March 15, 2011

A new study published by White House technology advisors takes issue with the old joke that says “What the hardware giveth, the software taketh away.” In fact, the report finds

“Technical debt” is defined as the amount of money that companies must spend to maintain their code. When that debt gets too high, it can stop work on more innovative

Adobe has released a new tool called “Wallaby” that converts Flash apps into HTML5 code. The tool, which is currently in beta, might make it easier to turn some Flash-based

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the standards body for the Web, has declared that it will officially support Efficient XML Interchange (EXI). Essentially, EXI provides a more compact way

Among C++ programmers, a few common myths about struct and class keywords are often repeated, including the following: A struct is a value type, while a class is a reference

RIM says it’s hoping to have plenty of apps for its PlayBook tablet when it is released later this year, but blogger Jamie Murai says the company must really want

What does it take for a mobile app to succeed? UK-based developer Chetan Damani notes that his company is “currently seeing a huge uptake from the apps we launching for

Oracle has announced the release of a new framework and client that it hopes will spur the development of Java-based apps for industrial mobile devices. The Oracle Application Development Framework

Application development tool vendor Black Duck maintains a KnowledgeBase of open source projects that currently lists 9,000 mobile projects. Of those, 3,146 declared a platform. Among those that did declare