On Thursday, Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) brought the Application Privacy, Protection and Security (APPS) Act 2013 to the floor of the House of Representatives. The bill would require mobile development firms to display their privacy policies, to write data retention policies and to obtain consent from users before giving them
While it’s known primarily as a chip vendor, Intel has acquired a pair of software companies, both of which are focused on API management for mobile development. The first is Aepona, which is based in Belfast, Ireland. It offers tools for tracking mobile device use, location, and other data, and
Coverity has released its 2012 Coverity Scan Open Source Report, which scanned and analyzed the quality of 450 million lines of code. It looked at both open source projects and proprietary code created by Coverity customers’ enterprise application development teams. The company found that the defect rate for open source