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March 13, 2012

Microsoft’s BizSpark Program Attracts Startups

Anecdotally, developers at young software firms say that Microsoft’s efforts to woo them are winning them over to Azure. Recently, an Amazon representative offered Jun Kim, the young co-founder of

Study: iOS Beats Android for HTML5 Performance

Mobile development tool vendor Spaceport.io has released the results of benchmark testing that compared the performance of various mobile devices when handling HTML5. The test measured how many images the

U.S. Market for Virtual Goods Tops $2.3 Billion

According to Visa-owned PlaySpan, Americans spent $2.3 billion on virtual goods in 2011. That’s roughly double the amount spent on virtual goods in 2009. Those who purchase virtual goods are

Agile ALM and the Tools to Practice It

As the software development industry matures, it is devising methods for ushering products from inception to completion, a process that has come to be known by the buzzword ALM (Application

VMware Brings Hadoop Integration to Spring

VMware has announced the release of Spring Hadoop, a new application development tool that integrates Hadoop into the Spring Framework. “Spring Hadoop was created to make it more straightforward for

Nokia Pins Its Hopes on App Developers

In a keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop explained that the company plans to make it easier for developers and operators to make