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RIM Renames Its App Store

With the launch of BlackBerry 10 just days away, RIM has decided to change the name of its app store. But it isn’t a major change—”BlackBerry App World” will now

Congressman Proposes APPS Act

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

Survey: Nobody Knows What the Cloud Is

A new survey of more than 1,000 consumers conducted by Webfusion revealed a general lack of understanding about cloud computing. While 33.8 percent claimed they clearly understood the term, 28.5

China Blocks GitHub Access

On Monday, the Chinese government began blocking the country’s Internet users from accessing GitHub, a popular code hosting service for developers. Why would the government take such a move? One

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3 Million Developers on GitHub

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

Flex Becomes a Top-Level Apache Project

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

Five Best Practices for Mobile Development

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’