According to a new report from Flurry, engagement with mobile apps drops off precipitously after the first month of use. Among users who download a new app, only 38 percent
Traditionally, business software is purchased by executives and managers, not the people who will actually use it. That arrangement has led to many dissatisfied users who complain about poor interfaces.
At this week’s Ubuntu Developer Conference, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth will announce plans to put the open source operating system on smartphones and tablets. “Everyday computer users are starting to
Oracle has released a new report titled “Opportunity Calling: The Future of Mobile Communications,” which includes the results of a worldwide survey of 3,000 mobile device users. In the survey,
Gild, a career website for developers and engineers, has announced that it now has half a million members from more than 174 countries. The site, which launched last year, takes
Black Duck Technology is rolling out Code Sight 2.0, an update to its flagship code search product. The new release offers better performance (up to six times faster than its
OpenLogic has announced a new, extremely flexible platform as a service offering called CloudSwing. The company says it hopes to give developers the same flexibility as an infrastructure as a
Not only did Nokia show off its first Windows Phone 7-based handsets this week, it also announced that it will be giving away 25,000 of those handsets to developers. Starting
Oracle has officially unveiled its NoSQL database, making downloads available from its website. “It’s a distributed key/value store with built-in high availability, and it also offers users options as to