Today, start-up Swipely announced the availability of a new social shopping service, backed by $8.5 million in capital, that would compete with established player Blippy. Not to be outdone, Blippy then announced the availability of a new API which lets third-party developers integrate Blippy data into their applications. Blippy co-founder
A recent survey of 400 North American developers by Evans Data reveals that they aren’t happy with mobile app stores. Eighty percent said they should receive more than 70 percent of the revenue for app downloads through app stores, and the majority preferred direct sales to end users over the
JRuby 1.5 is now available and includes 1,300 revisions and 432 bug fixes. The latest version of the Ruby variant that runs on Java Virtual Machines has been designed to “integrate well with the rest of the Java ecosystem,” explained project leader Charles Nutter. “Lots of Java libraries really need
Microsoft finally launched SharePoint and Office 2010 this morning, after about 18 months of preparation, at an event for customers and partners in New York. But the thousands of people who work with SharePoint in companies all over the world were not content to let Microsoft own center stage. SharePoint