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Firebase (YC S11) launches its iOS SDK, brings realtime capabilities to mobile - Y Combinator Posthaven

Today, Firebase hopes to change this with the launch of a mobile SDK bringing its scalable realtime backend platform to iOS. In other words, the company can offload the major engineering challenges to allow resource-constrained developers to build rich Web-like experiences for mobile, keeping users engaged and delivering updates as they occur.

Twitter has received a patent for, well, Twitter. Originally filed in 2008, the patent describes a "Device independent message distribution platform," and it was officially granted on Tuesday by The US Patents and Trademark Office, or USPTO. What exactly is a device independent message distribution platform?

THIN as a human hair and with a resolution four times that of similar devices, the world's slimmest endoscope could soon visualise the parts other scopes cannot reach. Endoscopes are used to look inside the body, and usually consist of a bundle of fibres that transmit light and images.

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To do that, the startup aims to provide teachers with tools that can help them create, administer and manage tests online, while making scores and results available immediately after testing.

NASA Administrator Congratulates Apollo Engine Recovery Team WASHINGTON -- The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on the successful recovery of Apollo Saturn V first stage engines announced Wednesday by Jeff Bezos, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the aerospace company Blue Origin and Amazon.com.

While the X51 is on the lower end of Alienware's price range, it is still one of their most popular models and accordingly is subject to very few discounts. This is especially true for the high end models, so the $300 savings we found on today's model are especially impressive.

In recent memory, rumors have surfaced that suggest the next Xbox, whether it be called the Xbox 720, Durango, or something else entirely, will be a console that is always connected to the internet. This unfortunate notion is commonly referred to as always-on DRM, usually requiring consumers to be online in order to access their software.

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The plunging price of organic LED screens combined with cunning use of depth-sensing Kinect cameras heralds a quantum leap in interactive advertising THE writing's on the wall - and it's following you. Two new gesture-sensing innovations designed for large electronic screens in public places herald a future in which everything from street art to advertisements track your movements, are fully interactive, and nigh on impossible to ignore.

CodePlex - Open Source Project Hosting

Microsoft's open source project hosting web site. You can use CodePlex to find open source software or create new projects to share with the world.

The BlackBerry Live 2013 early bird registration price of $449.00 USD ends this Friday, March 22nd. There isn't a better opportunity this year you as a developer to make connections with mobile decision makers from around the world. Interested in enterprise app development? Meet Information Technology admins, execs, and developers from Fortune 500 companies Have [...]

Although Backbone 1.0 includes internal refactoring, the API should be largely backwards compatible - at least from the tests I've been doing with my own Backbone projects against the releases on GitHub. There may be quirks that I've missed, however, so as always make sure you've carefully tested your code before releasing it.

High Scalability - High Scalability - Dart - Is it the Future of the Web?

John McCutchan , after a long career spent working on the Linux kernel and being hired out as a ...

Editor's Note: This post comes from Paulette McKay, Senior Content Publishing Manager on the Data Platform Team. There are some big changes this week to the technical content experience for Windows Azure, designed to make it easier for you to find exactly the content you're looking for as quickly as possible.

Here with a guest post from Anders Jeppsson - Global Head of Gaming at BlackBerry - Lou. I'm looking forward to next week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco (Mar 25-29). With the global launches of BlackBerry 10, there's never been a more exciting time to be a game developer on BlackBerry.

Symfony Docs Hack Day Needs You on March 30th Hi guys! It's a great time to be in the world of Symfony! Symfony 2.2 is out, Symfony 2.3 (the first LTS) is around the corner, and we're looking forward to the release of more projects that use Symfony components, like Drupal 8 and Laravel 4.

With ASP.NET 4.5, ASP.NET introduced model binding for web forms as well. Model binding helps to simplify code focused data access logic within web forms. Check out this video by Scott Hanselman to know more on ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms Model Binding.

This is a second post in the series all about ASP.NET Web API. The first post looked at getting started with the Web API . You can find the source code on Github. An important part of Web API is resource content negotiation.

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