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In February, Microsoft debuted a preview of its Windows Store for apps that will run on the Windows 8 Metro interface. Now, it’s expanding that preview, adding 33 more countries
In a webcast, Forrester principal analyst Jeffrey Hammond warned that enterprises that don’t embrace open source development and technologies could face extinction. He said that open source has allowed innovation
The World Wide Web has an estimated 2 billion users and contains anywhere from 15 to 45 billion Web pages, with around 10 million pages added each day. With such
Appcelerator has released version 2.0 of its Titanium mobile development platform. The update includes Appcelerator Cloud Services, a group of features that makes it easier for developers to add photo-sharing,
A new webinar from Gartner offers advice for enterprise architecture (EA) and application architecture. On the EA side, Gartner’s Betsy Burton offered ten best practices: Look at EA in the
Netflix has announced plans to release a bunch of monkeys into the wild — but in this case, “monkeys” refers the cloud development and management tools the company uses to
As more business users turn to their smartphones and tablets to get their work done, a growing number of enterprises are turning to corporate app stores as a way to
Jason Andersen, Director Middleware Product Line Management at Red Hat, explained to that the starting point for people to consider the Data Grid is when they have a performance or
RIM recently announced that it would end Android app sideloading for its PlayBook tablet, but now the company appears to have changed its mind. In a new blog post, RIM’s
SAP appears to be moving towards becoming a major player in mobile enterprise application development. The firm has announced that it has purchased mobile business development firm Syclo and signed
Last week, word leaked out that Amazon was testing in-app purchases with a select group of developers. Now, the company has made the feature official and has announced that Walt
A startup called Heirloom Computing has launched a new development platform that aims to make it easier to move legacy applications from the mainframe to the cloud. ELPaaS, as the
Last June, Apple asked a U.S. district court judge to allow the company to intervene in cases brought by Lodsys against iOS developers. Now, the judge has agreed. Widely considered
VMware’s CloudFoundry platform as a service (PaaS) has always been open source, but the company has announced changes to its processes that will encourage more community participation on the cloud
The Windows Runtime Library (WinRT) is the default API for the Windows 8 OS — Microsoft’s 128-bit OS with support for as much as 512 GB of RAM. Built on
A new survey from Evans Data Corp finds that full-time mobile development professionals are actually a fairly small fraction of the group working on mobile apps — just 26 percent.
ASP.NET MVC is an alternate to the ASP.NET Web Forms pattern for creating MVC-based Web applications within Microsoft .NET framework. This lightweight framework is integrated with existing ASP.NET features. MVC
HTML5 developers had hoped that the new iPad would offer greatly improved support for the burgeoning Web standard. Instead, they got a device with about the same level of HTML5
On Thursday, Google CEO Larry Page posted an open letter on the Web, touting his company’s accomplishments, particularly its accomplishments with Android. “Android is on fire, and the pace of
Flurry has announced some enhancements to its free mobile app analytics tool, which is used by a third of all iOS apps and a quarter of all Android apps. First,
Google has announced some changes to its App Engine which should provide Web application developers better availability and performance. The App Engine used to utilize a Master/Slave Datastore, which was
In a new forecast, market research firm Forrester predicts boom times for the enterprise software development market. The company says that U.S. IT spending will climb 7.1 percent this year,
Six years after the service first went live, Amazon’s S3 is approaching 1 trillion objects in storage. In the most recent quarter, the cloud computing service added 143 billion objects,
As part of its efforts to encourage developers to embrace the mobile Web, Facebook has released its Ringmark testing suite under an open source license. The tool allows developers to
Working as a developer can be a very rewarding career; however, like all professions it also has some drawbacks. If you’re a developer here are some hard truths that InfoWorld
A new report from Gartner says that the software as a service (SaaS) market will grow 17.9 percent in 2012, with total spending topping $14.5 billion. By 2014, customers will
A new report from research2guidance finds 59 full-catalog app stores have opened since 2000, with 49 of them considered viable today. According to the firm, that’s the “saturation point,” and
Mobile analytics firm Flurry has released a new report which suggests that the Amazon Appstore is nearly as lucrative for mobile developers as Apple’s App Store. The study compared apps
Microsoft has released a preview of improvements to its Visual Studio IDE and its Team Foundation Service platform that will make it possible (and easy) to create apps for SharePoint
A new report from IDC predicts that Android will continue to increase in popularity with users — but not with developers. Although researchers usually calculate operating system market share separately
