Microsoft has made two announcements related to its Windows Phone mobile development platform. First, it officially acknowledged the new features that will be in Windows Phone update 3. They include
Recruiting firm CyberCoders has published the results of a new study of mobile development salaries. Interestingly, senior Android developers earn significantly more than senior iOS developers—$131,571 per year for Android
Michael Rosenbaum, founder and CEO of Catalyst IT Services, thinks it’s time to start applying the “Moneyball” tactics that have helped some baseball teams find success with undervalued players to
According to research conducted by IDC and Appcelerator, 63 percent of developers have seen demand for their skills rise recently. So what are the skills that enterprises want when hiring
Microsoft is taking an unusual approach to encouraging developers to upgrade apps for Windows 8.1. Usually, companies provide the final code for an operating system upgrade to developers well in
Outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke this week at the Gartner Symposium ITXpo and made some predictions. He said that soon there will be one version of Windows for multiple
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella this week made several announcements related to the company’s Azure cloud computing service. First, Microsoft will discount its prices, in some cases matching the fees charged by
COBOL isn’t exactly the hottest, trendiest programming language around, but it still runs legacy applications in use by thousands of companies. As part of its efforts to interest the next
By now, most enterprise IT types are pretty familiar with the BYOD trend, but there’s a new BYO phenomenon on the horizon — BYOC, short for “bring your own cloud.”