You’ve heard of software as a service, platform as a service and infrastructure as a service — now there’s open source license management as a service. WhiteSource Software is debuting

The app store formerly known as the Android Market has quietly passed a major milestone. Google has confirmed that Google Play saw its 15 billionth app download several weeks ago.

As platform as a service (PaaS) become more popular and more important, quite a few vendors have entered the market. Here’s a quick overview of twelve of the most important

Facebook is officially getting into the app store business by launching a new App Center. Although apps have long been a part of the social network, until now it has

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new feature that will notify customers of its cloud computing services when their usage exceeds certain levels. AWS already offered CloudWatch, a dashboard

In November 2010, Heroku was a respectable PaaS startup with an impressive 100,000 apps — all written in Ruby. Eighteen months later, the cloud development service is now part of

Google has announced the addition of several new capabilities for its Docs Suite that should make it easier for developers to extend the capabilities of the cloud computing service. Devs

Open source heavyweight Red Hat has released the source code for OpenShift, its platform as a service (PaaS) for Java, PHP, Python, Perl and Ruby applications. That means developers can

The jury is currently deliberating its verdict in the first phase of the Oracle v. Google lawsuit, and the development community is watching with great concern. While patent infringement lawsuits

The Apache Software Foundation has announced the availability of Apache TomEE v1.0, a cloud-friendly version of the popular open source Tomcat application server. As the name suggests, TomEE combines Java

As business users increasingly turn to smartphones and tablets to do their jobs, enterprise application development teams are facing increasing pressure to turn out mobile versions of the apps those

Data integration solution vendor Informatica has launched a new Cloud Development Edition of its platform. Aimed at software vendors and systems integrators, the new tool offers a Java-based programming interface

As part of its efforts to entice developers to build apps for its new BlackBerry 10 platform, RIM is offering cold, hard cash. “Quality certified apps submitted to App World

The European Court of Justice has handed down a ruling that could have widespread implications for the software industry. In a lawsuit brought by SAS Institute against World Programming Limited

At the annual BlackBerry World conference, RIM launched BlackBerry 10, the latest update to its mobile operating system. Although the company is not releasing any phones that use the new

CollabNet, best known as the company behind Subversion, is launching a new cloud development platform it calls CloudForge. It allows distributed teams to develop new software in the cloud and

Microsoft has announced the release of Casablanca, a new set of C++ libraries aimed making it easier to consume and implement RESTful services. In a blog post, Microsoft’s Soma Somasegar

Mobile ad firm MoPub has published a new study which claims that some of the recent privacy protection steps taken by Apple are costing mobile development firms. Following a Congressional

Oracle has released Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 7 Update 4 and JavaFX 2.1, which includes the Java Development Kit (JDK) with the first ever JavaFX SDK for MacOS

If you’re trying to decide whether to build a consumer app or a business app, several venture capital firms suggest you’re better off building a B2B app. While a few

Appcelerator’s inclusion of Cloud Services in the latest version of Titanium is just one more example of the growing importance of backend as a service (BaaS) offerings. BaaS vendors provide

At a recent Forrester event, firm VP Kyle McNabb advised enterprises to considering hiring programmers who work on open source projects. “When looking at your talent, ask software developers if

Amazon has launched the AWS Marketplace, a new way for customers to find and deploy software on the company’s cloud computing services. The Marketplace features applications from a wide-variety of

A new survey of 2,550 developers, architects and IT managers conducted by development tool vendor Sonatype found that only 32 percent of development teams keep track of the open source

Oracle’s lawsuit against Google has revealed some interesting nuggets about Google’s revenue expectations for the Android platform. First of all, while Google takes a 30 percent cut of all app