RIM says it’s hoping to have plenty of apps for its PlayBook tablet when it is released later this year, but blogger Jamie Murai says the company must really want

What does it take for a mobile app to succeed? UK-based developer Chetan Damani notes that his company is “currently seeing a huge uptake from the apps we launching for

Oracle has announced the release of a new framework and client that it hopes will spur the development of Java-based apps for industrial mobile devices. The Oracle Application Development Framework

Application development tool vendor Black Duck maintains a KnowledgeBase of open source projects that currently lists 9,000 mobile projects. Of those, 3,146 declared a platform. Among those that did declare

While business apps aren’t nearly as important to the iPad platform as consumer apps, Jan Woodcock, an analyst with Wipro Consulting Services, notes that the number available is “growing quickly.”

In 2010, SaaS purchases accounted for 7 percent of software purchases. But analysts at Forrester Research predict that number will increase to 16 percent by 2013. Here’s how SaaS will

In a recent survey, OpenLogic looked at 635 top mobile applications and found that 66 included Apache- or GPL/LGP-licensed code. Of those, 70 percent failed to comply with the terms

In the past, Microsoft’s attempts at capturing a sizeable portion of the mobile phone market have been less than spectacular. Now, the company is trying to change that with a

Although most apps will be faster on the iPad 2 than on the original iPad simply because of the new device’s dual-core processor, Apple is encouraging developers to take other

Ajax.org is rolling out a new cloud-based application development tool that it’s calling “Cloud9 IDE.” The goal of the project is to make it easier for Web and mobile app

According to IHS Screen Digest, Apple’s App Store accounted for 82.7 percent of the total global application store revenue in 2010. However, a number of companies are coming up with

Pirated Android apps are a large and growing problem. Fortunately, developers can help prevent others from stealing their code with an obfuscation tool like ProGuard. ProGuard makes it much more

Recently, research firm Gartner published a report titled “Mobile Insight: Ten Consumer Mobile Applications to Watch in 2012.” It highlights trends that are currently popular in consumer apps and that

Google has officially released the software development kit (SDK) for Android 3.0, aka “Honeycomb.” Unlike the 2.x versions of Android, this release is designed to support the larger screen sizes

The insurance company Aflac has created a new app for the iPad that has greatly increased the effectiveness of its salespeople. However, the app doesn’t really do anything that couldn’t

After fixing 456 bugs, Oracle says the new version of Java SE Development Kit version 7 (JDK 7) is ready for testing by developers. According to the company, the release

In order to increase the number of apps available for the Windows Phone 7 platform, Microsoft is encouraging its own software developers to take on the challenge in their free

After Nokia announced that its new handsets would support Windows Phone 7 instead of Symbian, it experienced a sharp drop in developer enthusiasm for the older operating system. But the

On Thursday, Apple released a developer build of OS X Lion, and some features of the update will seem awfully familiar to iPad and iPhone developers. “The iPad has inspired

Andrew Vos recently ran an unusual analysis of code comments on GitHub that’s attracting some attention. Using George Carlin’s “Seven Dirty Words,” he analyzed 929857 commit messages and found 210

The fate of Nokia’s Qt development platform has been uncertain since the company announced that it would be selling smartphones that use the Windows Phone 7 operating system. Now the

For months, Google has been promoting the idea of Web apps without making much headway — probably because Web apps don’t seem much different than Web sites. However, Mozilla’s new

Fragmentation has long been a challenge for Android developers as they attempt to write applications that will work on the various versions of the OS and the myriad of devices

Recently, a post by blogger Jamie Murai took aim at RIM’s developer program. After the post received a deluge of traffic, RIM responded, admitting that many of the points made

In the middle of the iPad 2 introduction, Steve Jobs revealed an interesting statistic: The company has paid out more than $2 billion to App Store developers since its launch

A new Creative Intellect Consulting survey of more than 170 development professionals finds that 59 percent are not following security and quality processes rigorously, and 26 percent have little or