Tomorrow Apple is going to unveil new iPhones, new sales numbers, and a new mobile operating system. Tonight, however, Microsoft put up its hand and said “Don’t forget about us!”
And the company has good reason to.
Guest Post by Aaron Schlesinger, Senior Software Engineer at StackMob
These days, having your own API is the ante for operating a cloud platform.
Land of the free and the home of the brave? Our tax dollars at work.
Adobe’s been building a lot of bridges between development and design lately, and its latest launch is a very solid bridge, indeed.
“If you can just go in there and do what you need to do, just understanding the fundamentals of how the thing should work — as opposed to figuring out how to make the computer make it work — then you can achieve a lot more in a short period of time,” the serial entrepreneur who spawned PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX says.
VentureBeat is announcing a new events package that will enable you to attend four of our signature events for a fraction of the price.
Sponsored Post Today, Ford is kicking off a partnership with VentureBeat to highlight some of the many ways that developers can work to create the “Internet of Things.”
Richard Stallman created GNU, which in turn gave birth to the Linux operating system. He is a hero in the world of free software and is one of the most committed, passionate people I’ve ever met.
Yodlee Interactive is an ecosystem of financial apps that banks can easily integrate and resell to their customers. The goal is to build the worlds’ greatest developer community around financial services.
Cloud-based developer tooling is still a very new and highly volatile marketplace. Here’s how we decided who’s on the rise, who’s on the downswing, and who’s capturing the future of development.
“At this point, we’re basically completely focused on being a mobile platform… That’s where all our energy is going,” said Facebook exec Mike Vernal.
“We have much more visibility and much more momentum” with the Facebook brand attached, said Parse CEO Ilya Sukhar. “We’re really happy with it.”
Mobile backend-as-a-service Parse is rolling out five new products today, all of them sure to be big hits with the developer community, from game devs to iPhone devs to analytics nerds and beyond.
Square is making selling products online as simple as embedding a YouTube video in your blog.
“Parse is everywhere,” said Parse CPO James Yu. And for Parse, “everywhere” means a community of developers that’s growing by thousands every month.
Likening the backend-building process to spending a day at the Department of Motor Vehicles, Parse founder Ilya Sukhar said, “I could probably do better by replacing the DMV.”
Sponsored Post The premier gaming and technology conference, is less than a month away.
Guest Post Pricing for cloud computing of Amazon is inflated. The general impression that Amazon’s cloud margins are low and kept low by constant price cuts is far from the truth.
The latest numbers, released this evening by Google, show significant improvement. And that’s good for developers, who have to build apps that work on as wide a range of devices as possible.
If you’ve got an iOS, Android, or other mobile app already, Mozilla will fork over a free Firefox OS phone for you to keep forever and ever. All you have to do is port your app to HTML5.
“To be clear, $9.99 is not an introductory price,” Adobe employee Winston Hendrickson wrote in a blog post on the news. “It is the price for those of you who sign up by December 31, 2013.”
“Plus, being in the Google Hangouts ecosystem you can mix us with other apps,” Lahoutifard told me. “You can activate a prepared logo, namebar, and presentation title, or you can show a PowerPoint.”
Guest Post A digital agency called Canvas is using Platform as a Service (PaaS) tools for competitive advantage, not just as a way to increase uptime. Here’s how.
“We want people to associate good startups with RocketSpace in the same way you’d think law with Harvard, or tech with MIT.”
Welcome to two days of hands-on experiences with the best companies and the best hackers in the world. No panels, no fluff, no filler. And we have a whole track of Master Classes just to teach you new ways to code.
As few as 5 percent of American schools have computer science classes, and most of them aren’t in poor, at-risk districts like Umatilla, Ore., where people earn around $15,000 per year on average. But better education & access to jobs could change that.
We were blown away by the quality of the 200 plus cloud startup applicants to the CloudBeat 2013 Innovation Showdown, one of the highlights of our third annual cloud adoption event (September 9-10 in San Francisco).
Microsoft may have married the Finnish girl of its dreams, but the Redmond software giant still plans to play the field.
Guest Post APIs are fueling a revolution in the ways consumers and businesses handle products.
For New Relic-using apps, each app has an average of 639,000 active users per minute. Zoinks! The average response time, however, is a lazy-river 3.28 seconds.
The course doesn’t just cover how to lock down your work; it explores how to responsibly share what you’ve created with more open licenses and copyright alternatives like Creative Commons.
Guest Post In today’s world, having a strong API strategy isn’t just good software practice; it’s a powerful business practice.
Disney’s hybrid cloud solution includes a fully-functional CloudStack private cloud, tightly integrated with a highly capable object storage from Swift, as offered by a company called SwiftStack.
ReadyForce and SignalFire are co-hosting the second University Hacker Olympics from September 13-15 in what they claim is “the most epic university hackathon ever.”
Editor’s Pick Did you know that Azure is one of the most popular tools around? It’s also one of the most disliked. The undisputed favorite among devs is Github, with Heroku and New Relic coming in a distant second and third.
Android app revenues will hit $6.8 billion this year for smartphones alone, ABI Research said today. That’s almost double the total from last year.
It’s still only about 60 percent of Android rival iOS.
Guest Post Open source ideals are already spreading in governments throughout the world, with good reason. A global network of developers is motivated to help.
Guest Post Intel may have dominated the data center since the 1990s, but after more than a decade, the battle for the server silicon and control of the data center is about to re-ignite again.
“A computer program is not a patentable invention.” Time to bust out the champagne, neckbeards! Wait, you guys have champagne, right?
