Amazon has gained a clear lead as the preferred environment for software developers looking to use the cloud for building applications. A global study, conducted by Forrester Research, polling developers with experience of using cloud ...
Tags: Amazon, cloud for building applications, environment for software
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved social network Facebook's proposed acquisition of mobile photo-sharing service Instagram. The approval comes a week after the UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) cleared the deal, giving ...
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The year 2012 will go down in history as the year when people voted with their wallets and decided that tablets are good enough for work. The success of tablets has driven people to bring their own devices to work. Supporting these ...
Tags: tablets, managed desktop estate, PC suppliers, desktop virtualisation, IT
More than 17,600 users in U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) are being moved from their BlackBerry devices to Apple's iPhone, after it was found that technology from Research In Motion cannot meet the mobile technology needs of ...
Tags: U.S., ICE, BlackBerry devices, Apple, iPhone
IDG News Service - Two names that have recently been out of the limelight recently turned up on Tuesday at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission: Bankrupt would-be mobile broadband carrier LightSquared and former FCC Chairman Kevin ...
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As mobile devices and social media put down ever deeper roots in IT, businesses are seeing big changes in how employees do their jobs and how customers interact with them, in addition to--ideally--using the technologies to find new revenue ...
Tags: mobile devices, social media, IT, BPM
Sencha has worked with SAP to make it easier for users to build HTML5-based applications using Sencha Touch 2 and a new connector, the company said on Monday. The Touch 2 mobile application framework is used to build mobile applications ...
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Following major announcements from Amazon Web Services in recent weeks around data warehousing and management, Rackspace today announced new capabilities for database hosting and management. A NoSQL database as a service (DBaaS) from a ...
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Yahoo has acquired a video chat startup OnTheAir as the company focuses on mobile applications and services. "When we first met with the team at Yahoo!, it was clear that everybody there is committed to making mobile products the backbone ...
Tags: Yahoo, video chat, OnTheAir, mobile apps and services
WILMINGTON, DE, December 22, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- AppSLAW, LLC, an emerging mobile applications and games developer, is excited to announce the launch of Listen Up! on the App Store. Compatible with the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, ...
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Apple has received rare praise from a leading rights advocacy group for incorporating important new privacy enhancing features in its recently released iOS 6 operating system. In a blog post on Monday, the Center for Democracy and ...
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An international research team has been exploring the role of gate oxide border traps in devices being developed for future electronics.The researchers presented their results at the 2012 International Electron Devices Meeting[D.Lin et ...
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Oracle touted what it called strong early adoption of its next-generation Fusion Applications on Monday, but also discussed how it will continue to support and add new features to the company's other business software lines, such as ...
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Good Technology has acquired AppCentral, and plans to use the company's products to boost its ability to manage and secure mobile enterprise applications, Good said on Tuesday. The deal will extend the capabilities of the Good Dynamics ...
Tags: Good Technology, AppCentral, mobile enterprise apps, mobile
Everyone involved with HTML5 on mobile devices needs to step up their efforts and solve issues with performance and monetization in order for the technology to reach its true potential, according to Facebook developer advocate Simon Cross. ...
Tags: HTML5, mobile devices, Facebook, monetization