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AWS Offers General Availability For Node.js, The Popular Development Platform

Node.js is the everyman’s platform for developing apps. It’s JavaScript on the server. It’s relatively uncomplicated to learn and it’s immensely well-kown. Now Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released the Node.js SDK for general availability.

According to a blog post, AWS has added a number of features since the preview release in December. These brand-new additions that developers can use include…

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Samsung покупает “облачную” Joyent

Южнокорейская компания Samsung Electronics покупает американский стартап Joyent Inc., работающий в сфере “облачных” технологий. В то же время компании не разглашают сумму сделки.

Приобретение Joyent Inc. позволит южнокорейскому производителю электроники создать собственную “облачную” платформу вместо того, чтобы использовать дата-центры других компаний для управления интернет-сервисами, отмечается…

Samsung Has Bought a Cloud-Computing Company that Could Give Mobile VR a Big Boost

With the recent introduction of Google Daydream, the mobile VR space is heating up. Now a new acquisition from Samsung could help to power even more immersive VR on smartphones.

The Korean electronics giant has this month purchased Joyent, a cloud computing company. According to The Wall Street Journal, however, Samsung is not looking to go up against its many rivals in this sector, which include Amazon Web Service, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Instead Injong Rhee, chief technology officer of Samsung’s mobile division, reasons that this acquisition was more to do with “software and services”. Apparently the company will utilize cloud-computing to handle intensive applications. Rhee suggested that one of these could be VR.

What this could mean is that we soon see VR experiences running on Samsung phones that aren’t powered by the handset itself. Instead they’re running elsewhere on more powerful tech and then displayed on the phone’s screen.

In this way, Rhee reasons that the phone becomes more of an “interface device”. This could mean that we get to see much more demanding VR experiences running on mobile hardware in the future. Graphics could be vastly improved as could the scale of VR experience, all without taxing the smartphone hardware that can overheat when used for too long.

Samsung to Acquire Joyent, a Leading Public and Private Cloud Provider

Samsung Electronics on 16 June 2016 announced that it has agreed to acquire Joyent, Inc., a leading public and private cloud provider. With Joyent’s superior cloud technology, Samsung will now have access to its own cloud platform capable of supporting its growing lineup of mobile, Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud-based software and services. The transaction remains subject to customary closing…