June 8, 2010

WSO2 Launches Open-Source Cloud Platform

Cloud computing vendor WSO2 has announced the availability of “Stratos,” a fully hosted application platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for building and deploying apps and services. The open source cloud service leverages Carbon, the company’s SOA framework “Essentially, we are making our entire Carbon platform available as a PaaS,” said CEO Dr. Sanjiva

Application Developers Worry as Data Plans Are Capped

AT&T’s new tiered pricing plan that charges customers for the amount of data they consume has application development pros worried that people will stop downloading bandwidth-intensive apps. Noam Bardin, chief executive of app developer Waze, notes, “If people start thinking about how big a file is, or how fast an

MeeGo 1.0 Enters Crowded Mobile Field

Software developers looking for the next big thing in the mobile space might want to check out the recently released MeeGo 1.0, the new operating system produced jointly by Intel and Nokia. If it lives up to its initial release excitement, which saw MeeGo embraced by a slew of vendors,