The success of games on mobile devices has begun to significantly affect the video game industry. Free-to-play format in mobile devices has begun to invade both PC gaming and console gaming, and nearly all developers and gaming publishers are now putting out games for Android and iOS devices. The success of Oculus Rift and the ...

South Korea dominates the world of smartphones with the Samsung and LG taking half of the world’s smartphone market. Taking into account only a sense of one-upmanship, it makes sense that North Korea may want to follow suit. North Korea has unveiled its new smartphone, the “Arirang,” an Android clone named after a famous Korean ...

The peculiarity of the use of DevOps in some IT organizations is to move to encoding configuration and allowing that to regulate an automated lifecycle. Fortunately, many tools exist to do this following a similar basis to business logic where developers create applications and infrastructure configuration in the form of code or scripts. To make ...

The increasing volume, variety and velocity of information enables organizations to tackle new problems and challenges. One of the things striking the market nowadays is that organizations are trying to pick their big data engine or platform not just for analytics, but for a multitude of different data needs. Hadoop, for example, is a distributed ...

The success of tablets and smartphones has led to a change in the ways advertising agencies target mobile users. The broad popularity of mobility is creating a tremendous opportunity for mobile advertising and mobile developers. Gartner projects mobile ad revenues across Western Europe are projected to grow from $1.6 billion to $1.9 billion and in ...

Do you prefer native or HTML5 applications? This is a question that is becoming more and more difficult to answer because HTML5 has blossomed into a very mature platform. There are still many benefits to go with native, whereas HTML5 based apps require more effort in testing with a number of devices and libraries to ...

To enhance the creativity and motivation of the team, some companies allow their employees to use a portion of the working hours in order to concentrate on personal projects. This practice is the brainchild of William L. McKnight of 3M in the 50s. Granting 15% of the time working to develop personal projects proves to ...

John Carmack, one of the most distinguished and important figure in the whole gaming history, has officially announced his entry into the team Oculus VR, the company engaged in the development of the Oculus Rift for augmented reality. The father of the legendary DOOM and Quake series will play company’s Chief Technology Officer, but without ...

Despite transitioning from mini web browser games to mobile platform, times are still good for InnoGames. The Harburg based Germany games provider has continued its sustained growth trend in the first half of 2013. InnoGames is one of the world’s leading developers and providers of online games with over 100 million registered players The company ...

With the name of OpenPower Consortium, several leading companies in the technology sector have created an alliance to develop IBM chips for data centers in the cloud. The coalition includes IBM, Google and Nvidia, as well as Tyan Computer, a Taiwanese company that produces servers, and Israel Mellanox Technologies, which specializes in the design of ...