Yesterday, the Xbox One S was already leaked, but today Microsoft confirmed the existence of the small Xbox One console. The console will start at $ 299 starting this August, and is 40% smaller the the current Xbox One console.
Generals Motors is on its way to design self-driving cars. It has announced to hire 1,000 engineers and software developers at its research facilities in Ontario near Toronto. In a press statement Mark Reuss, GM executive vice president of global product development stated, “With this recent expansion, GM Canada will play a prominent role in the evolution towards vehicles that are connected, autonomous, shared and electric.”
On a drizzly San Francisco afternoon in March, Ludovic Le Moan, 52, climbs to the roof of San Francisco’s stately public library. He’s there to check on a 5-foot pole equipped with a small antenna and a briefcase-size box. It’s one of 22 “base stations” his French startup, Sigfox, has placed throughout the city and one of 6,000 it operates across 18 countries as part of its improbable quest: building a wireless network that will cover at least 100 U.S. cities by year’s end and eventually span much of the planet.
South Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics Co. on Monday released the latest version of its Samsung Printing Smart UX Center (Smart UX Center) software update kit, an android-based software platform for its corporate-use multifunction printers, to enable software developers to freely change printer functions based on customized needs of the office equipment users.
For outsiders, software development may seem difficult – of course – but relatively straightforward given the relevant training. Development partners are given the business problem or brief, the timeline, and the budget. From there, it’s happy coding… right? Not so much. Software development is an inherently complex and nuanced task, and requires both experience and talent to achieve the desired outcomes. It also requires an in-depth understanding of the systems and processes needed to get to a certain point.