According to recently published research, Americans pay about $1.09 per mobile app, while people in other parts of the world pay less than 20 cents. As a result, Americans account
It used to be that apps went live on the App Store whenever they were approved by Apple—and it was anyone’s guess when that might be. Now, not only has
TechNewsWorld says that developers are in fact making money building apps for smartphones, and they’re doing it in several ways: Selling apps directly to consumers Licensing apps to resellers or
At the Mix10 conference, Microsoft unveiled a preview of Internet Explorer 9. The most notable change to the browser is greater support for HTML5, which could make it easier to
Getjar, the world’s second largest mobile app store, has just published a study that predicts that mobile application sales will grow to $17.5 billion within two years. During the same
Last June, IBM began offering private cloud services for application development and testing, and now it will begin offering a public cloud option as well. Having a cloud-based infrastructure available
At its Mix 10 conference, Microsoft released free versions Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 4 multimedia toolkit, both equipped with an emulator for the Windows Phone 7 OS. In
Forrester Research analyst Mike Gualtieri worries that developers are not adequately accounting for third-party services and APIs in their threat modeling of Web applications. “Developers are not adjusting,” he said.
Research suggests that at April’s F8 conference for Facebook developers, the company may make more user data available to third party developers. ReadWriteWeb notes, “A firehose of public Facebook user