According to a new survey conducted by research and advisory firm Computer Economics, application hosting has replaced application development as the most frequently outsourced IT function. The number of companies

A new survey by the Ponemon Institute reveals a disconnect between the C-suite and IT when it comes to application security. A high percentage of executives believe that their application

Development tool vendor Appcelerator has announced that it is buying Singly, a startup that offers API management technology. Appcelerator says it plans to incorporate Singly’s capabilities within its Appcelerator Platform

Microsoft has announced the availability of a free set of cloud computing tools that it calls “Windows Azure Pack.” Among other things, it allows enterprise developers to create apps for

BlackBerry has been pretty proud of the fact that its BlackBerry World app store for BB10 includes 120,000 apps. Unfortunately, 47,000 of those apps come from one developer—S4BB. Making matters

A new report from Gartner is confirming what many in enterprise IT already guessed—Amazon dominates the cloud computing market. In fact, Amazon’s utilized compute capacity is five times as big

If you’re a developer with experience in Java or ASP, you should have no trouble finding a job, particularly if you’re familiar with Agile software development methodologies. CWJobs.co.uk reports that

Oracle has launched a new tool aimed at helping non-programmers create apps. Called BI Mobile App Designer, the tool offers an intuitive interface designed to allow business professionals to create

TIOBE has released its list of the world’s most popular programming languages for August 2013. Once again, Java took the top spot, just edging out C (which was number one

Speed, security and personalized experiences were the top concerns for end users. The survey of 5,000 consumers found that the starkest differences in mobile usage were between developed and emerging

Google Cloud Storage now automatically encrypts all data before it is written to disk, at no additional charge and the change is seemless—no reconfiguration or changes required for users. All

NGEN, the Native Image Generator has been part of the .NET Framework for several years, creating optimized native images of managed code applications which are then used at runtime. NGEN

The companies will work together to combat financial fraud and advanced security threats and the new lab, that will be in addition to IBM’s existing security labs, will focus on

The cross platform OpenXava is an AJAX Java framework for rapid development, offered via a GNU Lesser General Public License, that gives programmers an opportunity to establish, define, classify, and

Shannon entropy is based on the average probability that a given string of bits will occur in a particular type of digital file. In a general-purpose communications system, that’s the

Microsoft spokesman Brandon LeBlanc announced that “Starting at 12:00 a.m. on October 18 in New Zealand (4:00 a.m. October 17 in Redmond, Wash.), Windows 8.1 will begin rolling out worldwide

Mobile developers will soon be able to send push notifications to prod user behavior through Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon is expected to make notifications cross platform and developers will

Microsoft has developed a big data framework called REEF (Retainable Evaluator Execution Framework) and plans to open source it next month. The framework sits on top of Hadoop’s new YARN

Developers can now join Microsoft’s App Builder Rewards program and earn credits for taking online classes, attending developer conferences, and more, that may be redeemed for games, upgrades and account

In only one year, IBM has moved all the way up the Gartner ladder from the Niche Quadrant to the Leaders Quadrant for mobile app dev platforms due to strong

Google has announced several improvements to its cloud computing platform that enhance the services available to developers. For example, Google Compute Engine now has Layer 3 load balancing, which intelligently