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GitHub Reports Outages

Over the weekend, many enterprises and open source projects were temporarily unable to access their code when code-sharing site GitHub experienced downtime. Both Saturday and Sunday, the service reported “major

Boston Introduces AaaS–ARM as a Service

Boston (the hardware vendor, not the city) wants to make it easier for enterprises to use its microservers, which run on ARM-based chips instead of x86 processors. To that end,

Amazon Drops Prices on NoSQL DynamoDB

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has recently announced price cuts on many of its cloud computing services, and now it’s continuing the trend by slashing charges for its DynamoDB NoSQL database

12 Tips for Preparing Your Apps for the Cloud

If current trends continue, many enterprise applications will one day be moving to cloud computing environments, even if they aren’t in the cloud already. InfoWorld’s Andrew C. Oliver offers twelve

App Developers Earn $90K, Work 40 Hours

A new infographic from Wix indicates that the app economy has made life better for developers. Although developers have traditionally worked long hours, Wix says app makers work an average

Flurry Report Highlights Mobile Fragmentation Woes

Mobile fragmentation isn’t a new topic, but a new report from Flurry demonstrates how pervasive the problem has become within the mobile development industry. According to the firm, developers who

Visual Studio Gets New Office App Tools

Microsoft has released Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012, a new collection of tools designed to simplify the process of creating applications for Office 2013, Office 365 and SharePoint