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Survey: Users Prefer Native Apps over HTML5

A new survey from Bite Interactive found that a majority of smartphone users prefer native mobile applications to HTML5 apps. More specifically, 66 percent of iPhone users and 63 percent

Elastic Beanstalk Gets Node.js Support

Amazon Web Services has announced that its Elastic Beanstalk cloud development platform now supports Node.js. According to the company, the change will allow developers who use Node.js to focus on

Facebook to Hold Mobile Development Conferences

Facebook has announced that this spring it plans to hold three developer events called “Mobile DevCon 2013” that will focus on mobile development. The first event will take place in

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