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Breaking down the new features and major changes http://sdt.bz/67474 differentiating 2013 from 2012, delving into feature breakdowns of cloud-based options, TypeScript, the CodeLens editor, Peek Definition, .NET and ASP.NET 4.5.1, C++. To install or not install, ultimately that depends on what you need to get out of Visual Studio.
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Big Data has only gotten bigger in 2013. Blame it on enterprises deploying Hadoop to production environments, with newcomers like Hortonworks challenging the dominance of Cloudera, or on NoSQL users of databases like FoundationDB and VoltDB making waves in with top dogs MongoDB, DataStax and Cassandra, who are spreading data across hundreds of servers around the world at the same time. No matter who's responsible, however, 2013 was definitely the year http://sdt.bz/67515 in which Big Data became Big Business.
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Christmas came early for Android developers with Android 4 and up-specific updates http://sdt.bz/67519 to its XDK IDE for cross-platform HTML5 development. New remote debugging, JavaScript profiling and Web runtime based in the open-source Crosswalk project are available to analyze source code and improve JavaScript, WebGL and Web Audio performance. The XDK and all its other features http://software.intel.com/en-us/html5/blogs/intel-xdk-dec-release-announcement run on Android, Chrome, iOS, OS X, and Windows 7 and 8.
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rjmarvin writes:
Mobile development in 2013 http://sdt.bz/67510 was dominated by major OS overhauls, the slow takeover of the hybrid framework and the coming wave of wearable technology. While Apple debuted iOS 7 and two new iPhones to run it on, Google rolled out Android KitKat on Halloween and Microsoft made a splash with their acquisition of Nokia. While the big companies jockeyed for position, hybrid HTML5 apps are giving Native apps a run for their money, while Samsung's Galaxy Gear and Google Glass represent the first drops in the bucket of the wearable flood.
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The Nest Learning Thermostat is a very clever, albeit expensive device. Hook it up to your furnace or air conditioner, and not only does it learn what temperatures you like, but it also connects to your home or office WiFi network. That lets you monitor and control it remotely from a browser or mobile device. If you have multiple Nest devices, they will talk to each other. What the Nest definitely can do, however, is fail http://sdt.bz/67490 if the company pushes out a buggy software update, which happened in late November. The Nest 4.0 firmware http://support.nest.com/article/What-s-new-in-the-Nest-Thermostat-s-4-0-software-update apparently caused some number of Nest devices to go offline, leaving folks without heating or cooling.
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rjmarvin writes:
The newest Amazon Web Service, released to the public today http://sdt.bz/67489 is a service to process, manage and analyze real-time data streams. Amazon Kinesis http://aws.amazon.com/kinesis provides developers with a range of data capture and analysis tools to manipulate hundreds of terabytes of data per hour and processing it in real time. Use cases include monitoring application performance logs, minute-by-minute financial data, trending social media streams or user gaming data. Kinesis also comes with delivery and storage integration options to other Amazon services such as S3, Redshift and DynamoDB, along with elastic scalability for various-sized data streams and a GitHub-hosted client library https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client for creating Kinesis applications.
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Technology can now see you through walls. Researchers at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab are developing a system called WiTrack http://sdt.bz/67488 that senses the motion of a person through radio signals reflecting off their body to pinpoint location and movement WiTrack is based on a previous project called WiVi, developed by computer science professor Dina Katabi and graduate student Fadel Adib, that didn't provide exact locations. But Adib and Katabi in collaboration with computer science and engineering professor Rob Miller and graduate student Zach Kabela developed WiTrack, which is able to locate motion with significantly higher accuracy. WiTrack can currently only track one person at a time, but is evolving rapidly on MIT's end. The researchers believe, depending on the rate of industry adoption, that WiTrack has the potential to impact gaming, virtual reality and practical applications such as monitoring the elderly.
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The non-profit standards organization Ecma International is establishing a technical committee to publish a standard specification for Dart 1.0 http://sdt.bz/67481. Less than a month after Google released Dart announcing it's ready for wide Web use http://sdt.bz/66370, the Chromium team marked http://blog.chromium.org/2013/12/ecma-forms-tc52-for-dart-standardization.html this standardization as a step towards a future where Dart runs natively in web browsers.
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rjmarvin writes:
The Delhi High Court approved an appeal by Nokia today to unfreeze the company's Indian assets http://sdt.bz/67476, including the Chennai mobile phone factory set to be transferred to Microsoft as part of its devices and services acquisition. The decision was contingent on Nokia putting $367 million in escrow to go towards its imposed taxes. Nokia lobbied to lift the freeze to avoid holding up the deal or being forced to stay on as a subcontractor, though they're still on the hook http://sdt.bz/66468 for taxes and penalties to the tune of up to $3.4 billion for a financial period dating back to 2006. Microsoft, though, is in the clear.
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rjmarvin writes:
In the past few months, Samsung has realized its ambitions to reduce Android-dependence and unify its hardware under an expanded software presence are doomed without strong developer support. Through a packed slate of developer conferences, programs and incentives, and a lineup of new SDKs to converge smartphone, tablet and Smart TVs in the living room--or as Samsung SVP Curtis Sasaki calls it, "extending the couch"--Samsung is coming at developers on all fronts http://sdt.bz/66465 to bolster the number of apps unique to Galaxy devices, and ultimately to pave the way for Tizen OS.
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Today marked the beginning of Computer Science Education Week http://csedweek.org/ sponsored by code.org, and according to co-founder Hadi Partovi, the Hour of Code campaign--a way to get people of all ages to try coding for just an hour--over 5 million students in 35,000 schools in 167 countries worldwide are already participating http://sdt.bz/66460. CS Education Week is not only about Hour of Code, but also campaigning to integrate CS curricula into U.S. school districts and classrooms. Companies, celebrities and politicians from Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Google to Will.i.am, Chris Bosh, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, President Obama and more have all come out with videos and tutorials to support and contribute to Hour of Code and CS Education Week.
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rjmarvin writes:
Is that special someone a programmer you never seem to buy the right gift for? We've been there. But with a selection of coding geekery the likes of which has never been assembled before http://sdt.bz/66455, this year will be different. Want to decoreate the house with an 8-bit LED holiday wreath? No? How about a Minecraft light-up torch? An iPad Foosball table? Realm of Racket, smart toys or an nVidia Shield? If all else fails, you can always invest in some Bitcoin. Happy Holidays, and happy holiday shopping!
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Oracle hasn't given up http://sdt.bz/66453 on its claims that Google violated patents by using 37 of its Java APIs when developing the Android OS. Back in 2010 when the claim was first filed, Google responded by saying the Java language was freely accessible and couldn't be used without the APIs. A district court judge ruled in Google's favor in 2012 http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20120531172522459, but Oracle filed an appeal and during a hearing held Wednesday,a federal circuit judge questioned the precedent set by the previous ruling meant Google could APIs developed by other companies, like Apple or Microsoft.
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More than just Android developers are in the Glassware market. Newly integrated cross-platform development tools from Xamarin give Windows developers the ability to create applications for Google Glass in C-Sharp language http://sdt.bz/66451 Xamarin integrated the sneak peek of the GDK into its dev tools, the company anounced in a blog post http://blog.xamarin.com/develop-for-google-glass-with-xamarin.android/.
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History is repeating itself http://sdt.bz/66446, as IPOs and venture capital are pumping up the social media bubble, business models and profits be damned, at a rate so alarming we haven't seen it since...well since the last bubble burst in the late '90s. Twitter's stock is trading at 50 times its sales right now, LinkedIn at 134 times, while companies like Zynga and Groupon have floundered since their IPO.Then there are social companies like Box, Jive Software and Basecamp, wooing investors with a not-so-unique brand of social magic with some sleight of hand with numbers. At this rate the bubble will once again burst, and while some companies may emerge from it like Amazon and Google after the dot-com bust, many more will fall the way of AOL, Broadcast.com, Freeinternet.com and countless others. Haven't we been down this road before?
