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

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.

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

Amazon has announced that its CloudFront Web service now allows developers to stream content to iPhones, iPads and any device running Microsoft Silverlight. Called “Live Smooth Streaming,” the new feature

Most Android developers don’t offer in-app purchases, but the ones that make a lot of money do, according to a new report from Distimo. The mobile analytics firm found that

Application development tool vendor Atlassian has released version 4 of its Bamboo continuous integration and delivery server. Bamboo allows developers to test development branches of code before merging with the

Startup Koding has announced that its cloud development platform has moved out of private beta status and is now available for use by all developers (although they do still need

After a breakdown in the latest round of settlement talks between Google and Oracle, the patent infringement case surrounding Android’s use of Java technology will head to trial. Magistrate Judge