At its Dreamforce conference, Salesforce.com made a slew of announcements, including unveiling new tools for building mobile apps for the Salesforce platform. Called “Salesforce Touch,” the mobile development tools will
Included in Adobe’s most recent quarterly report was some good news for the software development industry: The company reported “overachievement” of its goals for transitioning from traditional software sales to
The Register recently talked with Microsoft corporate vice president Soma Somasegar on the company’s plans for supporting development platforms. When asked about all the recent changes, Somasegar admitted, “We’ve had
Salesforce.com has updated its Heroku platform as a service with improved up support for Java. The company is now offering an Enterprise Java service that bundles together everything you need
A new Coverity survey of 240 software developers revealed that 51 percent had experienced at least one security incident related to Web applications in the past 18 months. Two companies
MasterCard has announced the availability of a new software development kit (SDK) for its PayPass near field communication (NFC) technology. It will allow mobile development firms and network operators to
Google has released a pair of new development tools. The first and most noteworthy is a new Java-to-Objective-C translation tool that will make it possible to write iOS apps in
Android developers working on Kindle apps have a new tool at their disposal. Amazon has added a Maps API to its SDK. The company hasn’t provided many details, but the
Researchers at Frost & Sullivan say that platform as a service (PaaS) will be the next big area of competition for cloud computing providers. That could lead to rapid changes