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Apple has reportedly purchased Particle, a San Francisco-based Web app development firm, for an undisclosed sum. Several of the company’s employees stayed on to work for Apple as “creative technologists”
At the Australian Information Security Association’s National Conference 2012, Oracle Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson said many enterprise application development pros don’t pay enough attention to securing their apps.
During this week’s OpenStack Summit in San Diego, several vendors plan to unveil new or expanded cloud offerings based on the open source OpenStack cloud computing platform. For example, Cloudscaling
OpenStack is an open source Cloud platform effort that brings together hundreds of contributors, primarily from large and small software vendors. Founded by Rackspace and NASA, OpenStack is now starting
In its Developer blog, RIM announced that it began accepting BlackBerry 10 apps on October 10. In order to entice would-be BlackBerry developers, it promises that apps submitted now will
In part one of this article, I discussed how REST separates two different kinds of state information: resource state and application state. Resource state is stored in the persistence layer,
In an interview, Keith Lorizio, Microsoft’s vice president for U.S. sales and marketing, laid out some of the company’s goals for Windows 8. He said Microsoft hopes to have 400
The latest update for Firefox doesn’t include a lot that’s new for end users, but it does offer some significant new improvements for developers. For starters, Firefox 16 supports more
With help from Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Nokia, Adobe, HP, Opera Software and the Mozilla Foundation, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has launched a new website devoted to compiling
ZapThink has long bemoaned the fact that the big middleware vendors co-opted the SOA story, turning it into an excuse to sell middleware. Even though there’s a better understanding of
Microsoft has announced its acquisition of PhoneFactor, a company that specializes in providing security, including two-factor authentication, for enterprise mobile apps. “The acquisition of PhoneFactor will help Microsoft bring effective
CTIA and he Application Developer?s Alliance have published a new report called ?The Geography of the App Economy,? that seeks to quantify the impact that mobile development has on the
At a recent development conference in London, Facebook developer advocate Simon Cross answered questions related to Mark Zuckerberg’s recent criticisms of HTML5. “I think we have to separate HTML5 on
Platform as a service (PaaS) vendor CloudBees is adding a couple of new features that it hopes will help it attract more developers. This first, ClickStarts, is a “single-click tool
A new report from AppAnnie holds good news for Android developers. Revenue for Google Play apps has increase 137 percent since January. While iOS developers still tend to earn more
At the JavaOne 2012 event, Oracle’s Hasan Rizvi detailed some of the company’s upcoming plans for the Java platform. Those plans include support for Sumatra, a new project aimed at
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is beginning its efforts to update the HTTP standard. “It’s official: We’re working on HTTP/2.0,” tweeted IETF Hypertext Transfer Protocol working group chair Mark
Call me a cynic. After working as an industry analyst, first for IDC covering online retail, and then for ZapThink covering the Web Services and SOA markets, it’s easy to
A Hong Kong-based site called ForumsWindows8.com recently polled its readers about their favorite operating system. Interestingly, 53 percent of the site’s visitors, all of them presumably Windows 8 users, said
At a conference in London, Canalyst senior analyst Tim Shepherd discussed what he called the “appification” of enterprise software. “Enterprise app stores are really starting to come through, and is
In my early days of IT, I logged many an hour contending with poor application deployment practices. I often found myself working until the wee hours while chasing down some
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In an attempt to attract more third-party developers to its platform, startup social network App.Net is rolling out a new incentive program. The company plans to pay $20,000 to developers
Online-traffic analysis vendor Quantcast has released an open source big-data management engine. Called Quantcast File System (QFS) 1.0, the tool is designed to offer faster performance than Hadoop, which has
The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced that it plans to finish the HTML5 spec by 2014 and the HTML 5.1 spec by 2016. That plan allows the committee to
A new report from Distimo has some interesting insights for mobile development firms that are considering localizing their apps for various regions. In every country except China, English apps are
IBM has announced a new program that encourages managed services providers to build their own cloud computing offerings using IBM’s PureSystem technology and SmartCloud software. Big Blue is offering zero-interest
You want to integrate two disparate pieces of software, so you set up message interactions between them. You hammer out a common data format for the messages. You poke and
Unnamed sources reported to Bloomberg that Intel CEO Paul Otellini told his company’s Taiwanese employees that Microsoft is rushing out Windows 8 before the operating system is fully complete. However,
Oracle has launched a free version of its Application Development Framework (ADF). It will be called Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) Essentials, and it runs on the open source GlassFish
