In an interview, Keith Lorizio, Microsoft’s vice president for U.S. sales and marketing, laid out some of the company’s goals for Windows 8. He said Microsoft hopes to have 400
Microsoft has announced its acquisition of PhoneFactor, a company that specializes in providing security, including two-factor authentication, for enterprise mobile apps. “The acquisition of PhoneFactor will help Microsoft bring effective
Platform as a service (PaaS) vendor CloudBees is adding a couple of new features that it hopes will help it attract more developers. This first, ClickStarts, is a “single-click tool
A new report from AppAnnie holds good news for Android developers. Revenue for Google Play apps has increase 137 percent since January. While iOS developers still tend to earn more
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is beginning its efforts to update the HTTP standard. “It’s official: We’re working on HTTP/2.0,” tweeted IETF Hypertext Transfer Protocol working group chair Mark
At the JavaOne 2012 event, Oracle’s Hasan Rizvi detailed some of the company’s upcoming plans for the Java platform. Those plans include support for Sumatra, a new project aimed at
At a conference in London, Canalyst senior analyst Tim Shepherd discussed what he called the “appification” of enterprise software. “Enterprise app stores are really starting to come through, and is
A Hong Kong-based site called ForumsWindows8.com recently polled its readers about their favorite operating system. Interestingly, 53 percent of the site’s visitors, all of them presumably Windows 8 users, said
The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced that it plans to finish the HTML5 spec by 2014 and the HTML 5.1 spec by 2016. That plan allows the committee to