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
Among the information that Microsoft deluged on developers at the BUILD conference are some details about its Roslyn project. Rosyln is an attempt to re-architect the C# and VB compilers
After debuting the iPhone 4S yesterday, Apple also seeded the iOS 5 Gold Master to developers. Unlike earlier versions of the update, this one is not available as an over-the-air
On the first day of its JavaOne conference, Oracle gave the attendees a preview of its plans for versions 8 and 9 of Java. Java 8, due for release in
At the Surge conference in Baltimore, developers complained about Amazon’s cloud computing services, but agreed that they are still better than the alternative. Andy Parsons, CTO for startup Bookish, complained