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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
According to website eFinancialCareers, IT workers now top the list of job titles in demand among Wall Street firms. More specifically, financial firms are looking to hiring programmers, especially those
You can send huge messages even upto 100MB using WCF 4. Here are the things you need to do in web.config in server side and / or app.config in client
You know you’re a hardcore techie if going to work would be perfect if it weren’t for all the damn users. If the business wasn’t bothering you with requirements then
Exceptional Software has announced that more than 100,000 Web and mobile development firms in 102 countries now use its error tracking service. Exceptional offers two separate services: Exceptional.io and Airbrake.io.
Amazon is adding large feature boxes it calls “Billboards” to the Amazon Appstore. Clicking on a billboard will take a user directly to an app’s listing in the Appstore. Amazon
Included in Adobe’s most recent quarterly report was some good news for the software development industry: The company reported “overachievement” of its goals for transitioning from traditional software sales to
At its Dreamforce conference, Salesforce.com made a slew of announcements, including unveiling new tools for building mobile apps for the Salesforce platform. Called “Salesforce Touch,” the mobile development tools will
The Register recently talked with Microsoft corporate vice president Soma Somasegar on the company’s plans for supporting development platforms. When asked about all the recent changes, Somasegar admitted, “We’ve had
Salesforce.com has updated its Heroku platform as a service with improved up support for Java. The company is now offering an Enterprise Java service that bundles together everything you need
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MasterCard has announced the availability of a new software development kit (SDK) for its PayPass near field communication (NFC) technology. It will allow mobile development firms and network operators to
A new Coverity survey of 240 software developers revealed that 51 percent had experienced at least one security incident related to Web applications in the past 18 months. Two companies
Android developers working on Kindle apps have a new tool at their disposal. Amazon has added a Maps API to its SDK. The company hasn’t provided many details, but the
Google has released a pair of new development tools. The first and most noteworthy is a new Java-to-Objective-C translation tool that will make it possible to write iOS apps in
In a recent blog post, I chided the NoSQL movement for naming itself after the absence of something. But not only is this naming approach for a broad market category
Researchers at Frost & Sullivan say that platform as a service (PaaS) will be the next big area of competition for cloud computing providers. That could lead to rapid changes
The Ohio Department of Public Safety is touting its success in transitioning its legacy applications from its mainframe to Windows systems. Back in 2007, the department was spending about $1
