Tag: Software & Applications

April 8, 2015

Docker is hot. It was the second “best overall open source cloud project”, according to a survey by the Linux Foundation and The New Stack last July. And Google Trends shows Docker accelerating in buzz ahead of OpenStack and virtualization, […]

April 6, 2015

A new open-source tool can periodically scan an area for rogue Wi-Fi access points and can alert network administrators if any are found. The tool, called EvilAP_Defender, was designed specifically to detect malicious access points that are configured by attackers […]

April 3, 2015

VirtualBox, the open source virtualization system originally created by Sun and now under Oracle’s stewardship, has released its first revision to the left of the decimal point in nearly five years. Don’t expect anything truly revolutionary, though, judging from the […]

April 3, 2015

Back in September 2014, Google launched the “App Runtime for Chrome” (ARC), a tool that allowed developers to test their Android apps on any Chrome OS device. Today, the Android creators took things one step further and announced the ARC […]

April 1, 2015

Mozilla today launched Firefox 37 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Notable additions to the browser include HTML5 playback improvements on YouTube for Windows computers, and improved download performance for Android devices. Firefox 37 for the desktop is available for […]

March 31, 2015

Microsoft is releasing a preview of its Internet Explorer successor, Project Spartan, today. The new browser, which will be the default web experience in Windows 10, is part of an update to the PC Windows 10 preview. Microsoft promised faster […]

March 26, 2015

LibreOffice’s next big target isn’t Microsoft Office. It’s Office Online and Google Docs. Collabora, one of the major contributors to the open source LibreOffice productivity suite, has announced a partnership with messaging-solutions provider IceWarp to produce a Web-based version of […]

March 25, 2015

Microsoft announced a major change to its browser strategy today: only Project Spartan, the company’s new browser shipping on all Windows 10 devices (smartphones, tablets, PCs, and so on), will feature the company’s new rendering engine. Internet Explorer will still […]

March 25, 2015

Microsoft’s latest addition to Azure, App Service, is all business. It’s partly a re-branding of existing Azure services and partly all-new offerings, all ganged together to woo enterprise developers with a one-stop shop for building Web and mobile apps for […]

March 24, 2015

Microsoft said it will offer businesses a slower update tempo for Office 2016, just as it has already promised for Windows 10. Companies that subscribe to Office 365 ProPlus, Enterprise E3 or Enterprise E4 — the three top-tier rent-not-own plans […]

March 19, 2015

Microsoft has unveiled the first public look at Bing Distill, a service for answering user questions. The technology also ties in with Microsoft’s ongoing work in machine learning, paralleling IBM’s use of real-world data to enrich its galaxy of Watson-powered […]

March 18, 2015

Scala “is no longer essentially a single-host language”, Odersky said. “Now, essentially Scala.js is a grown-up language. People use it for production code”. Part of the Scala project, Scala.js, also is high-performing, he added. “In quite a few benchmarks, Scala.js […]

March 18, 2015

Office 365 has been touted as Microsoft’s fastest growing business ever. Still, some organizations are stalling when it comes to moving mailboxes from on-premises Exchange to Office 365’s cloud Exchange. What’s the holdup? For some, the need to plan and […]

March 16, 2015

Go, a Google-developed open source language intended to focus on simplicity and efficiency, has been getting a lot of attention lately. Launched late in 2009, the statically typed language is perhaps best known for its use in the development of […]

March 16, 2015

A startup fresh out of private beta offers a three-way intersection between machine learning, the API economy, and open source developers’ need to monetize their creations.Algorithmia, which launched privately last year, allows users to build algorithms, make them available as a […]

March 16, 2015

No question about it: Docker’s app container system has made its mark and become a staple in many IT environments. With its accelerating adoption, it’s bound to stick around for a good long time.But there’s no end to the debate […]

March 16, 2015

Every year, millions of fans watch the NCAA basketball tournament, filling out their brackets in the hopes of winning cash money. This year, Microsoft’s Bing search engine will be adding its own predictions to March Madness, giving you an edge.After […]

March 16, 2015

VMware’s VMware Horizon desktop virtualization software suite will soon deliver virtual Linux desktops over a network, in addition to the Microsoft Windows desktops it has long provided for remote workers. The company has launched an early access program for customers […]

March 13, 2015

Once again, Docker has set its sights a little wider by acquiring an outside firm. But the acquired company doesn’t ease the use of Docker on the server, Docker’s typical stomping ground. Rather, it focuses on using Docker on Mac […]

March 12, 2015

Marketing automation platforms have proven value. The number of systems available in the space has tripled each of the last two years, and in the high end of the B2B space penetration has jumped from about 5 percent last year to over […]