Apple has reportedly purchased Particle, a San Francisco-based Web app development firm, for an undisclosed sum. Several of the company’s employees stayed on to work for Apple as “creative technologists”
At the Tech Ed event in Las Vegas, SAP revealed its plans to create a cloud development platform that will rely on its HANA in-memory database. So far, only one
At the Australian Information Security Association’s National Conference 2012, Oracle Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson said many enterprise application development pros don’t pay enough attention to securing their apps.
During this week’s OpenStack Summit in San Diego, several vendors plan to unveil new or expanded cloud offerings based on the open source OpenStack cloud computing platform. For example, Cloudscaling
In its Developer blog, RIM announced that it began accepting BlackBerry 10 apps on October 10. In order to entice would-be BlackBerry developers, it promises that apps submitted now will
With help from Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Nokia, Adobe, HP, Opera Software and the Mozilla Foundation, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has launched a new website devoted to compiling
The latest update for Firefox doesn’t include a lot that’s new for end users, but it does offer some significant new improvements for developers. For starters, Firefox 16 supports more
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