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Ansible Partners With Cisco, CSC, HP And Rackspace To Make Deploying And Managing OpenStack Easier
Enterprise IT automation service Ansible today announced that it’s partnering with HP, RackSpace, CSC, Cisco and the open source community to help make deploying and managing OpenStack clouds easier. While the open source cloud computing platform is now extremely powerful, few of its users would argue that it is very easy to stand up an OpenStack cloud. Read More
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Apple’s App Analytics Beta Opens To All Developers
Apple is making the beta of its new App Analytics product available for all registered developers, starting today. The program lets developers provides users with access to a selection of metrics regarding their app and its usage, including what types of devices are accessing their software, and from where in the world they’re using them. The native analytics feature don’t appear to… Read More
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Facebook Starts Hosting Publishers’ “Instant Articles”
You can check out Instant Articles for yourself by visiting the feature’s Facebook Page on an iPhone. For more on Facebook’s strategy, read our feature piece: Facebook’s Quest To Absorb The Internet. Assuaging publishers’ fears that Facebook would keep all the data, the social network will share analytics, and Instant Articles is compatible with audience measurement… Read More
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Cisco Snags Tropo Communications Development Platform
When you think of Cisco, it’s easy to pigeon-hole them as a networking equipment company, but Cisco also has a communications and collaboration side that includes WebEx. Today, it announced its intent to buy Tropo, a Twilio-like communications platform for adding telephony, messaging and other communications tools to any application. As I wrote yesterday, APIs are making it simpler… Read More
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Meerkat Launches Developer Platform To Differentiate From Periscope
How did it feel getting cut off by Twitter with just 2 hours notice? “It sucked” says Meerkat founder Ben Rubin. That’s why it’s determined to treat developers with more respect. In the nine weeks since Meerkat launched, 37 developers have built companion experiences to the livestreaming apps on its unofficial, private API, including stream discovery, automatic uploads… Read More
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Google Launches Cloud Bigtable, A Highly Scalable And Performant NoSQL Database
With Cloud Bigtable, Google is launching a new NoSQL database offering today that, as the name implies, is powered by the company’s Bigtable data storage system, but with the added twist that it’s compatible with the Apache HBase API — which itself is based on Google’s Bigtable project. Bigtable powers the likes of Gmail, Google Search and Google Analytics, so this… Read More
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Fiksu’s New Service Lets Developers Track Apple Watch Apps
There are already over 3,500 Apple Watch apps available on the market, but it’s unclear which ones will stick around for the long haul, and which will be discarded as the novelty wears off. Today, mobile app marketing firm Fiksu is introducing a new product that will allow Apple Watch app developers to track adoption of Watch apps among early adopters, with the hopes of informing them… Read More
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Airtable Launches Its API And Embedded Databases
Two months after launching its unique organizational tool, Airtable is rolling out two new features that’ll make it easier to share your personal spreadsheet/database hybrids with others in a way they’ll find useful. In addition to sharing direct read or edit access to the relational databases you create in its app, Airtable is today letting you draw from the underlying data using… Read More
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Unity Will Be Able To Build Games For Microsoft’s HoloLens
The Unity game engine is arguably the de facto standard for those dabbling with Oculus Rift development.
But that doesn’t mean the Unity/Rift relationship is particularly exclusive — that’s hardly Unity’s style.
Thus, Unity today announced incoming support for an entirely different headset platform: Microsoft’s crazy hologram-style Augmented Reality headset… Read More
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Microsoft Makes It Easier For Developers To Bring Their Android And iOS Apps To Windows 10
Today as expected, Microsoft announced that developers will be able to more easily bring their Android applications to Windows devices. The company said developers will be able to “reuse nearly all the Java and C++ code from an Android phone app to create apps for phones running Windows 10.” Developers will also be able to recycle their Objective-C apps for iOS using new tools… Read More
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