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One of the few bits on new information contained in Steve Ballmer’s last CES keynote address was that Microsoft will launch Kinect for Windows on February 1. The company is
A new survey of 3,335 developers conducted by Zend Technologies found that 61 percent of developers expect to use public cloud computing services this year. While 28 percent of those
According to research2guidance, companies paid $20.5 billion for mobile development services in 2011. The mobile development services category includes things like application creation, management, distribution and extension. That’s about three
While many mobile developers complain that fragmentation on the Android platform makes it difficult to create apps that work on all Android devices, Google chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt
At AT&T’s Developer Summit, CTO John Donovan announced a new cloud computing initiative known as AT&T Cloud Architect. According to Donovan, the company plans to create “a developer-centric cloud” with
Rackspace has announced that it will open source Dreadnot, a tool it developed in-house to help track and manage projects in a devops environment. The devops philosophy encourages developers to
A typical software stack consists of two tiers (an application tier and a database tier) and three layers (the application layer, the middleware layer and the infrastructure layer). In this
Should mobile developers build native apps, mobile Web apps, or some sort of combination of the two? In a new report, Forrester says that while the answer is complicated, a
Researchers at IBISWorld have published a new report which predicts that China’s software development industry will grow 25 percent per year for the next four years. In 2011, the country’s
Many cloud-based, on-demand software services are actually multi-tenant applications, able to serve multiple users simultaneously on a single application instance. In the enterprise, for example, you might use Salesforce.com’s customer
In a series of tweets, Kanye West announced that he is founding a new startup called DONDA that will make “products and experiences that people want and can afford.” To
Apple has stepped up its efforts to stop app piracy. The company has reportedly sent a number of takedown notices to Apptrackr, a service that connects users with pirated apps.
Although Google has yet to confirm the numbers, app store watcher Distimo says that the Android Market now has more than 400,000 active apps. The Android Market reached 300,000 apps
The latest IT hiring report from online jobs site Dice.com has a lot of good news for developers. On the list of positions that IT managers are looking to fill,
Just a few days into the new year, IBM announced that it would purchase Green Hat for an undisclosed sum. Green Hat makes software testing products that allow users to
With all of the imperative languages, functional languages, object-oriented languages, dynamic languages, compiled languages, interpreted languages and scripting languages available today, it might not seem like the world needs any
In the spirit of the holidays, Terry Bunio offers a lighthearted revision of the classic song “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” Here’s the last verse of “The 12 Agile Days
Which countries represent the largest untapped market for mobile app developers? By combining data on smartphone penetration and the number of middle class adults in each country (those who could
When Apple founder Steve Jobs passed away in October, the media ran stories related to Job’s impact on the tech industry for weeks. But Jobs wasn’t the only significant computing
After reviewing it at Google’s request, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has rejected a key Oracle patent. The patent in question, No. 6,192,476 “Controlling Access to a Resource”
According to mobile app marketing firm Fiksu, November was the first month when downloads of the top 200 free apps in the App Store topped 5 million per day. In
Mobile analytics firm Flurry is reporting that mobile device owners downloaded apps 242 million times on Christmas Day. By comparison, smartphone and tablet owners average 33 million downloads on a
In 2011, many independent developers received letters from firms like Lodsys or Intellectual Ventures which demanded that mobile developers pay licensing fees on patents owned by those companies. Experts say
OpenLogic has announced that its open source CloudSwing platform as a service (PaaS) solution can now be deployed on the Rackspace Cloud. CloudSwing allows enterprises to create their own customized
Two recent surveys had shed light on pervasive security problems in applications. A CAST survey found that companies have $3.6 million of technical debt that needs to be addressed, and
With more than a dozen enterprise architecture (EA) certifications available, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for architects to decide which certification to pursue. In order to help, Microsoft’s Mike Walker has
More companies will adopt service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiatives and agile practices in 2011, and are more likely to virtualize their apps than move them to the cloud – these are
Software applications rarely experience a uniform workload. The workload varies by different months in a year, different weeks in a month, different days in a week as well as different
One of the many buzzwords in technology and computing today is ?cloud.? With the rise in popularity of smart phones, many consumers now deal with the cloud on a daily
Veracode’s Fergal Glynn recently did an analysis of the number of bugs in applications and found a strange seasonal cycle. For most of the year, the number of security issues
