Cloud computing vendor WSO2 has announced the availability of “Stratos,” a fully hosted application platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for building and deploying apps and services. The open source cloud service leverages Carbon,

AT&T’s new tiered pricing plan that charges customers for the amount of data they consume has application development pros worried that people will stop downloading bandwidth-intensive apps. Noam Bardin, chief

During the month of May, the PHP community attempted to mop up security flaws in the open-source language. Most of the 60 flaws uncovered would require local server access—in other

In the past, most companies vigorously defended their copyright protections on internally developed software. But new companies like Facebook and Twitter are turning that practice on its head as they

According to new research conducted by vendor Electric Cloud (which sells software testing automation and management products), application developers would rather do their taxes than debug their code. The study

The economic recession and the resulting need to cut costs, the growth in demand for Web 2.0 applications, the advent of the cloud, and the rise in smartphones are all

Recently, Joel Campbell, president of GIS vendor ERDAS, predicted, “Whether it’s from a constellation of small satellites or whether it’s from a blimp or some other type of airborne drone

In this article, Developer.com traces the history of Android from a developer’s perspective. The number of Android devices in use is exploding rapidly, with 100,000 new devices activated per day.

Cloud computing vendor Apprenda is making many of the features of its flagship SaaSGrid application server available in a free version that it’s calling SaaSGrid Express. Aimed at ISVs, SMBs,

Application lifecycle management solution vendor ThoughtWorks has unveiled a new forum where developers and other IT pros can discuss agile development. Called “Agile Transitions,” the site focuses on high-level topics

Time Warner, NBC Universal, and other media companies are telling Steve Jobs that they won’t convert their video libraries from Flash so that they can be viewed on the iPhone

Ping Li of Palo Alto VC firm Accel Partners spends his days looking at up-and-coming companies in the cloud infrastructure space. He says that the advent of the cloud has

Rails founder David Heinemeier Hansson has said that they expect to unveil a release candidate of Ruby on Rails 3.0 by June 7. [login] The latest version of the development

With more than 200,000 apps in Apple’s App Store alone, good software can sometimes get lost in the crowd. However, San Francisco’s AppShow offers developers the opportunity to pitch their

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told attendees at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in Manhattan that his city is clearly superior to Silicon Valley in every way. He advised software developers

Although “Froyo” is a fairly minor upgrade to the Google Android mobile OS, it offers a number of new benefits for developers, particularly for those who create enterprise applications. They

MasterCard has announced the availability of an API for the creation of both desktop and mobile applications. They’ve also launched a new portal dubbed “MasterCard Labs” with a variety of

Large organizations have been using predictive analytics for some time, but those tools tend to be too expensive for smaller enterprises. That all changes with Google’s new Predictive API. The