Paving the way for more server-side use of JavaScript, platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider Engine Yard has added the Node.js library to its collection of hosted Web application tools. The service, which Engine Yard first offered as a ...
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Judy Klickstein is a cloud believer. As CIO of Cambridge Health Alliance, a midsized healthcare provider just outside of Boston, she's excited about the efficiencies cloud computing can bring to her organization. Outsourcing management of ...
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Google will begin to phase out its Sync service for consumers and discontinue several other services in early January. The shuttering of the services, described as "winter cleaning" by the company, was announced in a post on its official ...
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Attachments.me, which lets Gmail users send attachments to and access files on several cloud storage services, now also works with Microsoft’s SkyDrive. To add support for SkyDrive, Attachments.me is taking advantage of some recent ...
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WSO2 began offering this week an open source API manager, providing managed API access and governance. Available at the WSO2 website, WSO2 API Manager is intended to help developers find, evaluate, and subscribe to APIs. "The management ...
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Google on Thursday made accommodations for Java and Python developers by offering a Java-to-Objective-C translator and advancing its Python client library for Google APIs. With the open source release of J2ObjC, Google has authored a ...
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Google yesterday patched 24 vulnerabilities in Chrome, and paid out $29,500 in bounties to nine researchers, more than half of that to one of the company’s most prolific bug finders. Chrome 22, which Google started pushing to ...
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Microsoft likes to talk about Windows 8 as being Windows “reimagined,” and in many ways it is quite a departure from its predecessors. To allow the operating system’s use across a range of touchscreen devices, Microsoft ...
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HTML5 tools vendor Sencha unveiled today Sencha Complete Team, which bundles existing tools with an Eclipse plug-in, a desktop application packager, and data connectors. Developers using the suite can build HTML5-based business ...
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HP this week will unveil a software-defined networking portfolio that spans infrastructure, control plane operations and applications in an effort to lead the emerging SDN market. HP will roll out its own SDN controller, a separate ...
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The news-sharing website Digg will be acquired by technology investment firm Betaworks, according to blog posts put out by both companies. Betaworks paid $500,000 for the social media pioneer that once secured $45 million in financial ...
Epom Ad Server, a leading provider of ad serving technologies operated by Epom Ltd., announced that major improvements have occurred in its platfrom. New features have been launched, and new pricing plans for ad networks have been ...
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Late next year, consumers will be able to buy smartphones that either come with native hypervisor software or use an app allowing them to run two interfaces on the phone: one for personal use, one for work. The technology could help ...
Tags: AMD, Business devices, BYOD, consumer, Dual hypervisor, enterprise
The changes Twitter is making to its API policies triggered a wave of protest among its developers, but they might be necessary for the strategy Twitter has laid out for itself to make money and keep growing its service. The stricter ...
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Microsoft has given a makeover to its SkyDrive cloud storage service, including a new Web interface, as well as improvements to its desktop applications and developer API, the company announced on Tuesday. It's not surprising that ...
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