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
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
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
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
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’
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