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A free, open source solution for connecting mobile, IoT, or Web apps to backend server data and services Let’s say you’re building a browser-based HTML5 Web application that’s going to display data from a database on your server. The usual development process involves lots of heavy lifting at both the […]
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Android mobile devices, while not typically thought of as places where development work gets done, can offer surprisingly useful apps to help developers get the job done Web developer apps for your Android device As Web developers, most of us love to stay connected to the Web. Now with the […]
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Researchers from North Carolina State University have found a way to monitor for Android malware with very low overhead With smartphones and tablets increasingly at risk from malware, researchers from North Carolina State University have devised a new and potentially better way to detect it on Android devices. The tool […]
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JavaScript, APIs, and PaaS advance; Samsung tries to stand out; and Java and .Net become legacy platforms The software development landscape in 2013 saw technologies like JavaScript rise to new heights while others — Java, for example — maintained their prominence out of sheer inertia. For software developers this year, […]
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Plus, Samsung going heavy metal but light on the updates, Google Glass gets torn up The Android world is in a weird place, as far as version 5.0 or (supposedly) Key Lime Pie is concerned. After whiffing mightily on our confident predictions that it would be rolled out during Google […]
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NotCompatible’ Android malware rears its ugly head, again Mobile security vendor Lookout says Android malware is showing signs of sudden activity The “NotCompatible” malware, designed to infect Android devices and turn them into unwitting Web proxies, is suddenly showing a sharp uptick in activity, according to mobile security vendor Lookout. […]
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If Mozilla has teamed up with a hardware partner (or partners) then it’s serious about B2G, and if it’s serious about B2G, then it’s also serious about going head-to-head against Apple and Google. Best Microsoft MCTS Certification, Microsoft MCITP Training at certkingdom.com If rumors are to be believes, not only […]
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If you look at the numbers a certain way, it appears that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser has fallen to below 50 percent of the overall browser market, according to figures from Net Applications. That figure, however, takes into account mobile market share, and mobile is area in which Microsoft could […]
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Whatever your position is on patent infringement and the never-ending lawsuits in the mobile space, the fact is until the system is overhauled it is the law. I hate that design elements can be patented, instead of actual devices which makes more sense. Apple has been riding the patentability of […]
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Unlike, oh, to pick a random example, Apple, Microsoft has only a very limited retail presence. The company has opened a handful of (high-quality and actually rather pleasant) Microsoft stores in the US, but has little direct consumer reach beyond that. For the most part, it sells its Xboxes and […]