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Mobile development tool vendor Appcelerator has announced that it will acquire a startup called Nodeable for an undisclosed sum. Nodeable offers Hadoop-based technology to provide real-time insight about how people
A new Vancouver, BC-based startup called NodeFly wants to make it easier to monitor the performance of Web applications built with Node.js. Company CEO Glen Lougheed says that while there
The notion of a workload is central to Cloud Computing, but a clear definition of this fundamental concept is more elusive than you might think. Essentially, a workload is a
Just a few months ago, it seemed that every company even remotely related to the mobile development industry wanted to open its own app store, but now one company has
Apple may have created the market for apps, but Google’s Android now dominates. According to a new report from ABI Research, the iPhone accounted for 29 percent of all app
Australia’s Commonwealth Consumer Affairs Advisory Council (CCAAC) is launching an investigation into whether mobile development firms are abiding by its laws. The council’s assistant treasurer David Bradbury asked consumers to
The Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) has put out an urgent call to software developers, software engineers and others who use APIs, asking them to submit stories that explain why APIs
After a year of beta trials, Microsoft has officially released its Team Foundation Service, a hosted version of its Team Foundation Server application lifecycle management (ALM) tools. For now, only
In case you missed them, two stories last week emphasized a disturbing truth about the continuing Global Cyberwar. First, foreign hackers compromised the Government of South Carolina, stealing data from
According to Fiksu, the average costs mobile development firms paid to acquire a loyal user (one who opens an app three times) dropped by 16 percent (21 cents) in September
A new report from Juniper Networks concludes that free Android apps pose a much greater security risk than paid apps. According to Juniper, free Android apps are 401 percent more
According to the official numbers released by each company, Google and Apple are now tied in the number of apps included in their respective app stores. On Wednesday, Google announced
California Attorney General Kamala Harris has sent letters to numerous companies, including United, Delta and OpenTable, warning that their mobile apps are violating state law. The California Online Privacy Protection
On Monday, Microsoft officially launched Windows Phone 8. The new mobile OS is full of features for business users and consumers, and it also has a few things to offer
In a bid to attract more developers to build apps for its smartphones, Nokia has announced a new ad exchange program. The Nokia Ad Exchange (NAX) will leverage technology from
In order to compensate developers for the Google App Engine downtime last week, Google plans to give paid subscribers to the cloud development service a 10 percent refund on their
As I’ve discussed before in this blog, REST is an architectural style for building distributed hypermedia applications much more than a way to simplify APIs. Essentially, REST takes the idea
Cloud development platform Google App Engine experienced widespread downtime on Friday. At the time of writing, it wasn’t clear what was behind the outage at the popular platform as a
At Friday’s PyData conference in New York, engineers from AppNexus explained how their company is using Python for big data analysis. Python, which is known as one of the easier
Agile software development tool vendor and consultancy ThoughtWorks has published a new “radar report” that attempts to identify trends in the IT industry. The report states that a “seismic shift
Marissa Mayer has purchased her first company as chief executive of Yahoo. Her company acquired Stamped, a mobile development startup that has created a review app with some social features.
Continuity, a new startup founded by former Yahoo cloud VP Todd Papaioannou and Facebook engineer Jonathan Gray, wants to simplify Hadoop for developers. Gigaom’s Derrick Harris explains, “Rather than simply
Oracle has released a new mobile development extension for its Application Development Framework (ADF). Called ADF Mobile, the tool helps enterprise application development pros port their Java apps to iOS
Mobile analytics vendor Flurry has updated its Mobile Apps: Money, Models and Loyalty report that was first published three years ago. Since that time, average 90-day retention rates for mobile
Glassdoor.com has published a new report that compares average pay for software engineers at 15 leading tech firms. The top five included the following: Google ($128,336) Facebook ($123,626) Apple ($114,413)
Clustering has been an important tool in the IT architect’s tool belt for many years now. Put a group of servers or storage together on a LAN, add some well-planned
This is a simple command that is not used often, even by experienced database creators. So, how does it help you?Once you implement a number of changes into your table,
Pair programming can be tough for even the best developers. It can be downright daunting if you haven’t done it before, are introverted or unsure of yourself. For those of
Organizations worldwide are eyeing their existing data centers and wondering what it would take to turn them (or some part of them) into Private Clouds. Install virtualization? Check. Are we
At the Tech Ed event in Las Vegas, SAP revealed its plans to create a cloud development platform that will rely on its HANA in-memory database. So far, only one
