Yodo1, a leading publisher of Western smartphone games to Chinese iOS/Android market, recently officially announced a Global Publishing Platform for Worldwide Game Distribution. This means that besides China, the company will publish the games to the global mobile market as well. Very soon this fall, Yodo1’s first global title: Cavemania will be commercially available. Cavemania ...

AOptix, Campbell-based provider of intuitive biometric identity verification solutions and wireless communications technology, recently announced the general availability of its SDK for Stratus. AOptix Stratus Client Software Development Kit (SDK) is the hardware and app that transforms the iPhone into a biometrics scanning tool, making identity faster, cheaper and more accurate for teams in defense, ...

With increasing number of cheats and misbehaving people online, Microsoft has come up with a plan to safeguard its users. To avoid the harassment of “cheats and jerks” online with the next console generation, Microsoft has created a new and enhanced reputation algorithm for Xbox One. Moving away from the Xbox Live’s survey option, Microsoft ...

Recently, a new GUI-based generator for Vagrant/Puppet environments was launched, named as Puphpet. It is a simple, easy to use web app that targets PHP developers and the classic LAMP stack. While PuPHPet is a Vagrant automation tool, it uses Puppet as the provisioning backend. Those who are not much familiar with both these names, ...

After Yahoo bought Tumblr, the company said that its adult and porn blogs would be left alone. But recently, Yahoo’s new adult blog search policy surfaced, which includes excluding adult blogs from Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other search engines. This has led to 10% of Tumblr’s user base becoming invisible and almost impossible to find. ...

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is quite optimistic about the future of the company vis-à-vis said company’s growing video game business. The company recently forecasted a strong financial outlook and has also shown profitability in the current third fiscal quarter ending Sept. 30. AMD’s revenue in the third quarter is expected to grow 22 percent from ...

After Apple’s Developer Center was taken offline on Thursday, the company called it extended site maintenance; but recently, Apple admitted that the Developer Center was hacked, and hackers might have accessed the key developer information. The acclaimed iPhone manufacturer said that its website for third-party developers was hacked by “an intruder”, but customer information was ...

Introducing kids to programming at an early stage is a great idea, provided the tool is also interesting and easy to use. In order to assist tech- savvy kids in their programming learning endeavors, No Starch Press has come up with a graphical drag-and-drop programming tool that takes out the risk of syntax errors. This ...

Telerik, the market-leading provider of end-to-end solutions for application development, automated testing, agile project management, reporting, and content management across all major development platforms, recently announced a significant update to Icenium, the industry’s first Integrated Cloud Environment (ICE) that reinvents cross-platform mobile development. With this development, Telerik has now become the first to offer a ...

There are so many JavaScript caching database around, but if you are looking for something new and dynamic, go for PouchDB. This new minimalist JavaScript database allows you to build applications that work both offline and online. Besides, applications save data locally allowing you to use an app even offline, and synchronize data between clients ...