What’s the value of an API?
We've seen a big expansion in the use of APIs recently with big companies like IBM keen to stake their claim to a slice of the revenue opportunity they provide.
But what's an API really worth? Software quality company SmartBear has produced an infographic which sets out to answer that question.
Microsoft's Project Oxford can detect human emotions
In a scene in the 2014 sci-fi movie Robocop, the namesake main character analyzes his enemy’s emotional condition and concludes that violence is imminent.
You can say he successfully detected emotions. For a living person, that isn’t really a big deal, but for a computer, that’s science fiction. Or, to be precise, that was science fiction. Not any more.
How BSIMM improves security by letting developers compare security practices [Q&A]
Every organization believes that it's making its systems secure, but because they usually work in isolation from competitors and other businesses they have no way of knowing how they compare.
The Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM) aims to quantify security practices and present them in a measurable way to allow companies to compare their performance.
Twistlock strengthens container security for enterprises on Google Cloud
More and more businesses are adopting a container strategy but this leads to problems for operations and security staff seeking to maintain control and visibility.
Container security specialist Twistlock released its Container Security Suite in beta back in May and has now announced general availability of the product along with its participation in the Google Cloud Platform partner program.
ARM's new IoT mbed products could bring 8-week battery life to wearables
At ARM TechCon 2015, ARM is unveiling a number of new mbed IoT Device Platform products. Designed to make it easier to deploy IoT devices on a large scale, developers will be able to use mbed Device Connector to build cloud-integrated web apps.
There's also a new build of the mbed OS Technology Preview and together these technologies can be used to connect and securely manage IoT devices. Two new reference designs for industry and wearables have also been released.
New compliance solution helps developers tackle software piracy
A recent study by the Business Software Alliance estimated that 43 percent of software installed today is not properly licensed, which equates to more than $63 billion in lost revenue.
SmartFlow Compliance Solutions is launching an innovative solution designed to help companies combat intellectual property theft and establish effective in-house compliance programs.
Addressing the mobile app trust gap
According to a new survey 80 percent of consumers would stop being a customer if there were a security breach in a company's mobile app. But app developers admit in the same study that many apps are not secure due to pressure to release them to market before they are ready.
These findings come from mobile security and analytics company Bluebox Security which talked to over 400 consumers and approximately 300 developers.
New solution helps track hybrid mobile app performance
Gartner predicts that by 2016 more than 50 percent of mobile apps will be hybrid, combining elements of both native and Web applications.
This allows apps to benefit from the portability of HTML5 Web apps along with a container that allows access to a device's native features. For businesses they offer faster development with easier updating and management.
IBM announces new solutions for the API economy
APIs are the glue which allow different parts of systems data and logic to connect and they’re changing the way businesses and IT departments work.
But whilst they make life easier for the user, they present new challenges for enterprises and developers who need to ensure security and management of APIs at the back end, while maintaining a dynamic consumer experience at the front end.
CloudCenter platform simplifies application deployments
Managing development projects across an enterprise can be a complex process, involving tracking multiple phases and teams.
Cloud management company CliQr's latest CloudCenter platform introduces features that help developer and operations teams simplify and streamline deployment of any application to any data center, public or private cloud.
Commvault releases next generation open data platform
Managing data in increasingly fast-paced business environments is a major challenge for companies. The latest release from data protection and information management specialist Commvault is seeking to address this with new levels of openness and flexibility.
The powerful combination of Commvault Software, the Commvault Data Platform and a range of professional services and support gives enterprises of all sizes the ability to open up new opportunities to reduce legacy spend, be released from vendor lock-in, find pathways to more modern environments, and drive new efficiencies and speed in their IT operations.
Platform enhancements seek to unlock the power of big data
Businesses today have access to more data about their operations and their customers than ever before, but often that data is an underused resource.
Business intelligence company GoodData today announces new platform enhancements aimed at unlocking the value of data and widely distributing analytics to the people who are making business decisions on a daily basis.
New AI product combines human and machine intelligence
A number of major companies including IBM, Microsoft and Amazon have launched new machine learning platforms in the past year.
But data enrichment company CrowdFlower believes that to be effective and commercially viable machine learning needs more training and better data.
Intelligent APIs help protect businesses from cyber threats
There are expected to be over 40 billion active wireless devices by 2020, opening up new opportunities for business. However, this rapid growth also opens up new vulnerabilities leading to operational disruption, intellectual property loss, brand reputation and financial fraud.
To help businesses protect themselves API management specialist Apigee is launching Apigee Sense, a data-driven security solution that uses a high volume of API call data and predictive analytics to continually identify bad bots.
Google will crank the mobile web up to warp speed with Accelerated Mobile Pages
Google today announced a project which has the aim of speeding up the web for mobile users -- Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP. While there are clearly benefits for users in speeding up the web, Google is pushing the benefits that advertisers could reap: if a page takes too long to load, visitors may give up and not see any ads at all.
The AMP project is an open source initiative that gives publishers the ability to optimize their site code for mobiles so it will "load instantly everywhere". The aim is to be as platform independent as possible, allowing for optimize-once workflow. The result of a collaboration between Google, Twitter, WordPress, LinkedIn and others, a new open framework called AMP HTML has been put together from existing web technologies.
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