The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released EnviroAtlas, a web-based interactive tool that integrates over 300 separate data layers, helps decision makers understand the implications of planning and policy decisions on our ...
Tags: Ecosystem Mapping, EPA, certification
American automobile manufacturer Ford Motor has partnered with Siemens to pilot a new software, IntoSite, that facilitates virtual navigation within its assembly plants. This new software will enable the company to improve global ...
Tags: automobile, Ford Motor, Siemens, IntoSite, virtual navigation
After running the service in preview mode for over a year, Google is making its IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) Google Compute Engine (GCE) available as a full-fledged commercial service. The company has established a service level ...
Myfacetee's concept is simple, with the use of their custom web application; people can create their very own Facetee avatar, choose from a selection of premium garments, have it produced and delivered to their doorstep, then share it with ...
Tags: Apparel
Nginx is releasing a commercial edition of its namesake open source Web server software, called Nginx Plus, which it will market as a software alternative to application delivery controllers (ADCs). "The features that have been added are ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) today announced that they will collaborate to rapidly scale up the construction of green buildings in emerging markets. The new partnership demonstrates ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Green Building
The World Wide Web Consortium has finalized its specification for Web Storage, a technology that would give Web applications more flexibility in storing data on user machines. Now that Web Storage is an official specification, browser ...
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Microsoft kicked off its Build conference in San Francisco this week by releasing a preview of the next version of its Visual Studio IDE, as well as updates to other development tools. How user input and follow-up interactions are ...
Tags: Microsoft, Visual Studio Tools, App
Red Hat has put out a beta release of Software Collections 1.0, in a bid to let developers use newer versions of languages such as Ruby and Python with support. For certain applications, a more recent version of a language than what's ...
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More than a third of SMEs have implemented policies and IT systems to manage employees’ devices for work purposes, a Citrix-commissioned YouGov survey has discovered. The survey of senior executives and managers - in more than 1,250 ...
The next version of Microsoft's relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems. SQL Server 2014 will come with a new in-memory OLTP engine, one built ...
Compuware has updated its application performance management (APM) software to give administrators more insight into what might be slowing application performance, thanks to the inclusion of new metrics showing the operational health of the ...
Tags: Compuware, Application Monitoring
Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Ruby on Rails Web application development framework in order to compromise Web servers and create a botnet. The Ruby on Rails development team released a security patch for ...
Tags: Ruby on Rails, Hacker, Botnet
The Journal of Industrial Textiles has published the results of a study conducted by Texas Tech University and Enercon Industries that determined when spunbond polypropylene nonwoven fabrics are pre-treated with atmospheric plasma it ...
Tags: Atmospheric Plasma, Fabrics, Textile
Users of the Hadoop data processing platform now have two more search engines to help them sort through their mountains of information. Hadoop distributor MapR has integrated the LucidWorks Search into its own distribution. And Cloudera ...
Tags: Computer Products, Hadoop