Agile development specialist Alistair Cockburn acknowledges that "agile is not for every project, but the hard part is to name which projects it's not for." Broadly, anything where a need for 100% reliability exceeds the need for ...
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Infraware has announced the release of POLARIS? Office Enterprise Software Development Kit (SDK), equipping developers with a powerful solution to meet the needs of mobile enterprise customers. POLARIS Office Enterprise SDK integrates ...
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Third-party hardware and software developers can more easily design products that integrate with Philips' color-tunable Hue LED lamp using free tools. The Philips LED-based Hue lamp, launched late in 2012, has garnered an enthusiastic ...
Samsung Electronics is readying a smartphone based on the Tizen operating system to be released in the second half of this year, it said Friday. It has already found a customer: NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile carrier, plans to launch ...
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Facebook is planning a series of three events that will for the first time give mobile developers a chance to hear directly from the company and interact with its engineers and product managers. The events, which will take place in April ...
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Oracle this week announced that it is acquiring Nimbula, a provider of private cloud infrastructure management software with the intent of rounding out its software stack for building hybrid clouds. Based in Mountain View, California, ...
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ams AG (SIX: AMS), a designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog ICs for consumer and communications, industrial and medical and automotive applications, today introduced a new intelligent LED driver for mobile phone cameras that ...
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Philips on Monday launched a software developer program for the Hue line of iOS-controlled "smart LED" light bulbs, allowing app makers to integrate the lighting solution into third-party products. With the new software development kit ...
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New ways in which people can use their voices, hand gestures and head-and-eye movements to operate computers are being developed by software engineers using Intel tools, it was reported last week. In coming years, their research is ...
Software engineers are using Intel tools to explore new ways people can use their voices, hand gestures and head-and-eye movements to operate computers. In coming years, their research is expected to yield tools that could help developers ...
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Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: The US Video Game Industry Outlook to 2017 - Transition from Console to Online and Mobile Gaming EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The report titled "The US ...
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Europe's antitrust agency had put Microsoft on the honor system, letting the company monitor its own compliance with a 2009 settlement that required it to offer other browsers to Windows users, the EU's top regulator admitted. That ...
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ARM processors are used mostly in smartphones, but Boston Limited is offering a service through which developers can port existing x86 applications to work on ARM servers, which can then be tested via a cloud service. As part of the ...
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Europe’s antitrust chief on Wednesday announced a substantial €561 million (US$731 million) fine on Microsoft, but it could have been even higher, he said. The software giant was hit with the fine by the European Commission for ...
Microsoft is building a data center next to a Wyoming landfill in order to use its methane gas to power the facility. Apple now uses a massive 100-acre solar energy farm to power its Maiden, N.C., data center. And Google has placed data ...
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