Counterpoint technology has released a new research report that sums up the state of the U.S. smartphone market in the first quarter of 2014. Key takeaways include the following: Smartphones

Enterprise software vendor SAP has announced the release of its Mobile Platform 3.0, which unifies the company’s mobile development tools with a single software development kit (SDK). Based on a

eWeek recently conducted an interview with Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive for Software & Systems at IBM, and they discussed cloud computing, IBM’s BlueMix PaaS and other

Gogo, the service that most major U.S. airlines use to power their in-flight wi-fi, has announced a new API that will help developers create apps to be used during air

During his keynote address at the OpenStack Summit, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth made a surprise product announcement. He took the wraps off a new cloud-in-a-box offering that the company calls

SAP and Microsoft have signed an agreement that has the two enterprise software powerhouses working together in three key ways: SAP applications will be certified to run on Microsoft’s Azure

According to a new Gartner report, 2013 was a very good year for application infrastructure and middleware software vendors, with worldwide revenues increasing 5.6 percent. IBM was the number one

Observations at the Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit, show that Cloud providers are having to work harder than ever to engage customers and ensure a positive experience for their

SAP has announced that it will be conducting layoffs across all of its divisions as a result of its move toward delivering more products on a software as a service

At TechEd 2014, Microsoft made a couple of big announcements related to its Visual Studio integrated development environment. First, a preview version of Visual Studio now supports Apache Cordova, an

Salesforce is tying together its two cloud development platforms: Heroku, which is targeted at startups and mobile development shops, and Force.com, which is more for enterprise application development teams. Both

Enterprise application development teams are increasingly turning to gamification to increase end user engagement. In fact, researchers at Gartner say 40 percent of Fortune 1000 companies will use gamification as

IDC has published the results of a new survey which asked U.S. enterprises with more than 1,000 employees to rank cloud computing vendors based on their quality of service. IBM

ReadWrite has published an interview with Eric Bowman, the vice president of architecture for Gilt.com, an e-commerce site that specializes in flash sales. Because the site experiences huge spikes in

PHP tool vendor Zend has announced the release of Apigility 1.0. The open source tool helps companies create their own APIs by encouraging certain development practices. “We took the opinionated

HP has announced plans to invest $1 billion over two years into research and development related to the OpenStack cloud computing platform. It’s calling this new effort “Helion,” and it

At EMC World, the EMC announced a new Hybrid Cloud package. It aims to makes it easier for enterprises to set up a private cloud computing environment and also use

Enterprises have rushed to embrace devops, a philosophy that promises to break down barriers between development and operations, promote collaboration and improve quality. But something of a backlash against devops

Microsoft has announced that it purchased GreenButton, a New Zealand-based company that specializes in cloud-based high performance computing. Microsoft previously made a $1 million investment in the smaller firm. GreenButton’s