Microsoft is going after business in the mobile development industry with a new cloud computing offering called Windows Azure Mobile Services. It offers a cloud-based backend for mobile apps, freeing
A new survey from App Central is shedding more light on the state of enterprise mobile development. Among the 200 enterprise workers surveyed, 64 percent said they had access to
China’s iOS and Android markets are growing by more than 400 percent per year. A new report from Flurry compares iOS and Android adoption rates country by country. Currently, the
Often criticized as clunky and slow, Facebook’s iOS app used to be written in HTML5. However, the company has rolled out a new native app written in Objective-C, and it’s
While smartphones are becoming standard in the developed world, feature phones, a.k.a. “dumb” phones, still rule in the developing world. But Australian startup biNu wants to make dumb phones more
Rackspace has announced the release of Cloud Monitoring, a new service with an API that allows developers to monitor the performance of their websites and Web applications. Customers can use
Apigee has upgraded its enterprise-grade API management services, adding a new free tier of access. The Apigee tools are now available for free on a self-service basis for up to
A new survey from Evans Data found that 55.4 percent of those actively involved in cloud development projects said that big data was a primary driver in their organization’s decision
Many newer programming languages claim to offer higher productivity than old standbys, but hard data on that productivity can be tough to find. However, a new database of 6,000 projects