Mobile Payments War Heats Up, Starbucks Sets the Standards

Mellisa Tolentino | August 23rd

There’s a huge chance that you’ve noticed a trend on just released or soon-to-be released smartphones.  And I’m not talking about 4G.  More smartphones are coming pre-packaged with mobile payment capabilities, either via apps or Near Field Communication...»

Awesome Hover Bike Lets You Fly Like a Jedi Warrior!

Mike Wheatley | August 23rd

If there’s one thing from the Star Wars movies that I could to bring to life, it would have to be Darth Vadar’s light sabre – to this day, it’s still by far and away the coolest sci-fi...»

Sqrrl Makes the Case for Another NoSQL: Accumulo

Tavis J. Hampton | August 22nd

Recently, Wikibon's Chief Analyst, Dave Vellante, had a talk with Oren Falkowitz, CEO of big data startup Sqrrl, about the company's development and work on the open source project Accumulo. Although there is...»

The Secret Habit of the World’s Best Performing SaaS Teams

Guest Author | August 22nd

Those of us who manage project teams know the value of predictable, repeatable, and high-quality project execution. When we don’t meet that bar, a cascade of side effects occurs, ranging from poor team morale to a loss of...»

Piston Cloud Unveils Free, Easy OpenStack Distro For Internal IT

Maria Deutscher | August 22nd

Piston Cloud’s flagship offering is Enterprise OpenStack, a tweaked up distribution of the increasingly popular open-source cloud platform. The only problem is that if you don’t happen to be deploying on a very large scale configuring all...»

Engine Yard Adds Node.js Support

Maria Deutscher | August 21st

Engine Yard is one of the most widely used developer-oriented PaaS solutions out there, but up until now it could only run Rails and PHP. In the next 30 days the platform will be receiving

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk Now Supports Python Applications

Isha Suri | August 21st

Okay, here’s the good news for the Python developer community! Being the easiest way to deploy and manage scalable PHP, Java, .NET, AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Python applications that run on the familiar Apache HTTP server...»

Telerik Announces Full Support for New Visual Studio 2012

Isha Suri | August 21st

Telerik, a leading provider of end-to-end software application, lifecycle and content management solutions, today announced that it will now provide full support for the Microsoft Visual Studio 2012. Telerik revealed that it has moved swiftly and in...»

Springpad and Snooth Make Fine Foodie Pairings

Kristen Nicole | August 21st

The beauty of curation is the context that builds around your collections, and it’s a social development made popular by the likes of Pinterest, Evernote and to some extent Facebook.  One company was built with contextualized curation in...»

Google Input Tools Adds Arabic Script Translation

Mike Wheatley | August 20th

As part of its efforts to make the internet more accessible for those who use other languages besides English, Google has just unveiled a new tool which can automatically translate Roman-character based Arabic (known as Arabizi) into...»