In addition to rolling out its long-awaited iPad app, Facebook this week extended Facebook Platform for mobile. Users of the social network’s iOS apps or its mobile Web site will
On Tuesday, Google announced that it was changing the name for its Google Storage for Developers to Google Cloud Storage and that it was lowering the prices for the service.
Many enterprises are choosing to build their internal applications on top of an open source stack. But this article suggests that those who choose to do so should keep in
A new report from market research firm Gartner says that platform-as-a-service (PaaS) revenues could reach $707.4 million this year, a jump up from last year’s $512.4 million. Although PaaS is
Motorola has launched version 1.0 of RhoElements, an enterprise mobile app development framework. RhoElements supports the latest HTML5 standards, plus JavaScript and CSS, so that application developers can create cross-platform
Google has filled a hole in its cloud development platform by announcing a new relational database called Google Cloud SQL. Based on the open source MySQL code, Cloud SQL will
Analysts at Berg Insight are predicting that mobile app downloads will grow 56.6 percent between 2010 and 2015, to hit 98 billion in 2015. They also believe app store revenues
On day four of the Oracle OpenWorld conference, CEO Larry Ellison took the wraps off the “Oracle Public Cloud.” Ellison, who had famously derided cloud computing in the past, talked
A new study by the Standish Group finds that 37 percent of software development projects are “successful” — meaning on-time, in-budget and accepted by end users. While that may seem