Build a Windows 8 app, get a prize from Microsoft
Microsoft yesterday took another stab at boosting interest in creating apps for Windows 8 with an awards program that will hand out Xbox games and other prizes to amateur programmers.
Microsoft yesterday took another stab at boosting interest in creating apps for Windows 8 with an awards program that will hand out Xbox games and other prizes to amateur programmers.
Samsung is the largest maker of Android smartphones, which make up up 70% of the overall worldwide smartphone market. Now the company's dependence on Android seems poised to start shifting to the open source Tizen OS.
Apple on Sunday admitted that its developer website, which has been offline since Thursday, had been hacked and sSome information may have been stolen.
The combined value of paid apps, app-enabled purchases of goods and services and in-app advertising is expected to double to $US151 billion in the US by 2017, AppNation said.
The U.S. may be the global center of the IT universe, but India will exceed the U.S. in the number of software developers by 2017, a new report notes.
Google on Monday expanded on its strategy to turn any connected device into an ersatz Chromebook by adding access to several services, including Google Wallet, and baked-in hardware, like Bluetooth, to super-apps that run in its Chrome browser.
Users from Germany and Hong Kong offered real-world experience in deploying data mapping apps at the Esri International User Conference in San Diego.
As the government cuts its own employment, federal agencies are trying to stimulate job creation by making vast amounts of government data freely available.
Opera Software on Monday released a final version of Opera 15, the first of its desktop browsers to rely on the open-source Chromium engine.
Submissions to Microsoft's Windows Store, after stalling earlier this year, are again on the increase, perhaps because developers have been reinvigorated by talk of Windows 8.1 and this week's BUILD conference.
Microsoft today must deliver on expectations that have been mounting since the sluggish start of Windows 8 eight months ago, analysts said.
AT&T Tuesday announced plans to open new innovation centers in Atlanta and Plano, Texas, to open in coming months, giving it a total of five such centers worldwide.
Microsoft will webcast the opening keynote of its BUILD developers conference Wednesday starting at 9 a.m. PT (noon ET).
Linux developers were once just that, developers. But their role is changing says the Linux Foundation, which is expanding its training options to help them.
Nearly three-dozen computer scientists have signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle's effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and deny affordable technology to end users.