U.S. Representative Hank Johnson (D, GA) has proposed a new piece of legislation called The Application Privacy, Protection, and Security (APPS) Act of 2013. The bill would require app developers
A new report from market research firm Gartner predicts that worldwide revenue for mobile advertising will total $11.4 this year, up from $9.6 billion in 2012. By 2016, the industry
In a bizarre twist, an American developer has gotten fired for outsourcing his own job to China. According to a Verizon Business Security Blog, “Bob,” a programmer at an American
The GitHub coding platform has released some new statistics about its service. More than 3 million developers now use GitHub, up from 1 million in September 2011. In addition, it
Computerworld editor-in-chief Scot Finnie has come out with a new article touting best practices for enterprise developers who are working on mobile apps. He encourages organizations to learn from others’
The Apache Foundation has announced that Apache Flex is no longer an incubator project and has become a top-level project (TLP). Flex is an application framework for Web and mobile
A new survey of 400 developers from Evans Data finds that on the average, cloud development reduces the time it takes to complete an application by 11.6 percent. “The bottom
Microsoft appears to be making a new push to convince mobile developers to use its Azure cloud computing service. In a new blog post, the company’s Nick Harris reviews the
The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), an EU advisory body, this week warned that some of the most innovative areas of technology also represented the greatest security risks.