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Amazon Web Services has announced that it is offering Microsoft Windows Server 2012 instances through its EC2 cloud computing service. Its Elastic Beanstalk deployment and provisioning service also supports the
We’ve grown complacent. Cyberattacks are so common, so ubiquitous, that we’ve grown inured to them. Phishing attacks clog our inboxes. Denial of Service attacks pepper our financial system. And attacks
The mobile development industry is currently embroiled in a battle between those who think that Web-based applications built with HTML5 technology will eventually prevail and those who believe native applications
According to Appsfire, Apple’s App Store passed a major milestone on Monday: 1 million apps approved since the store’s inception in July 2008. While Apple is unlikely to acknowledge the
Microsoft recently announced major changes to SharePoint as an application development platform. It rolled out new tools designed to make it easier to create SharePoint apps and revealed that SharePoint
Private Cloud Adoption. Scene 1, Take 1. Action! Business Exec — “Public Clouds are too risky! They scare me. We need to build ourselves a Private Cloud.” IT Manager —
As the countdown continues for RIM’s January 30 launch of BlackBerry 10, the company continues to push developers to get involved with the platform. The latest effort is the BlackBerry
Oracle has bought a minority stake in platform as a service provider Engine Yard. San Francisco-based Engine Yard offers a cloud development platform that runs on Amazon and Terremark cloud
Continuity, a Palo Alto-based started that provides tools for big data application development, has announced that it has raised $10 million from venture capital firms, including Battery Ventures, Ignition Partners,
In July of this year, Microsoft bought enterprise social networking vendor Yammer for $1.2 billion, and since then, the larger firm has begun adopting some of Yammer’s software development practices.
October was a particularly good month for startups related to the mobile development industry. Several well-known venture capital firms made significant investments in firms that offer development, testing and analytics
After numerous delays, RIM has finally settled on a date for the official launch of its new BlackBerry 10 mobile operating system: January 30. However, the company has not said
CodeGuru has published a new infographic from Typemock that analyzes the impact of software bugs on the U.S. economy. It claims bugs cost the economy $60 billion per year–the equivalent
Looking back at World War II, armchair historians might point to Allied valor, American industrial might, or the sheer evil of the Third Reich as essential enablers of the Allied
Mobile development tool vendor Appcelerator has announced that it will acquire a startup called Nodeable for an undisclosed sum. Nodeable offers Hadoop-based technology to provide real-time insight about how people
A new Vancouver, BC-based startup called NodeFly wants to make it easier to monitor the performance of Web applications built with Node.js. Company CEO Glen Lougheed says that while there
The notion of a workload is central to Cloud Computing, but a clear definition of this fundamental concept is more elusive than you might think. Essentially, a workload is a
Just a few months ago, it seemed that every company even remotely related to the mobile development industry wanted to open its own app store, but now one company has
Apple may have created the market for apps, but Google’s Android now dominates. According to a new report from ABI Research, the iPhone accounted for 29 percent of all app
Australia’s Commonwealth Consumer Affairs Advisory Council (CCAAC) is launching an investigation into whether mobile development firms are abiding by its laws. The council’s assistant treasurer David Bradbury asked consumers to
The Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) has put out an urgent call to software developers, software engineers and others who use APIs, asking them to submit stories that explain why APIs
After a year of beta trials, Microsoft has officially released its Team Foundation Service, a hosted version of its Team Foundation Server application lifecycle management (ALM) tools. For now, only
In case you missed them, two stories last week emphasized a disturbing truth about the continuing Global Cyberwar. First, foreign hackers compromised the Government of South Carolina, stealing data from
According to Fiksu, the average costs mobile development firms paid to acquire a loyal user (one who opens an app three times) dropped by 16 percent (21 cents) in September
A new report from Juniper Networks concludes that free Android apps pose a much greater security risk than paid apps. According to Juniper, free Android apps are 401 percent more
According to the official numbers released by each company, Google and Apple are now tied in the number of apps included in their respective app stores. On Wednesday, Google announced
California Attorney General Kamala Harris has sent letters to numerous companies, including United, Delta and OpenTable, warning that their mobile apps are violating state law. The California Online Privacy Protection
On Monday, Microsoft officially launched Windows Phone 8. The new mobile OS is full of features for business users and consumers, and it also has a few things to offer
In a bid to attract more developers to build apps for its smartphones, Nokia has announced a new ad exchange program. The Nokia Ad Exchange (NAX) will leverage technology from
In order to compensate developers for the Google App Engine downtime last week, Google plans to give paid subscribers to the cloud development service a 10 percent refund on their
