Speaking at the All About Mobile conference, RIM’s Rana Puri offered several tips to smartphone app developers. Cautioning of the dangers posed by fragmentation, Puri warned, “You need to know
Sencha has unveiled version 1.0 of its cross-platform Web application tool, Sencha Touch. At the same time, it dropped the price for a commercial license from $99 to $0. By
Every year, agile software vendor VersionOne releases a “State of Agile Survey.” This year’s results showed a marked increase in the level of experience with the development methodology, particularly when
Analysts and other experts say that developers are beginning to use cloud-based technologies in three key ways. First, teams are using public cloud services like Amazon EC2 for testing purposes.
Online job board oDesk regularly publishes an Online Employment Report which lists the most in-demand skills based on data from site job postings. The latest version shows a 710 percent
Harris Interactive has released a new poll which reveals that 38 percent of mobile app users are unhappy with “most” of the apps they’ve tried. That could be bad news
Recent Apple announcements related to Java had some Mac developers wondering if future versions of OS X would support Java. Now Apple has answered that question by announcing its support
In this article, open source heavyweight Bruce Perens explains the complications resulting from a lawsuit between Red Hat and Acacia. Acacia had sued Red Hat for violating a patent on
When Ram Arumugam answered his phone at a noisy kids soccer arena, a voice said, “Ram, this is Steve.” It was Apple CEO Steve Jobs calling to discuss an e-mail