On Thursday, HP announced that it would discontinue the production of the TouchPad and other tablets and smartphones based on the webOS operating system. Instead, it “will continue to explore

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced the availability of Community and Business Groups. The Community Groups will allow any developer to propose new Web standards, and the Business

The folks at Dr. Dobb’s have put out their annual list of finalists and winners in the Jolt Awards. These awards are meant to recognize the best books related to

In a bid to attract more small developers, Microsoft is cutting the price for “extra-small compute” on its Azure cloud computing service by 20 percent. In addition, it will get

In honor of the open source operating system’s 20th anniversary, the Linux Foundation has released an infographic highlighting some of the changes to the OS over the years. For example,

Patent-holding firm Lodsys has recently gone on a spree, sending threatening letters and suing many mobile development firms. Now Google appears to be stepping in to help defend its developers.

An IDC study sponsored by Unisys found that 40 percent of the devices used to access business applications are owned by employees. However, 75 percent of businesses don’t have any

In an interview, Chris Weber, Nokia’s top executive for America, said that iOS and Android’s reliance on the app model is “outdated.” Instead, he says that Nokia’s new phones featuring

Most agile development teams work in open office environments, which improve communication, collaboration, and teamwork. However, several new studies suggest that theses layouts may actually be harmful for the developers

Earlier this year, Apple changed its policies to require all iOS apps offering subscription services to share 30 percent of that revenue with Apple. The response has been a revolt.

Photo aggregation service Trove recently ran a survey on Hacker News which polled developers about which APIs were the hardest to integrate into their projects. Facebook ranked worst with 19

In its quest to promote greener computing, the Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI) is turning its focus on application developers. Executive director George Goodman is spearheading an effort to educate

A new Evans Data survey finds that Mac OS X has become more popular as a development environment than Linux. According to the report, 7.9 percent of developers now use

The co-founders of AKF Partners, Marty Abbott and Michael Fisher, have published a new book titled Scalability Rules. It offers advice for managers, architects, developers and operations personnel who face

While many veteran programmers have skills that their younger counterparts will never need, many also say they have experience that could come in handy to today’s developers. Here’s a quick

According to consultant Benjamin Day, Agile development methodologies are changing the job of the software architect. Today’s software architect has to be a combination project manager, forward thinker and business

A new post on the Chromium blog reveals that Google is working on a new API it calls “Web Intents.” Just as Android Intents makes it easy to share data

A recent Microsoft job posting suggests a possible new future for Office: Now is the time to take Office programmability to the next level. We’re a small but strong team

In a recent IDC survey sponsored by Appcelerator, half of mobile developers said that most of their earnings come from app downloads. That’s a 9 percent decrease from the survey

As developers and managers continue to debate the best way to implement Scrum application development techniques, these tools help teams do Scrum “your way.” Acunote — This SaaS tool “doesn’t

IDC has released a new study, sponsored by Appcelerator, which finds that 25 percent of mobile development pros surveyed believe Google+ is the new trend that will have the most

Google has announced that it is conducting a series of Android Developer Labs (ADLs) to help developers convert their Android smartphone apps so that they will work on Honeycomb-based tablets.

Apple has sued Amazon over the use of the term “app store” in several countries. In the U.S. the courts’ initial decisions have largely favored Amazon, but that doesn’t appear

According to analyst Josh Martin of Strategy Analytics, if you want to make money from a mobile app, free is the way to go. Because it’s so difficult to break

One of the big draws of Amazon’s Appstore for Android is the “Free App of the Day.” Because Amazon’s developer agreement promises to pay developers 20 percent of their asking