Technologies

Oracle Has Unveiled its Cloud-based Online Storefront Solution

This entry was posted in Technologies on July 21, 2015.

Oracle Commerce Cloud, the new cloud-based online storefront solution from Oracle, aims to provide a simple and customizable e-commerce solution. This solution is hosted in the Oracle Public Cloud, as the newest addition to the Oracle Customer Experience SaaS portfolio. The storefront builder from Oracle’s Commerce Cloud provides design templates and modular widgets to create […]

Internet of Things expansion predictions

This entry was posted in Technologies on July 17, 2015.

A McKinsey study tries to quantify the economic impact of IoT on our near future as it is expected to usher in improvements to machines’ reliability and to our lives. According to this study the annual value of IoT apps may reach around 11% of the world’s economy by 2025. They assume that governments and […]

5 Great Use Cases for Node.js

This entry was posted in Technologies on July 10, 2015.

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome’s JavaScript runtime that untangles concurrency by replacing the Java platform’s standard, multi-threaded approach with single-threaded, event-driven I/O. Node.js is a divisive topic in the programming world: it would seem that for each enthusiastic supporter praising its advantages, there is a vocal counterpart highlighting its shortcomings, or at least […]

Adapted Android and iOS apps to run on the upcoming Windows 10

This entry was posted in Miscellaneous, Technologies on June 8, 2015.

Good news for developers at this year’s Build Conference: application developers will be enabled to modify and adapt Android and iOS applications to run on Windows 10. We’re talking about two new software development kits (SDKs), that Microsoft says is going to enable developers to use C++ and Java on Windows 10 and Objective C […]

Anticipatory computing – the path to the near future

This entry was posted in Miscellaneous, Technologies on June 5, 2015.

Technological advancement dedicated to the best user experience is the dream that many software development and tech research companies pursue. This dream raises huge challenges and many questions, but probably the most frequently recurrent question is “How can a computer or device anticipate the users’ needs without driving them crazy?” Anticipatory computing could, for example, […]

Top 3 eCommerce tools to help you boost sales

This entry was posted in Technologies on May 29, 2015.

The latest reports indicate that retail sales will increase constantly throughout 2015 in the US, reaching almost $5000 billion. Only the eCommerce part will experience a 14 percent increase in sales and it is predicted to hit $279 Billion. But sales are going to grow constantly worldwide in the months to come, after reaching bottom […]

NativeScript – Short overview of the first public beta release

This entry was posted in Technologies on April 20, 2015.

The first beta version of NativeScript is now available for the public. Telerik started the project a little more than a year ago and is now able to deliver a framework which will allow developers to create mobile apps using the native capabilities of the mobile devices. The framework’s potential is great, although you will find […]

Android SQLite Database

This entry was posted in Technologies on April 7, 2015.

Android provides several ways to store user and app data. SQLite is one way of storing the application data, locally, on the device. SQLite supports all the relational database features common on the Oracle databases or Microsoft SQL Server. In order to access this database it must be used the API provided by Android which […]

Angular 2.0 – a radically new approach for building mobile and desktop web applications

This entry was posted in Technologies on April 1, 2015.

Recently a few details about the next major Angular release have emerged which actually is a whole new rewrite rather than an update. We were led to this conclusion by the first code samples revealed by the Angular team at the ng-europe conference in Paris. So what is Angular 2 going to offer in addition […]

Native vs. Mobile web vs. Hybrid

This entry was posted in Technologies on January 23, 2015.

Nowadays, at any corner people are using a smartphone. No doubt, over the past years these devices had a huge impact on our lives and still have. People enjoy using their smartphones because they can accomplish many things on the go such as reading e-mails, social networking, watching movies and plenty of other activities. If […]