If you’re a developer and would like to implement something that interact with the Bitcoin protocol, there is some good news for you. BitPay–one of the most important providers that allow you to integrate the encrypted, virtual currency payments on your website or in your app–launched Bitcore, a set of open source Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) ...

A milestone event for the Social Media world was the 2012 London Summer Olympics. The 2012 Summer Olympics was the first that leveraged big data analytics in a major way to understand sentiment and reveal trends in real time. Unsurprisingly, live coverage had generated reams of content during the games. This year Winter Olympics game ...

Building automation tools for the purpose of developing and testing applications can be hampered by differences in the organization of local data center infrastructures and cloud services. Ravello Systems corrects this problem with its Cloud Application Hypervisor, provided via a SaaS model. Ravello has accelerated its SaaS offerings with new plug-ins and RESTful APIs to ...

Cloud based testing simulations can help prevent web disasters during games like the prestigious Olympics. For the last Olympic official site, London2012.com, the London Organizing Committee used SOASTA cloud-based testing tools to simulate up to a billion people accessing the site from several countries. The Mountain View, Calif., firm announced that Olympic Committee has awarded ...

The technology used for person-to-person communication, such as mobile phones or PCs has become ubiquitous due to network infrastructure, wireless technology, and the Internet. But perhaps a technology is still not widely used is Machine 2 Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT)—the science that meets the need for communication between their devices such as ...

There is something GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) has been lacking for quite some time and a possible collaberation with LLVM/Clang (ow Level Virtual Machine) might help add it. However, some criticisms of this alliance may yet apply. GCC–the GNU Compiler Collection–is a compiler compilation for a wide variety of programming languages. It is free software ...

3D printing is a candidate that will revolutionize production patterns and lifestyles, such as computing in the last century and the mobile communication currently. As was the case with computers and mobile phones, this shifting of gears will happen with 3D printing technology along with miniaturization, cost reduction and ease of use. One such step ...

Google has released the software development kit for its HDMI Streaming Chromecast to all developers. Previously it was available only for selected partners like HBO, Pandora and Netflix. Google has now made available the official SDK package for the development of applications dedicated to Chromecast, which will be distributed on Android and iOS. For sale ...

Splunk, the leading provider of operational intelligence software used to monitor, report and analyze real-time machine data, released a new plug-in for Eclipse for building applications that use and extend Splunk. Eclipse is an integrated development environment for open source platforms to develop what the project calls rich client applications, as opposed to the light-weight browser-based applications.  This ...

The cloud has conceptually influenced software development, design and testing–changing the nature of both simple and complex systems. As companies leverage the capabilities of the cloud developers and administrators find it more necessary to have the tools on hand to react frictionlessly to deployment and management. CloudMunch, seeking to ease cloud transition for DevOps via ...