Applications
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.
Timeline
Tech behind Apple Pay available to other providers as of iOS 18.1
Apple is going to open up its NFC and tap-to-pay Secure Element functionality in iOS to alternative providers...
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Google Gemini for Android: redundant or a matter of getting used to?
Available for hundreds of Android models
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Making enterprise software smarter and more effective with AI
Making AI a core component of the stack
Linux Foundation takes charge of open-source AI initiative
The Linux Foundation is taking charge of the Open Model Initiative (OMI). This initiative aims to develop fre...
End nearby for Microsoft Paint 3D
Microsoft will stop updating its Paint 3D application at the end of this year. It is possible that the applic...
Hugging Face buys AI file management platform XetHub
Hugging Face recently acquired XetHub. With this, the hosting platform for LLMs is buying a start-up that hel...
Microsoft reminds Exchange 2016 users of end of support
Microsoft has extended support for Exchange 2016. However, the end date of this support is fast approaching. ...
Apple modifies App Store policy again for DMA: what’s changing?
Apple is proactively making changes to its App Store in hopes of avoiding a fine. The changes come specifical...
YouTube experiments with Gemini for help with video creation
AI-powered suggestions for creatives lacking inspiration
Tens of thousands of Chrome extensions at risk due to Manifest V3
Many tens of thousands of Chrome web extensions are not yet compatible with Google's new Manifest V3 extensio...