Earlier this year, Google added quick action buttons in Gmail. They seem on messages inside the inbox, and permit users to do so on them without even having to open them. Initial examples included such things as checking in for flights, responding to event invites, reviews, confirming registrations, etc. Today, Google announced that it has added more sorts of quick actions. “For example, you are able to rate and review restaurants you ordered from on Seamless or even modify OpenTable reservations—all without opening an email,” writes Google’s Claudio Cherubino in a blog post. “And for the deal lovers in the market, you could conveniently save a promotion from Google Offers with one click, making it easy to seek out and purchase it when you’re ready.” “If you’re an avid uploader of YouTube and Vimeo videos, you could view finished uploads with a single click with the hot ‘View video’ button,” Cherubino adds. “Similarly, you also can speedily open a Dropbox folder or Google Docs, Sheets,... Read More »

TechSherpas recently announced that it’s now a CompTIA Authorized partner. The CompTIA Authorized Partner Program recognizes CompTIA training and courseware partners for sophistication and certification materials quality. The corporate explains: CompTIA builds vendor-neutral certifications that measure foundational skills. They show employers you’ve gotten the abilities to do the job, whatever the vendor of the hardware or software product. CompTIA certifications are recommend for many who are only starting a career in IT, and aren’t yet set on a vendor specific technology like Microsoft, Cisco, VMware, etc. They’re universal, and are a prerequisite to many IT jobs or even higher level vendor-specific certifications, like those mentioned. Those seeking entry level positions as a pc technician, technical support representative, help desk specialist, network administrator, network engineer, network technician, security analyst, security specialist, or network security engineer should explore the assorted certifications CompTIA has to provide. To become a partners, the corporate needed to complete what it calls a “stringent” application process, and it must abide by CompTIA... Read More »

In a couple of year, we’ll be treated to Linux 4.0. It’s creator, Linus Torvalds, desires to know if it will focus exclusively on bug fixes and stability. PCWorld reports that Torvalds made the controversial suggestion during a Q&A session at LinuxCon Europe in October. He was asked by Intel’s Linux chief Dirk Honhdel if he thought the Linux development community should focus entirely on bug fixes in an upcoming release. In a blog post posted a couple of days ago, Torvalds revisits that query: “we’re attending to release numbers where i need to take off my socks to count that top again. I’m comfortable with 3 , but I don’t want us to get to the types of crazy numbers we had within the 2.x series, so in some unspecified time in the future we’re going to chop over from 3.x to 4.x, simply to keep the numbers small and simple to bear in mind. We’re not there yet, but i might actually like... Read More »

Despite building Fire OS on top of Android, Amazon wants developers to select its platform over Android or iOS when building apps. During the last year, it’s become easier to recommend the platform as Amazon has leveraged the facility of AWS to provide quite a lot of services to developers which are typically hard to implement on their lonesome. Amazon announced today that it’s continuing so as to add value to its platform with the addition of analytics and A/B testing to all developers who make apps for the Amazon Appstore. Because the retailer notes, developers “who build their very own analytics and testing solutions are forced to spend time on building and scaling backend services.” By providing the services through AWS, Amazon says developers can come again to doing what they do best – building content. “Mobile developers really need to grasp how customers are using their app,” said Mike George, Vp of Amazon Appstore, Games and Cloud Drive. “We’ve spent years at Amazon... Read More »

In an effort to get indie developers to make Wii U games, Nintendo offered free development tools, like a Unity license, in exchange for games. Now Microsoft’s indie program – ID@Xbox – is offering the identical deal. Unity CEO David Helgason announced today that Microsoft has reached an agreement with the indie friendly engine to provide free Unity licenses to all members of its ID@Xbox program. In other words, indie developers who join Microsoft’s indie development program gets a free Unity license to exploit in developing indie titles for the Xbox One. Here’s the relevant portion of the announcement: Unity and Microsoft will now be working together to bring the Xbox One deployment add-directly to all developers registered with the ID@Xbox program without charge to the developers. That is huge news and implies that everyone that’s a part of that program, not only partners to Microsoft Games Studios, shall be capable of benefit from Unity to create awesome gaming experiences for the Xbox One. On... Read More »