At its annual Dreamforce event, CRM heavyweight Salesforce.com made two announcements related to mobile development. First, the company is jumping on the HTML5 bandwagon and plans to offer touchscreen-based versions
Vendor FuseSource Corp., which sells solutions and services based on Apache projects, has released the results of a new survey. It found that 80 percent of enterprises surveyed had replaced
Usually, the testing phase of application development begins after the piece of software is “finished.” However, a new approach known as acceptance-test-driven development (ATDD) is flipping that model upside down.
Most U.S. mobile carriers are moving to tiered data pricing plans, charging fees for excessive data use and/or throttling customers who consume the most bandwidth. In the face of this
According to the Business Software Alliance, Chinese software piracy costs American application development firms $7.7 billion per year. However, V.i. Labs says that it can help those firms recover 10
According to Diffbot co-founder Mike Tung, “The entire Internet can be broken down into 30 different page types.” The Diffbot tool uses bots, algorithms, computer vision and artificial intelligence to
Energy management company, Tendril, is launching the Tendril Connect Platform Application Developer Program. This new program will allow third-party developers to create apps that utilize Tendril’s smart grid technology. “Developing
Heroku began as a platform-as-a-service offering for Ruby developers, but has since branched out into Node.js and Clojure. Now the service is making a play for the estimated six million
Just when you thought every technology company in existence had opened an app store, now Skype is launching one too. The Internet telephony service currently has about 25 listings in