A report from the research division of AppNation holds good news for the mobile development industry. It predicts that the app economy will double in the next four years, growing

Forrester Research has come out with new predictions for this year’s tech spending. It says consumers and businesses will spend $2.06 trillion on technology in 2013, a 3.3 percent increase

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that MapR’s M7 big data platform is now available through Amazon’s cloud computing services. The M7 platform claims to improve the dependability, performance and

Oracle has launched new versions of several important developer tools and middleware, improving their cloud computing capabilities. The newly updated software includes Oracle Cloud Application Foundation, the WebLogic application server,

Crowdsourced cloud development company CloudSpokes has released a new tool designed to help gauge the quality of crowdsourced or outsourced code. Called “Thurgood,” the new tool works with all coding

Microsoft has officially completed its acquisition of InRelease, an application lifecycle management solution formerly owned by InCycle Software. The InRelease technology is slated to enhance the functionality of Microsoft’s Team

Among the many improvements in Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013 is improved exception reporting. InfoQ’s Anand Narayanaswamy writes, “While Windows 8.1 adds support for capturing stack traces for exceptions

Microsoft is tightening up the security requirements for apps listed in the Windows Store, Windows Phone Store, Office Store and Azure Marketplace. If developers are notified of a security vulnerability,

Microsoft has announced that the Office and Sharepoint Store will be expanding to 22 new countries, including Australia, Canada, the UK, Japan, India, South Africa, Germany, Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Ireland,

Microsoft has officially announced that Windows 8.1 (formerly codenamed “Blue”) will be released to manufacturers in late August. Citing unnamed sources, ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley says it is likely that

In the past, Microsoft used to go years between major updates to its key products. But now, its major desktop and server software packages are getting updates every year, while

On July 9, Atlassian will release Bamboo 5, the latest version of its continuous integration (CI) server. The release adds a number of new features related to DevOps, and the

Interest in DevOps, a management philosophy that encourages close collaboration between developers and IT operations, continues to grow. It aims to break down traditional “silos” in IT and to foster

Microsoft has announced that the Windows Store officially has 100,000 apps for the Windows 8 operating system. It reached the milestone about eight months after release of Windows 8. That’s

The Eclipse Foundation has quietly issued Eclipse 4.3, codenamed Kepler. According to the Foundation, more than 420 developers from 54 different organizations worked on more than 58 million lines of

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, already uses OpenStack to power its private cloud environment. Now, its openlab group is partnering with Rackspace to build a large hybrid cloud

On the second day of its Build 2013 developer conference, Microsoft announced a new partnership with platform as a service (PaaS) provider Engine Yard. Now, those who use Engine Yard’s

Google has launched a new cloud computing service for developers that it calls the Cloud Playground. The idea is to give developers a place where they can experiment with their

At its Build 2013 event in San Francisco, Microsoft took the wraps off updated versions of two of its most important tools: Visual Studio and .NET. Microsoft had previously announced

Most cloud computing providers separate their storage and computing offerings, but Joyent is launching a new service called Manta that combines object storage and processing capabilities. The company says the