Unnamed sources tell DigiTimes that Intel will no longer be developing its MeeGo mobile operating system — at least temporarily. The chipset-maker failed to interest smartphone and tablet manufacturers in
From the ‘Can’t We All Just Get Along?‘ files: Perhaps the biggest legal challenge with Java today is the dispute between Oracle and Google. It’s a dispute that kept Google
Aging VB6 applications are a time bomb. Not only are the hardware, operating systems and runtime environments that they run on all candidates for replacement, but Microsoft will almost certainly
The following Java code does the following: Filters files for an array of extensions. Splits file names. Tests the resulting array package FileHandling;import java.io.File;import java.io.FilenameFilter;/** * filters files for an
It’s that time of year when the Java world begins to focus on JavaOne. This is a big year for Java for a lot of reasons that I’ll be blogging
This table provides a quick reference for what types of managed classes can inject what object in Java EE 5. Â Objects Managed Classes Stateful Stateless Message-driven Bean (MDB) Interceptors
These days, every single well-known company involved in the mobile industry is embroiled in at least one patent lawsuit. Regardless of who wins the cases, Ed Hansberry writes that developers
A new report from Flurry states that the average smartphone owner spends more time every day with mobile apps than the average Internet user spends online. In fact, the average
At the VMworld conference, VMware took the wraps off vFabric Data Director, a new database-as-a-service offering. The new tool is designed to help enterprises manage the growing number of databases
At its annual Dreamforce event, CRM heavyweight Salesforce.com made two announcements related to mobile development. First, the company is jumping on the HTML5 bandwagon and plans to offer touchscreen-based versions
Vendor FuseSource Corp., which sells solutions and services based on Apache projects, has released the results of a new survey. It found that 80 percent of enterprises surveyed had replaced
Usually, the testing phase of application development begins after the piece of software is “finished.” However, a new approach known as acceptance-test-driven development (ATDD) is flipping that model upside down.
Most U.S. mobile carriers are moving to tiered data pricing plans, charging fees for excessive data use and/or throttling customers who consume the most bandwidth. In the face of this
According to the Business Software Alliance, Chinese software piracy costs American application development firms $7.7 billion per year. However, V.i. Labs says that it can help those firms recover 10
According to Diffbot co-founder Mike Tung, “The entire Internet can be broken down into 30 different page types.” The Diffbot tool uses bots, algorithms, computer vision and artificial intelligence to
Energy management company, Tendril, is launching the Tendril Connect Platform Application Developer Program. This new program will allow third-party developers to create apps that utilize Tendril’s smart grid technology. “Developing
When seeking buy-in for adopting Agile software development as a standard, offering alternatives can be useful. Agile alternatives allow enterprises to sample some of the benefits of Agile without making
Heroku began as a platform-as-a-service offering for Ruby developers, but has since branched out into Node.js and Clojure. Now the service is making a play for the estimated six million
Just when you thought every technology company in existence had opened an app store, now Skype is launching one too. The Internet telephony service currently has about 25 listings in
As you probably know, an important solution offered by EJB containers is the ability to manage concurrent requests and satisfy multiple clients while avoiding unpleasant issues. When the number of
In the Windows Phone Developer Blog, Microsoft recently revealed that it now has about 30,000 apps for Windows Phone 7. It took eight months for the platform to reach this
VMware has announced the availability of Micro Cloud Foundry, a condensed virtual image for its open source platform-as-a-service (PaaS). Micro Cloud Foundry makes it possible for developers to utilize the
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is rolling out a new feature that could help it appeal to its core audience — developers. “ElastiCache” aims to simplify some of the caching hassles
Until now, the primary method for Android developers to get support was to post something on the Android Marketplace forums and hope that one of their peers could offer a
After HP announced its decision to stop manufacturing smartphones and tablets for the webOS platform, Microsoft made an offer to the developers disenfranchised by the decision. Windows Phone exec Brandon
Chinese developers have typically faced a lot of challenges in targeting the U.S. software market, but Apple’s App Store is changing that. According to App Annie, more than 100 Chinese
A new Nielsen report finds that Android users spend 56 minutes per day interacting with apps and the mobile Web. However, most of the time they spend with apps is
As mobile apps continue to grow in popularity, more non-programmers are becoming interested in creating apps of their own. To make it easier on these folks, several Web sites are
In recent blog posts, Microsoft has begun revealing small bits of information about the next update for Windows, Windows 8. One recent post listed all the teams working on the
If you just want to set up a simple Facebook login button for your site, it is extremely straight forward and takes about five minutes. But simply having a Facebook