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Microsoft and Google are revving up their battle for the budgets of Chief Information Officers, with new versions of Microsoft Office and SharePoint coming in June. One analyst, Rob Helm
PayPal sees an opportunity for developers. The company thinks third-party developers could make good money offering apps to consumers and merchants that relate to PayPal’s services, but that the company
DeveloperWorld calls Joe Stack’s fatal flight into a government building ” callous, selfish, and inexcusable,” but also points out that he has a legitimate point about tax laws that treat
Have you ever tried to assemble a model, piece of furniture, or garbage disposal and run into instructions like this?“Clamp hose A onto connector B… [30 minutes of frustration later]
In a blog post titled “Key Software Development Trends,” S. Somasegar, senior vice president of the Microsoft Developer Division, explained how Microsoft intends to respond to some recent development trends.
Last week, Apple began removing apps from the App Store that contain sexually explicit or suggestive content. So far, it has deleted 6,000 apps that had been previously approved, about
Performance testing should never be an afterthought in the development process, but incorporating it into Agile processes can be difficult. Developers must consider service-level objectives, focused performance testing, test data
Despite signs that the economic downturn is ending, jobs continue to be scarce. But that’s not the case for developers who work on Drupal and other open-source software. Cnet reports
The latest version of Mono 2.6 and the Mono Graphical editor MonoDevelop 2.2 was released in December, and with this version Mono is now more compatible with regards to Microsoft
As part of Matt Biddulph’s new job with Nokia, he needed to recruit programmers for projects in Berlin. Unfortunately, the former CTO of Dopplr didn’t know the area well and
What are the most important considerations when building a Web app? Here are Fred Willson’s top ten characteristics of successful applications: Speed Instant Utility Voice Less is More Programmable Personal
According the Juniper’s Mobile Location Based Services report, revenues from mobile location-based services (MLBS) could top $12 billion within the next four years. A number of trends lead the research
Microsoft has stepped up its virtualization efforts with two new products. Released Monday, Microsoft’s App-V 4.6 updates the company’s application virtualization software with 64-bit support. Released the same day, the
One of the hardest things to do in life is to express one’s ideas to another person. While good communication skills are a “nice to have” for most human interaction,
AppDynamics 2.0 monitors the performance of Web 2.0 applications. Specifically, it keeps tabs on Java or .Net applications with a minimal hit to application performance. It provides real-time charts and
How do the various app stores compare? Here’s what Distimo found: Android has the highest percentage of free apps (57 percent), followed by Palm (32 percent) and Apple (25 percent).
What are the biggest security threats to Web applications? Here are some highlights from 2009 research: 19 percent of security incidents targeted Web 2.0 features. 1 in 5 incidents attacked
A district court has ruled that open-source developer Robert Jacobson can collect monetary damages from Matthew Katzer in a case first filed in 2005. Jacobson created the Java Model Railroad
Electric Cloud, a provider of software production management solutions, rolled out two enhanced tools this month that provide developers with automated alternatives to tedious, costly, and error-prone manual build-test-deploy processes.The
After clearing the final regulatory hurdles, the deal that will allow Microsoft’s Bing to power Yahoo searches seems all but sure to go through. Yahoo has posted some information about
Google is courting developers with a new “Qualified Developer” certification. In order to achieve the title, developers must rack up enough points in four different categories: application development, community participation,
Bump wants everyone to use their technology to transfer data from one smartphone to another. With that goal in mind, they’ve released an API and held a developer contest to
Bonjour is Apple’s implementation of the Zeroconf protocol, which enables the automatic discovery of computers, devices and services on an IP network. In this article, you will learn how to
Officially, Microsoft won’t reveal its strategy for Windows Phone 7 developers until the Mix conference in March. Unofficially, it looks like Silverlight, XNA, and .Net will play key roles. A
In last month’s roadmap session, Oracle said that it planned to combine Sun HotSpot Java Virtual Machine with the JRockit JVM; now it has added some details to those plans
Since it’s inception last September, the CodePlex Foundation has accepted only Microsoft projects, including the Orchard Project and the ASP.Net Ajax Library. The Microsoft-back organization, which intends to bridge the
In a survey of enterprise and SMB IT executives, Forrester Research found that the bad economy has led many companies to put off buying upgrades for existing applications. This year,
To understand how deeply social media has become engrained into the heart of modern Web and even world culture, you only have to imagine the world in the year 1999
In his keynote at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Google CEO Eric Schmidt called attention to the growing importance of mobile devices. He encouraged application developers–both inside and outside
Embarcadero offers more than 20 different tools for programmers, now all available through its Embarcadero ToolCloud. Available products include Delphi, JBuilder, C++Builder, ER/Studio and DBArtisan. Developers who use the on-demand
