The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched a new program to create applications that can coordinate intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) programs. Many of these applications rely on
Google has unveiled some more statistics about the success of the Android mobile operating system. According to the company, the Android Market passed the 10 billion download mark over the
An analysis of 745 applications by Cast Software finds that Java apps have the most violations of standard development practices per line of code. When application developers are rushed to
At the GigaOM Net:Work conference, Podio CEO Tommy Ahlers said that enterprise application development pros shouldn’t try to build too many features into their apps. Instead, he said devs should
According to code-testing vendor Veracode, the company finds security vulnerabilities in 84 percent of desktop and Web applications when they are submitted for testing the first time. Two-thirds of those
While hard statistics can be hard to find, several developers say that their sales and downloads through the Amazon Appstore have skyrocketed after the release of Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet.
A federal court in New Mexico has issued a temporary restraining order that prevents RIM from using the trademark “BBX,” the name the company had been using for the next
With demand for skilled programmers on the rise, many organizations are offering new training programs that teach application development skills. Recently, several of those organizations have attracted funding from investors.
Following weeks of speculation about whether HP would sell the WebOS platform it acquired with the purchase of Palm, company CEO Meg Whitman has announced that WebOS will become open