How often do you have to manually apply the same steps when setting up an infrastructure environment for yourself? Being in charge of tens, hundreds, sometimes even thousands of servers also means that there are hundreds of deployments to handle, configurations to make, patches to apply, security issues to solve, and updates to download. Imagine ...

A significant portion of smartphone owners regularly use the Facebook app on mobile. And most certainly, many users have already seen many bugs and slowdowns despite regular updates. Some users prefer to use mobile web version of Facebook, which is much faster compared to mobile version. The story is that Facebook has preferred to develop ...

A few days ago YouTube sets the new rules on gaming videos, resulting from the introduction of a controversial machine verification Content ID. The idea would be to search the submitted material portions of copyright contents and then passes the income from creator to their owners. But in reality, unfortunately, it does not look so ...

Native development for mobile platforms requires proficiency in several programming languages. For each mobile OS, the developer is encouraged to create a specific application, which generates additional costs and does not facilitate the maintenance of these applications.  HTML5 has initially emerged as a solution to this problem, resulting in its rapid adoption for mobile developers. ...

The augmented reality game Ingress transforms the real world into a global playing field, in which you interact via a smartphone app with the environment. After operational for more than a year in beta, Google’s Niantic Labs has announced the public availability of its location-based game Ingress game in Android platform. Ingress launched in November ...

Most compilers currently are black boxes–they make the source code into object files or assemblies in a sort of “code goes in, executable comes out” fashion. The purpose of “Roslyn Project” from Microsoft is to open the Visual Basic compiler and C#, giving developers the ability to use the API. Roslyn can be used for ...

If you try to search the web on the mobile, smartphone users still find the mobile search experience woefully inadequate. Even the newest smartphones and tablets don’t provide people an easy way to search and, despite all the advancements in mobile, text search on mobile devices still presents an unacceptable user experience. Studio Ousia, a ...

Hadoop just gained a new tool. The company Revolution Analytics (RA) modified its package for statistical analysis of Revolution R Enterprise 7 (RRE 7), so that the R language can also be used for Hadoop platform users. With the integration of R with Hadoop, big data analysis will get a huge boost to productivity. The ...

With the vast arrays of platform, programming language, and technology choices available today, it can be very difficult for software developers to figure out where to best invest time in training skills. Most often the question asked is whether or not you should invest your time in a particular software/technology vs. another. With the opportunity ...

The HP Discover event from 10 to 12 December is again shown all kinds of IT know-how in the Spanish metropolis and celebrated the megatrends–big data, cloud, converged infrastructure, security and risk management etc. HP Discover conference in Barcelona, are meant to provide customers with greater agility, simplified management, improved security and lower costs in ...