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The “2012 IT Salary Report” from Computer Economics holds some good news for mobile developers. While the average IT worker will see pay increases of 2.8 percent this year, mobile
A report from research firm IHS revealed that app users spent $970 million on in-app purchases in 2011, accounting for 39 percent of the market. The firm predicts that in-app
While the U.S. has more Android smartphone owners than iOS smartphone owners, many mobile development pros continue to focus on Apple’s platform for one reason — iPhone and iPad owners
As companies begin to test the waters with cloud computing, experts say that IT workers need to work on acquiring cloud-related skills. “There’s a great benefit today in that there
Many industry observers agree that 2012 will be the year that the competition among Java platform as a service (PaaS) offerings begins to get fierce. For enterprises, the challenge will
Judge William Alsup has postponed the start date for the trial which will determine whether Google’s Android violates Oracle’s Java patents. “Before a trial date will be set, the issue
Freelancer.com has published a list of the fastest growing job titles for the most recent quarter, and software development jobs are all over the list. Mobile development and HTML5 jobs,
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
