Cloud testing is an innovation that uses virtaulized resources to test software applications in a way that more-closely mimicks the way it might be affected by being out in the wild. Clearly, when you want to test a website, you need machines that connect to your site to verify proper operation. Sauce Labs‘s cloud-based service ...

So far, digital acquired games have all the comforts but lacks one major drawback – you cannot give or share with other gamers. Online retailer Steam puts an end to this limitation. Valve has officially announced the opening of the new Family Sharing Steam service, which will allow players to share their games on the ...

Expectations related to DevOps adoption by companies remain high, but even more significant are the benefits obtained by those who have already climbed on board with this solution. It’s obvious that experience contributes to the success. Businesses are gradually discovering what works and does not work. And we can get some insight as to what ...

San Francisco-based AppDirect, which offers a cloud service marketplace and distributed web-based management platform, announced it has acquired Standing Cloud, a Boulder-based start-up offering cloud management services, such as automated software packaging and orchestration. Founded in 2009, Standing Cloud has deployed packaged services to a wide range of cloud partners, including IBM, Amazon, Savvis and ...

Enterprises have made great progress in deploying technological solutions to protect themselves from direct and indirect external threats, however the rise and increased sophistication of attacks which target customers and internal attacks indicate that there is a new threat that has to be addressed. Phishing and pharming (luring people to disclose sensitive information by using ...

The communications solutions provider Pexip–based in Oslo, London, and New York–has announced the general availability of Pexip Infinity, a scalable software video platform. The idea behind the Infinity is to help companies to easily scale collaboration opportunities in a cost effective manner, which is becoming increasingly important for organizations to deal with the growing mobile work ...

Snowden’s disclosures have already done much to unveil the alarming scale of U.S. government spying on its own citizens and on people around the world. U.S. citizens are supposedly protected by guarantees of the Constitution from this sort of spying, while the NSA has a free hand to supervise any other person on the planet. ...

Zapier, a service that automates tasks between online services, has announced a tool that can connect Google Glass to any of the other 237+ services Zapier supports. The new tool, Zapier’s Google Glass app, is designed to take full advantage of Glass apps. Mike Knoop, one of the co-founder of Zapier, said the app has ...

Demonstrating the potential of Big Data technologies requires expertise from different areas. Data Science, data mining, and big data analytics are some of the expert roles that bring together the diverse skills needed to deal with big data technologies, products, and services to optimize the operations of a company. Amid those skills are the languages ...

A few days ago, a post entitled Autoworkers of Our Generation appeared, comparing the automobile industry of fifty years ago to software development today. In his post, Greg Baugues argues that 50 years ago, autoworkers enjoyed the same demand and perks that software developers receive today. Autoworkers held a job that didn’t require a degree ...