Google has announced some changes to its App Engine which should provide Web application developers better availability and performance. The App Engine used to utilize a Master/Slave Datastore, which was
In a new forecast, market research firm Forrester predicts boom times for the enterprise software development market. The company says that U.S. IT spending will climb 7.1 percent this year,
Six years after the service first went live, Amazon’s S3 is approaching 1 trillion objects in storage. In the most recent quarter, the cloud computing service added 143 billion objects,
As part of its efforts to encourage developers to embrace the mobile Web, Facebook has released its Ringmark testing suite under an open source license. The tool allows developers to
Working as a developer can be a very rewarding career; however, like all professions it also has some drawbacks. If you’re a developer here are some hard truths that InfoWorld
A new report from Gartner says that the software as a service (SaaS) market will grow 17.9 percent in 2012, with total spending topping $14.5 billion. By 2014, customers will
A new report from research2guidance finds 59 full-catalog app stores have opened since 2000, with 49 of them considered viable today. According to the firm, that’s the “saturation point,” and
Microsoft has released a preview of improvements to its Visual Studio IDE and its Team Foundation Service platform that will make it possible (and easy) to create apps for SharePoint
Mobile analytics firm Flurry has released a new report which suggests that the Amazon Appstore is nearly as lucrative for mobile developers as Apple’s App Store. The study compared apps