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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Telerik Enhances Icenium Cross-Device Mobile Dev Platform with Visual Studio Extension

For decades, integrated development environments such as Microsoft Visual Studio, Eclipse or NetBeans served as the cornerstone for the development of applications. Typically these media are closely linked with a particular programming language. However, so far the operation of building and deploying applications on mobile platform are very time consuming. Telerik, known for its supporting ...

Tableau Developer Round Up: Visual Analytics for Everyone and Everywhere #tcc13

Last week, Tableau Customer Conference 2013 ended at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Washington, D.C. with 3200+ attendees from 40+ countries and 100+ industries. The conference was packed with a lineup of great sessions offered by Tableau customers, developers, product experts, and industry thought-leaders. For the past six years, data enthusiasts from ...

Remembering the Work of Nintendo Video Game Mastermind Hiroshi Yamauchi

Word of Yamauchi’s death arrived while the Tokyo Game Show is in full swing, the sad news instantly sobered the upbeat atmosphere. Hiroshi Yamauchi, the Japanese businessman that transformed Nintendo who used to make business card collection to become one of the leading gaming companies in the world, died at 85 years of age. Yamauchi ...

Feedly Opens APIs for Developers to Create Third-Party Applications

Since the closure of Google Reader in early July, Feedly has become the industry leader of RSS feeds. In late May, well before the end of Reader, Feedly had over 12 million registered users, it is very likely that since then that number has grown exponentially and the number of active users have also grown. ...

Fortumo Taps Into India to Bring New Markets to Mobile Developers

Leading mobile payments provider Fortumo just announced its foray into Indian market. The most developer-friendly mobile payments provider has launched the mobile payment service by entering into partnerships with four leading mobile operators in the country. As part of the partnership, Fortumo’s direct carrier billing (DCB) will now support four leading mobile provider in India: ...

Mobile Technology Developers Contribute to the Accelerating Growth of Linux

More and more companies contribute actively to the Linux kernel optimizations. The latest edition of Linux Development Report shows that companies that focus on mobile technology play an increasingly larger role in the development of the Linux kernel. The latest Linux Foundation report “Linux Kernel Development: How Fast It is Going, Who is Doing It, ...

Game Developers Say PS4 is 50% Faster Than Xbox One

It has been less than two months since the world premiere of the next gen gaming consoles and each company is confident about its technological advantage over the competition. Xbox One vs PlayStation 4–which is more worthwhile? This question is probably what many fans are asking about both contenders. But what does this say about ...

Google Chooses MariaDB at the Expense of Oracle MySQL

News that is likely to make noise where Oracle lives has come to light as Google decides to go with MariaDB as a replacement for MySQL. Although MySQL is still the most popular database system with open source code (although essentially controlled by Oracle), its position has begun to gradually deteriorate. In this recent development, ...

Tools for DDoS-Attacks are Gaining Popularity in Online Gaming Communities

DDoS attacks dominate the news nowadays. Large companies are frequently harassed by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, with great damage. Prolexic, a company that offers security services for DDoS has published a technical White Paper detailing what it calls “the rampant problem of denial of service attacks within and from online gaming communities.” The ...

Telerik Developer Community Gets Early Access to Apple iOS 7 Capabilities

Officially, Apple revealed iOS 7 on Tuesday and suddenly hundreds of thousands of developers around the world recoiled with horror realized that their applications will require major changes in order to work with the new operating system. Although many developers have indeed had access in the past three months in beta form–however, many of the changes ...