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Distimo has released its latest report on activity in Apple’s App Store during April. It’s major findings include the following: The App Store now includes 4,870 apps for the iPad.
Smartphones and tables aren’t the only new trend in mobile computing—Ford is working on developing applications that work on a truly mobile platform–vehicles. However, as ReadWriteWeb points out, “developers have
The traditional approach of software development faces many challenges, like a paucity of technical skills, poor product quality, and maintainability. These challenges are further aggregated by limited availability of distinctive
SAN FRANCISCO — Adobe’s CTO Kevin Lynch came out swinging in his defense of his company’s Flash software during a keynote onstage interview here at the Web 2.0 Expo Wednesday.
The World Bank has just announced that it is opening up access to its databases for free so that developers can use the data “to create new analyses, new tools
Unnamed sources tell the Wall Street Journal that Google will unveil a new version of Android for TVs at the Google I/O conference May 19 and 20. More than 3,000
One of the key challenges faced by iPhone developers is in the area of memory management. If you are coming from an environment where memory management is all done for
Unnamed sources say that the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission are wrangling over which agency will take the lead in an inquiry into Apple’s competitive practices. Specifically,
IBM expects the global cloud computing market to grow from $47 billion in 2008 to $126 billion by 2012. With those figures in mind, the company has purchased Cast Iron
If you think databases are all of the relational SQL kind (as in MySQL, MS SQL and PostreSQL), think again. Better still: think NoSQL, as in non-relational, distributed databases that
(Editor’s Note: Welcome to our new series — Useful UML Modeling. The goal of this multi-part series is to get back to basics and help make modeling more practical and
In the past, use of most new technologies followed a predictable pattern: First, academic and scientific researchers began using the new technology. Then large enterprises and developers would pick it
After Apple chief Steve Jobs took the unusual step of writing a letter explaining his objections to Adobe’s Flash technology, Adobe’s CEO Shantanu Narayen was quick to respond. In a
Yesterday, Steve Ballmer unveiled the new Windows Messenger Live IM client in Brazil, and at the same time, Microsoft developers in Amsterdam took the wraps off Messenger Connect, the API
With a cheap digital camera you can take a picture, transfer it to your computer, and inflict it on your friends and relatives in a matter of minutes. Sometimes, however,
Market research firm Gartner says that application development (AD) software revenues decreased slight last year, falling 2 percent to $7.25 billion. “One of the main reasons for the decline in
Today HP surprised many industry watchers by announcing that it would purchase ailing smartphone market Palm in a deal worth about $1.2 billion. The move could help HP compete with
About a week ago, Facebook took the wraps off its new Open Graph social plug-ins. At the start, just 75 sites featured the “like” button and other features. Now, Facebook
In a surprise post on Apple’s Web site, CEO Steve Jobs has defended his company’s decision to block Adobe’s popular media playback software Flash.Jobs said he wrote the post because
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Playing videos is one of the most common tasks on the iPhone. On the iPhone, all videos must be played full-screen. However, on the iPad, this rule has been relaxed
Today, Apple announced the plans for its annual Worldwide Developer Conference. In addition to revealing the date and location of the event, Apple made it clear that iPhone OS 4
In a wide-ranging conversation, Andy Rudin promised that the next version of Android would support Adobe Flash technology. Sometimes being open “means not being militant about the things consumer are
Nokia’s latest software development kit for the Qt user interface framework offers two primary benefits: It makes it easier to target applications for Nokia phones, and it makes it easier
While deploying an application in the cloud offers substantial benefits, it also poses significant challenges. This white paper offers an overview of the issues involved in software as a service
One of the problems that led to the financial crisis was that financial companies paid agencies like Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s to rate their products—a clear conflict of interest.
You’ve heard the buzz: Agile development is all about solving the problems associated with traditional software development. The Agile Manifesto states, “We are uncovering better ways of developingsoftware by doing
Using a framework greatly aids in the development process, but tools like the Zend Framework, Ruby on Rails, and Grails require developers to spend a lot of time learning to
Until now, Java developers have found it difficult to move their apps to the cloud. “The whole idea is you have these 6 million Java developers, and they want an
Today, HP rolls out two new application development tools that will assist enterprises in their modernization efforts. HP Service Test Management 10.5 collects and displays data on which apps need
