As part of the cloud computing demonstrations it held during Dell World 2012, Dell showed off a new platform as a service (PaaS) it calls Project Fast Paas. Part of
Which was the top grossing iOS app of 2012? According to Apple it was Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North. The company has posted its annual rundown of the
When Apple first released iOS 6, the update lacked a noteworthy feature from iOS 5: the ability to give apps as gifts. Now, just in time for the holidays, Apple
Encryption is our primary tool for providing data confidentiality, an essential requirement for many Cloud Computing applications. However, as I discussed in the previous blog post, encryption is not a
This is a simple captcha control. It just creates a random number and shows it as image. You can play around to rotate it, give more effects to make it
According to a new Edge Strategies survey sponsored by LogMeIn, the popularity of BYOD (bring your own device) policies has spawned a new trend–BYOA, or bring your own apps. Among
Can you use SSL to secure interactions with the Cloud? The answer: in part. Remember, the original intent for SSL (Secure Sockets Layer, now known as Transport Layer Security, or
Four-year-old Jibe Mobile has announced that it has raised $8.5 million in venture capital from Vodafone Ventures, MTI and other investors. In the past, the firm provided a mobile app
As part of its predictions for 2013, research firm Gartner said that mobile apps will become increasingly important. According to the company, apps will become the primary way for consumers
London ??? 12 December 2012 – Leading Java experts unveil their first groundbreaking analysis tool to assist developers with Java issues entitled jClarity Censum.Founded in 2012, jClarity is a London-based
Intel has released a beta version of new tool for building big data applications. Called GraphBuilder, the open source tool will “help data scientists in industry and academia to rapidly
The table was not copypasted well. I can send you the text as an attachment to an reply email.Backslashes in C# and C++CLI are widely used in Windows file paths
Making good on her promise to crack down on mobile apps without privacy policies, California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris has filed a civil lawsuit against Delta Airlines. The state
On December 6, Amazon announced, “App downloads in the Appstore have grown more than 500 percent over the previous year.” Presumably, most of those downloads have come from Amazon’s Kindle
A new report from Flurry states that during 2012, the amount of time the average American spent with mobile apps increased from 94 minutes per day to 127 minutes, or
Sometimes when I think about Agile software development and the alternative Waterfall method I am reminded of the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups commercials when the product was first introduced. Each
In the dark ages of distributed computing, all we had were fixed application programming interfaces (APIs). Want to call a function or procedure on a server? Read the documentation for
Amazon Web Services has released a preview version of a new software development kit (SDK) that will allow developers to access Amazon’s cloud computing services from their Node.js applications. The
EMC and VMware are spinning off a new company called Pivotal Initiative that will focus on cloud development products from both firms. Those products include VMware’s vFabric cloud computing software,
A new survey by Simon-Kucher & Partners analyzed payment models for the mobile development industry. They found that approximately 40 percent of apps utilize paid downloads and a third use
Semil Shah from Javelin Venture Partners recently compiled some input from developers who have been contacted by recruiters. Here’s what developers say recruiters are doing wrong in the current war
A new report from researchers at Canalys confirms what many had suspected: a few leading mobile development firms account for the majority of app downloads and revenue. In fact, Canalys
As app stores continue to grow, it gets tougher and tougher for developers to attract attention for their apps. As a result, some are beginning to market their apps even
According to tracking data from App Annie, Google Play app revenue climbed 17.9 percent between September and October, while Apple App Store revenues shrink 0.7 percent. Compared to 2011, Google
On Monday, Google announced a 20 percent price cut for its cloud-based storage services. On Wednesday, Amazon announced a 25 percent price drop for its S3 cloud storage. In response,
In The Code Reuse Paradox , I illustrated some problems with writing reusable code: developers must know which code to generalize, how far to generalize it, and how to tell
A new report from ABI Research forecasts that mobile apps will top $30 billion in revenue by the end of the year. That total includes in-app purchases, advertising and subscriptions,
A new report from Gartner finds that enterprises continue to embrace cloud computing enthusiastically, in many cases replacing legacy apps with software as a service (SaaS) versions. According to the
Red Hat is officially opening its cloud development platform to enterprises. The company announced the launch of OpenShift Enterprise, a supported version of the company’s open source platform as a
A new report from mobile analytics vendor Flurry forecasts that China will have more iOS and Android devices than the U.S. by the first quarter of 2013. Currently, the U.S.