David Cao, an organizer of the Silicon Valley Android Developers group, says “The group is very, very unhappy” with Oracle’s lawsuit against Google. Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth adds, “Oracle has significantly
This week, the Bing search engine will begin powering some Yahoo searches, and the company is finally revealing what that deal will mean for Yahoo’s developer tools. Here’s a quick
Android developers can only sell their apps to users in Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States. That may
Google developer advocates Mark DeLoura and Michael Mahemoff have given a presentation in Europe in which they revealed that the company is likely to unveil a Web store for the
If Dictionary.com’s experience is any judge, iAd has been good for iPhone app developers. The company says its effective cost per thousand impressions (eCPM) for ads served within the mobile
Recently, many more companies have begun offering prizes for developers that overcome particularly tricky software challenges. They do this for a variety of reasons: to raise awareness of the company
In the beginning, Microsoft’s cloud computing project was called “Red Dog” and had a team of 150 people. Now the renamed Windows Azure team is 1,200 strong and growing. The
According to former IronRuby developer, Jimmy Schementi, Microsoft now has just one half-time programmer working on IronRuby. Schementi himself quit after his manager asked him “What else would you want
Microsoft’s Amitabh Srivastava says Azure surpasses other cloud platforms because it has targeted developers from the very beginning. “We support any language and multiple frameworks. We provide a rich ecosystem