This is going to be a breakthrough year as far as proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) is concerned. According to Gartner, as many as 8.4 million smart gadgets will be in active use by the end of 2017 – and, for the first time ever, the number of ‘connected devices’ will […]
The worldwide contingent of software developers is growing at exponential rates every year. By the end of 2015, more than 21 million individuals were into making software applications on a full-time basis. Interestingly, 1 out of every 2 software makers is a mobile app developer. We are now a couple of months into 2016, and […]
It has taken some time to happen – but Apple finally made its Swift programming language open-source earlier this month. With this, Swift has joined the likes of Go (Google), Rust (Mozilla) and .NET (Microsoft) open source languages. The announcement had been made at this year’s WWDC in June, and since then, the iOS app […]