the first automated teller machines (ATMs) in Seattle and Austin later this month. According to Reuters, the U.S. welcomed its first Bitcoin ATMs last Thursday. Robocoin kiosks will let consumers buy and sell Bitcoin for cash. Following in the footsteps of Canada, which introduced the machines ...

What would happen if you built a 3D sensor on a smartphone? Google is trying to find an answer to this question and thus introduced Project Tango designed to explore this possibility. Google’s department for advanced technologies (ATAP) Project Tango is a new frontier for Google which opens the door to professional developers willing to push ...

Through the middle of 2013, IBM has shown a keen interest in the cloud gaming industry. After the acquisition of cloud server company SoftLayer that serves more than 25,000 customers, IBM states that the number of active players that use the IBM SoftLayer cloud since 2012 has grown to 130 million people. Last month, KUULUU, ...

With one press of the button, and you can get a meal out of the printer, specifically tailored to your taste, and health condition. For now this is still very far from reality, but worldwide there are more and more companies and start-ups that get started with 3D printing of food. It is already possible ...

Google last week announced a partnership with VMware, the software power house engaged in the development of tools dedicated to virtualization. The goal is to enable all persons who are in possession of a Chromebook to access Windows platforms to manage desktops, applications and data, leveraging Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS), Blast/HTML5 and related technology, already available for ...