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Everyone uses applications on a daily basis. Building, integrating and running them requires quite a bit from people and systems. Application development has recently undergone a huge metamorphosis. In particular, the emergence of cloud-native application development has caused fundamental changes. AI, especially GenAI, has also caused a major shift. Finally, the world’s largest OS, Microsoft Windows, also makes regular appearances on this page. You will stay up to date on all relevant application developments here.
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Mastercard buys identity verification company Ekata
Mastercard will acquire Ekata's Identity Engine SaaS in a deal worth $850 million This week Mastercard mo...
Microsoft Edge receives Performance mode
Microsoft has released a test version of its Edge browser that includes a so-called Performance mode. This mo...
Microsoft received nearly 25.000 data requests in six months
In the period from July to December 2020, Microsoft was asked 24,798 times by a government agency to disclose...
Microsoft moves to unify its Edge codebase across all platforms
The company is launching a new version of Edge on the Canary channel on Android. Microsoft is making a ver...
New Chrome features boost productivity and lower memory usage
Enhancements offer users a "productivity boost" during the pandemic, according to Google. Last week Google...
Firefox and WordPress turn their backs on Google’s advertisement AI
Two big names in the internet world have spoken out against Google's FLoC system. Both Mozilla, the developer...
Syntax acquires Linke for SAP-on-AWS capabilities
Syntax announced that it has acquired Linke, a European provider of services used in migrating SAP environmen...
Mozilla will disable FTP in Firefox 88 and remove it in Firefox 90
FTP links will no longer be handled by Mozilla Firefox. The browser is planning to rip out its FTP implementa...
Canonical optimizes mini-Kubernetes for Raspberry Pi
Canonical has made MicroK8s, its simplified version of Kubernetes, suitable for the Raspberry Pi and Nvidia J...
Microsoft is quietly killing Timeline
The most recent Windows 10 release reveals a dark and limited future for the Timeline feature. Windows 10 ...