Back at Google I/O in May, the corporate showed off a brand new app translation service for Android developers. Briefly, it could allow developers to rent professional translators through Google who would then translate their app into however many languages they needed. Now the service is finally able to go live. Google announced today that developers large and small are invited to apply the company’s new app translation service. The corporate says that launching an app in multiple languages will don’t forget to see more success as your app could be more readily accessible in parts of the area that don’t speak your native language. While the app translation service could have gone live today, many developers have already been using it as portion of a pilot program. Google says people who participated within the program saw incredible results from localizing their apps, with one developer finding that 80 percent of installs came from non-English speaking users. If testimonials are your thing, you will see... Read More »

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 »