October was a particularly good month for startups related to the mobile development industry. Several well-known venture capital firms made significant investments in firms that offer development, testing and analytics
CodeGuru has published a new infographic from Typemock that analyzes the impact of software bugs on the U.S. economy. It claims bugs cost the economy $60 billion per year–the equivalent
After numerous delays, RIM has finally settled on a date for the official launch of its new BlackBerry 10 mobile operating system: January 30. However, the company has not said
A new Vancouver, BC-based startup called NodeFly wants to make it easier to monitor the performance of Web applications built with Node.js. Company CEO Glen Lougheed says that while there
Mobile development tool vendor Appcelerator has announced that it will acquire a startup called Nodeable for an undisclosed sum. Nodeable offers Hadoop-based technology to provide real-time insight about how people
Just a few months ago, it seemed that every company even remotely related to the mobile development industry wanted to open its own app store, but now one company has
Apple may have created the market for apps, but Google’s Android now dominates. According to a new report from ABI Research, the iPhone accounted for 29 percent of all app
Australia’s Commonwealth Consumer Affairs Advisory Council (CCAAC) is launching an investigation into whether mobile development firms are abiding by its laws. The council’s assistant treasurer David Bradbury asked consumers to
The Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) has put out an urgent call to software developers, software engineers and others who use APIs, asking them to submit stories that explain why APIs