In order to compete with rivals Amazon and Apple, Google is launching a new book, music, movie and app store called “Google Play.” Play will bring together Google Music, Google
On Saturday, Apple’s App Store reached a major milestone: 25 billion app downloads. To commemorate the event, the company gave a $10,000 iTunes gift card to Chunli Fu, of Qingdao,
Following up on the news that the iPhone and Android smartphones allow app developers to access photos and personal information without users’ permission, Sen. Charles Shumer (D-N.Y.) has sent a
Google has increased the maximum file size limit on apps in the Android Market. While Google used to restrict developers to 50MB, it will now accept apps with up to
The South by Southwest (SXSW) conference is going on this week in Austin, Texas, and as in years past, many developers are introducing their new wares at the interactive arm
Anecdotally, developers at young software firms say that Microsoft’s efforts to woo them are winning them over to Azure. Recently, an Amazon representative offered Jun Kim, the young co-founder of
Mobile development tool vendor Spaceport.io has released the results of benchmark testing that compared the performance of various mobile devices when handling HTML5. The test measured how many images the
Development tool and services vendor Gorrilla Logic has announced the availability of MonkeyTalk, a new open source mobile testing platform. MonkeyTalk combines two other Gorrilla Logic products: FlexMonkey for testing
Compuware has published the results of a survey of more than 500 CIOs regarding their mainframe development staff. A majority, 56 percent, said that because mainframe teams are struggling to