When Nokia announced that it would begin selling smartphones based on Windows Phone 7, Qt developers who had created apps for Nokia’s Symbian platform wondered what would happen to their
According to a new report from Distimo, 72 percent of all App Store revenue comes from in-app purchases, an increase from 28 percent reported in June of 2010. Incredibly, only
In this article, Eric Spiegel recounts his experience of moving from his position as a software developer to becoming a project manager. One big first challenge was dealing with more
According to an unnamed source, Samsung “is planning to make Bada software an open source platform next year.” Bada is Samsung’s internally developed mobile operating system that the company puts
Adobe has announced that it will release version 11 of its Flash player and version 3 of its Air runtime in early October. Both boast better performance for 3D gaming,
Developers have had their hands on the Mango update to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system for a couple of months, and soon end users will be able to
A new primer on Microsoft’s website offers more details about software distribution for Windows 8. Traditional desktop apps will continue to be distributed all the ways they are today (retail
The University of Maryland has released a new report detailing the impact of the “Facebook App Economy” on the U.S. economy as a whole. According to the report, the Facebook
In a blog post, Microsoft has announced that the “Metro” side of Windows 8 (the touch-based interface that looks like Winodws Phone 7) will not support Adobe Flash or other