Twilio has been selected as a Leader in Gartner's first-ever Magic Quadrant for Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS). Twilio credits the smartphone, and the convergence it created, for making CPaaS viable: ...

Linux long-term support (LTS) kernels will have a smaller support window, a major change for the Linux community. LTS Linux kernels have historically received support and security updates for six years. Many point-release Linux distributions, such as Linux Mint, Ubuntu LTS, and Debian, rely on LTS kernels. Combined with the LTS support the individual distro provides, an...

WhatsApp has released an iPad beta, finally giving users one of the most requested features in the app's history. WhatsApp has never had a native iPad version, forcing users to either use the iPhone version or a third-party alternative. Neither is the most appealing option, but WhatsApp is finally on the verge of giving users an official version. ...

Amazon has announced plans to hire 250,000 employees for the holiday season, up from 150,000 hires the year before. Amazon traditionally hires a large number of workers to help it keep up with holiday sales, but this year, the company looks to be hiring the biggest number yet. Acc...

Microsoft Paint is getting a major upgrade, one that will help it better compete with more feature-rich image editors, at least for its target audience. Microsoft Paint is a basic image editor that comes with Windows. While it is perfectly capable of the most basic actions, it lacks features that more traditional image editors have...at least until now. ...