Are THUMBS the real secret to mobile applications?

The holiday season is upon us and we are in that strange transcendental state between Christmas and New Year when you need to re-load and manage your Kindle library, take a few long walks and download as many video games as possible. This leads us to an important question... could the secret to...
What do developers want for Christmas?

Software application developers the world over want something very basic for Christmas this year, they want recognition as a global community. OK that's not strictly true, they do have a list: 1. Beer and soda chilled for the festive celebrations. Wine if you must. 2. Turkey is fine, has turkey...
Application development ‘inside’ the cloud just got real

Could the cloud computing model of service-based compute processing and data storage delivery be about to jolt at what we could call a strategic inflection point? Are software application development tools, components, libraries and wider/higher Integrated Development Environments now moving to...
Why predictive analytics has changed forever

There's an old saying in public relations: ... if there's no news, do a survey. Curmudgeonly naysaying aside, SAP's latest "ground-breaking & insightful" survey suggests...
Intel: how to streamline apps with HTML5

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Kevin J. Smith of Intel Corporation. How many apps does Intel manage? At Intel, our IT organisation owns and manages 1,400 applications and has procured an additional 3,000 applications for use within the...
Why developers should care about keyboards

It goes without saying that keyboards are, of course, hardware.
But could keyboards also be more of a software application development consideration than previously thought?