Microsoft is going after business in the mobile development industry with a new cloud computing offering called Windows Azure Mobile Services. It offers a cloud-based backend for mobile apps, freeing
Smartphones already account for a majority of mobile phone sales in the U.S., and the same will be true worldwide by the end of next year, says market research firm
A new survey from App Central is shedding more light on the state of enterprise mobile development. Among the 200 enterprise workers surveyed, 64 percent said they had access to
China’s iOS and Android markets are growing by more than 400 percent per year. A new report from Flurry compares iOS and Android adoption rates country by country. Currently, the
LinqConnect is an enhanced LINQ to SQL compatible ORM solution with extended functionality, support for SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite, its own visual model designer, seamlessly integrating to
Cloud security is gaining a renewed focus, now that Apple founder Steve Wozniak has issued a stern warning about Cloud security risks. In response, numerous vendors have lined up to
A new study from Mozilla shows some fascinating data. Some of the results mean more than others. For example, according to the study, more app developers are targeting the Web
Log data has long been prevalent across all our applications, but with Hadoop came the ability to process that data. Various systems produce log data, from network devices and operating
While smartphones are becoming standard in the developed world, feature phones, a.k.a. “dumb” phones, still rule in the developing world. But Australian startup biNu wants to make dumb phones more
Often criticized as clunky and slow, Facebook’s iOS app used to be written in HTML5. However, the company has rolled out a new native app written in Objective-C, and it’s
You need to create an instance of a class whose class name you do not know at design/implementation time. You’ll be supplied with the class name during runtime, in other
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Rackspace has announced the release of Cloud Monitoring, a new service with an API that allows developers to monitor the performance of their websites and Web applications. Customers can use
Apigee has upgraded its enterprise-grade API management services, adding a new free tier of access. The Apigee tools are now available for free on a self-service basis for up to
Duty called me away from the final day of the Dataversity NoSQL Now Conference in San Jose this week, but I was there for long enough to gain some insight
Many newer programming languages claim to offer higher productivity than old standbys, but hard data on that productivity can be tough to find. However, a new database of 6,000 projects
A new survey from Evans Data found that 55.4 percent of those actively involved in cloud development projects said that big data was a primary driver in their organization’s decision
In a blog post last weekI discussed how the CAP theorem prevented enterprise databases from taking advantage of the elasticity benefits of the Cloud. The problem: because the Cloud is
There is no reasonable chance of “rehabilitation.” That’s what SCO Group’s bankruptcy trustee claimed on Aug. 6 in a filing seeking to change the company’s status from Chapter 11 (reorganization)
The 2009 “SOA is Dead” meme may have turned out to be a tempest in a teapot, but there’s no question that interest in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) waned in the
Yesterday, in a moment of weakness, I managed to sit through most of a Gartner Webinar on Cloud brokerages (I know, what was I thinking?) We’re researching cloud brokerages for
You may have heard of the CAP theorem: no distributed computing system can offer partition tolerance, basic availability, and immediate consistency all at once. You can have any two of
Rally Software has announced that it will purchase Agile Advantage for an undisclosed sum. Both firms offer agile software development tools, and the two had worked together on several projects.
A new survey by comScore confirms the traditional wisdom that mobile platforms must court developers if they want to appeal to buyers. Tablet purchasers said that app selection and price
If you were to list the top half dozen overhyped, buzzy topics in IT these days, I’m sure Hadoop would make the list. Hadoop is an open source framework for
“Java is a 15 year old language,” says Waratek Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer John Matthew Holt. At the time it was developed, he points out, the computing landscape was
Remember Calvinball? From the Calvin & Hobbes comic strip, the most important rule of Calvinball is that anybody can make up new rules for Calvinball. As a result, it’s never
Writing code is easy. Getting it distributed out to the appropriate end users or servers can be a pain in the you-know-what. This is one of those places where tooling
You don’t need me to tell you that Cloud Computing is all the rage in IT shops around the world. And no wonder–the prospect of lowering costs, pay-as-you-go-pricing, and unlimited
Open source software has probablybeen the biggest driver of complex software solutions in the last decade.Access to a large variety of quality, peer-reviewed software has acceleratedproduct development, reduced product introduction