From a consumer perspective, apps are “mobile” when they can be used on portable devices, like smartphones. From an IT perspective, apps are “mobile” when they can be easily moved
Recent Gartner research suggests that the trend toward software as a service (SaaS) may be drawing to an end. Between 2008 and 2009, the percentage of their budgets that enterprises
While the software configuration management (SCM) space isn’t known for lots of excitement, it has been undergoing a quiet revolution. For starters, developers and organizations have embracing open source options
App developers who write for the Android mobile operating system have had a lot to complain about lately. Google’s Android Market has experienced a number of problems, including disappearing apps,
Yet another site has weighed in on the Flash vs. HTML5 debate. YouTube says it’s sticking with Flash. “While HTML5’s video support enables us to bring most of the content
Yesterday at Yahoo’s annual Hadoop developer conference, the company unveiled a new beta of the open source distributed file system. The new release incorporates two other open-source tools: the Kerberos
Earlier this week, someone leaked a Microsoft partner slide show detailing the plan for the next iteration of the company’s operating system — Windows 8. From an application development perspective,
For the first time since 2006, the Apache Software Foundation has released a major update to the popular Tomcat open source Java Web server. “Developers can rely on Tomcat 7
Rhomobile has taken the wraps off Rhodes 2, an updated version of its smartphone app development framework. Aimed primarily at enterprise applications, Rhodes 2 will make it easier for ERP