AWS Summit 2013 took place last month, and recently Amazon published the slides for the event. The primary focus of the event was on cost effectiveness, security, big data, and DevOps. Clearly, it targets the entire IT industry, especially the developer community. The keynote at AWS Summit 2013 Germany was delivered by Werner Vogels, CTO ...

The much awaited IBM Technical Summit – Innovate 2013 recently kicked off at Orlando. Scheduled for June 2 -6, 2013, the event will showcase cutting edge technologies at an expo, over 450 technology sessions, certifications and entertainment evenings. You’ll also see and hear Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, The Lean Startup author Eric Ries, and TV ...

Want to play Skee-ball in a whole new way? Google has launched yet another Chrome experiment, called Roll It. Basically a virtual Skee-ball game, this Chrome experiment allows players to compete with friends on their mobile devices. Roll It is a modern version of the classic boardwalk game that you can play on the Chrome ...

Guild Wars 2, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), recently had its API released in its API Development forum. The game maker, ArenaNet, LLC, has created a dedicated thread document on its forum to give information about all available APIs for Guild Wars 2, which are currently in beta form. Nowadays, MMORPG games pull ...

Virustotal, Splunk, and Bro are different tools, but all aimed at monitoring and analyzing swaths of data. While all three tools are good individually, we’ve come across a decent example of using all these tools together. In a blog post, Keith Tyler told about an experiment using Virustotal’s API to search md5’s gathered from Bro logs ...

Perhaps everyone would love the convenience of working from home. Though there are several professions that allow you to work remotely, it is not commonly heard that software developers work from home. They are expected to work on high-end systems, latest technologies that are usually available at work places, coordinate with other teams and clients, ...

“Increasing Agility w/ DevOps, Cloud and Continuous Delivery” That’s the title of CloudMunch’s first Google Hangout, which it is hosting on air with CEO Pradeep Prabhu and “The Phoenix Project” author Gene Kim. The event is scheduled for Friday, May 31 from 10-10:45 AM. CloudMunch, a provider of SaaS based DevOps tools will discuss about ...

Making yet-another-addition to its expanding empire, Yahoo has acquired PlayerScale, a California-based gaming infrastructure startup. But financial details of the deal haven’t been disclosed yet. PlayerScale is a cross-platform game infrastructure startup that provides tools for games played by 150 million users on platforms such as iOS and Android. The company was founded in 2009 ...

Telerik, a global cross-platform software tools provider, is getting ready to roll out a new version of its breakthrough Icenium product, which will preview unified backend support for mobile apps. Icenium lets developers build mobile apps, mobile websites and hybrid apps for any platform and any device without having to use specific proprietary SDKs or ...

Oracle recently announced the new version numbering scheme for Java Standard Edition (SE). The new release numbering scheme has been devised for upcoming Java SE releases. “With the recent increase of security releases we have been skipping numbers and have already had to renumber releases1. To avoid confusion caused by renumbering releases, we are adopting ...