Salesforce to deliver more crucial IT solutions with ISV partners
Salesforce has big plans with its ISV (Independent Software Vendors) partners. The company wants to play a much larger role in the choice for strategic IT solutions of its customers. The aim is that customers no longer look at Gartner's reports or read Techzine to learn about great solutions, but c...
Rust programming language hits the big league
Major players like AWS and Microsoft are adopting Rust, and the language is quickly gaining popularity with developers.
Mozilla's programming language Rust has boosted its popularity by leaps and bounds this past year. Rust this week published its latest Rust Survey showing a dramatic increase ...
GitHub to ban passwords starting in 2021
The platform will move to token based authentication next August
Microsoft's GitHub has announced that it plans to stop accepting account passwords as a way to authenticate Git operations. Starting August 13, 2021, the platform will accept only token based authentication. They will run a two wee...
5G is 90% more energy-efficient than 4G, Nokia/Telefonica study shows
According to a new study published by Nokia and Telefonica, 5G is 90% more energy-efficient than 4G networks. After studying the Radio Access Network power consumption in Telefonica's network, these findings show that 5G is the gift that keeps giving.
The study used Nokia’s AirScale Base Stati...
Software testing: nobody questions the need, but it’s not done enough
Many companies develop their own software, whether it's a standalone application, an extension to their ERP suite, a mobile app to improve customer experience or something even simpler like the company website. Testing these new applications is done way too little, even though it's vital.
There ...
Microsoft makes large deep learning models more cost efficient
Breakthroughs in scaling now allows even smaller developers to work with large deep learning models. Microsofts new DeepSpeed tool is a breaktrough in scaling AI.
Microsoft has released a new version of its open-source DeepSpeed tool that it says will enable the creation of "extremely large" d...
Latest release of C++ is boosting its popularity with developers
New features are making C++ the fastest growing language in the developer community.
It's been 35 years since C++ first appeared on the scene. The language quickly became one of the top three programming languages worldwide, with a market share of 17.53% in 2003. Since then, C++ has dropped in p...
Should Europe compete for technological world domination?
The United States is in the process of increasing their dominance in the world. It does this by arguing with other countries, starting trade wars and by banning companies, products and services. The technology sector plays a major role in their attempt to stay in the lead. The trade war is focusing...
Google makes Flutter more suitable for cross platform development
Google has added new features to its popular Flutter application development tool. Application developers should soon be able to develop more advanced web-based applications.
Flutter is a popular open-source development tool that makes it easier to build interfaces for applications. The tool hel...
AWS enters low-code market with Amazon Honeycode
AWS introduces a platform for business users to develop software and applications using low-code. The managed service Amazon Honeycode should help customers to develop applications without any knowledge of programming.
Low-code is becoming popular fast and AWS is trying to get a piece of the pie...
5G ready to storm the world, shows survey
Even before coronavirus forced people to use video conferencing to stay in touch with each other, businesses expected improved video capabilities to be one of the biggest benefits of 5G.
A report published by Nokia showed that 90% of users rated uninterrupted and high-quality video streams as ...
Microsoft’s Visual Studio Online rebranded to Codespaces
Microsoft has renamed Visual Studio Online to Visual Studio Codespaces. The prices for all tiers will also be lowered mid-May.
The reason for the rebranding is because Microsoft wants to make it clear that their product is more than only an "editor in a browser". Microsoft wrote this in a blog p...