Mobile devices are fast outpacing the growth of PCs. Gartner Inc. estimated that 750 million mobile phones would be shipped last year — the vast majority of them with Java capabilities built in.

“It’s really hard to build an HTML application that talks to one database, yet IT developers have a huge backlog of requested applications that talk to multiple databases,” says Peter Yared, CEO of ...

XAML Studio is a rapid software application development prototyping tool that started out life as a Microsoft Garage project. It is intended to help developers to quickly build and preview User ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

Open-source software sometimes gets a bad reputation for being buggy, insecure, low-quality, or all of the above. To find out for myself, I spent a lot of time using open-source software and came away ...

Laravel Holdings Inc., the company behind the open-source Laravel PHP web application framework, announced today that it has raised $57 million in new funding from Accel Partners LP to support ...

In the past 20 years, open source software (OSS) has radically changed software development. Open source has gone from being a niche movement to mainstream and is now a core part of the commercial and ...

Federal, state and local governments' love affair with open-source software isn't cooling off. Government use of open-source technology, in fact, continues to expand beyond the Linux operating system ...

What if building your next app or website didn’t require endless hours of coding or expensive subscriptions? Imagine a tool that lets you describe your vision in plain language and transforms it into ...