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
According to Michael Scherotter, Microsoft media experience evangelist, the company plans to unveil a new Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework beta at its Mix10 conference in Las Vegas. “[The idea] is
Tim Bray, co-inventor of XML and former Sun employee, now works for Google as a “Developer Advocate” for Android. In a blog, he explained that he made the move partly
One month after the company offered a release candidate, Microsoft has released a final version of ASP.Net MVC 2. The tool offers a Model View Controller pattern for Web app
One of the biggest current criticisms of the iPhone is that it doesn’t allow multi-tasking with third-party apps. However, that may be about to change. The latest beta of the