Companies that rely on cloud computing services provided by Amazon and Heroku received a very unwelcome present on Christmas Eve. Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) infrastructure as a service and
With iOS 6, Apple introduced a new app called Passbook. The feature collects coupons, tickets, boarding passes, electronic gift cards and similar items and then sends the iOS user reminders
Amazon Web Services has announced that it is adding a new instance to its Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) services. It now offers an instance that includes 35 EC2 Compute Units
According to a new report from mobile analytics provider Distimo, Google Play sales are rising quickly, but Apple’s App Store is still number one. In the last four months, Google
In this article, Datamation’s Eric Spiegel recounts a time when he had a Scrooge for a boss. The manager first approved holiday vacation time, then forced the entire development team
Platform as a service (PaaS) vendor AppFog is cutting the price for its lowest-tier paid cloud computing offering by 50 percent. The company still offers a free service with 2GB
According to a new report from market research firm IDC, the application development and deployment (AD&D) software market will likely generate $80.6 billion in revenue this year. That’s a 3.7
As part of the cloud computing demonstrations it held during Dell World 2012, Dell showed off a new platform as a service (PaaS) it calls Project Fast Paas. Part of
When Apple first released iOS 6, the update lacked a noteworthy feature from iOS 5: the ability to give apps as gifts. Now, just in time for the holidays, Apple