Developers love the latest and greatest development tooling. And next up it’s Kafka, a real-time framework for managing data streams or YARN (or Yet Another Resource Manager) aka MapReduce 2.0, the next generation processing framework for Apache Hadoop. Continuuity, the provider of scale-out application server for Apache Hadoop, announced the release of Weave, a new ...

Android consoles are all the rage, and BlueStacks is hoping its new console could pull ahead the game with an amazing feature. The gaming console, GamePop, is far more than many consoles based on Android that are about to appear on the market. Unfortunately, even today Apple is superior to Android in the gaming apps market with ...

Two-thirds of all software development projects lead to failures or partial failures. Projects are often more expensive than originally planned, do not meet deadlines, often do not provide the functionality required by the customer or be stopped long before it is delivered. An important part of this problem is directly attributable to the use of ...

Consumers are adopting technology faster than ever. We witnessed the rapid mainstreaming of devices such as Apple’s iOS devices, Microsoft Kinect, and Android devices etc. Wearable devices will be next, but right now they are far from the mainstream. Wearable devices or wearable computing have enormous potential for uses in social networking, commerce, health and ...

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is without doubt one of the best Star Wars games and role-playing games of all time. Launched for the first time in 2003 on the Microsoft Xbox, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is considered as one of the best games in the gaming world. Knights of the ...

Government services have to be so good that people want to tell their friends about them. These services should be easy to find and simple to use and also be cost effective and SME-friendly. Open source technologies used in GOV.UK government site has been establishing itself. The data site is a watershed in how government ...

When it comes to cloud computing, IT staff finds it challenging to adapt the changing project requirement, budget changes, change in the cloud model and in terms of how they manage IT. Luckily, Private Platform as a Service (PaaS) empowers IT and DevOps to take control and develop, deploy, and shift applications from one cloud ...

Git is a version control system in the distributed source code management applications category for managing projects. Every Git working directory is a repository with complete history and full change tracking, without a central server or network access. Git is used in the open source scene often as a development platform, including the Linux kernel, ...

  At its recently concluded I/O developers conference, Google introduced various updates to its social networking platform. This year’s event is focused on software and services, not hardware. Still, it’s easy to see how the new features dovetail with Google’s overall hardware/device strategy. Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins, Founding Editor of SiliconANGLE, had an in-depth conversation with the ...

What would be the current hype with all the punditry and speculation about the power of next-gen consoles without the word “cloud”? The cloud that will form the basis of the new generation of Xbox One will be based on 300,000 servers, compared to 15,000 at present for Xbox Live. According to Jeff Henshaw, group ...