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Rackspace News: SDK for .NET, PowerClient and Mobile
Latest Rackspace developments include .NET SDK, PowerClient – a PowerShell-based management tool – and PHP mobile back-end.
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Jenkins CI Server Plugin Drives SOASTA CloudTest Server
Earlier this month, SOASTA and CloudBees released a plugin for the Jenkins continuous integration (or CI) server to run automated tests on real physical mobile devices. SOASTA released this plugin with optimizations that were developed by the creator of Jenkins, Kohsuke Kawaguchi. The plugin provides build steps for performing operations and testing mobile devices.
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Mobile App Developers in Violation of Privacy Laws
Even if an app developer is a geek of the highest order, deftly orchestrating multiple code languages to fulfill their legal obligation for a comprehensive privacy protection policy, it all may be compromised when they permit their mobile app to funnel clients’ personal data, such as; texts, photos, geolocation, audio or video to an ad agency, MBaaS provider or other third party player.
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Mobile Dev, Big Data Analytics Take Center Stage at IBM Impact 2013
At its annual customer conference in Las Vegas, IBM unveiled a number of new enhancements to its “MobileFirst” portfolio of products including data analytics support, mobile cloud services, cross-platform testing capabilities, as well as a series of updates to their core products to better support the mobile ecosystem.
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Tabris 1.0: Cross-platform Mobile Development in Java
After three years in development, EclipseSource has released Tabris 1.0, a cross-platform Java mobile development framework for iOS and Android.
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Google Releases Mirror API for Glass
Google has released the Mirror API for writing Glassware applications and the final specification for Glass devices.
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IBM Mobile First- MBaaS, Big Data and Then Some for Enterprise
IBM has assembled a comprehensive portfolio of applications whereby enterprises can catch up to today’s current mobile computing trends. Mobile First is designed to enable enterprise to get their share of the billions of dollars that the firm maintains is being left on the table by the organizations that are not gearing up for this trend.
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Has Web Style Worked?
Almost 7 years ago Tim Bray declared SOA dead and the future was Web Style. In a recent blog post Jean-Jacques Dubray looks back over the years and decides that Web Style hasn't worked and, given the plethora of non-Web Style services in the Programmable Web directory, is in fact itself dead. He also looks at what this means for computing and the future of application development.
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An Analyzation of Parse MBaaS
In this third in a series of posts on the new breed of companies offering MBaaS, InfoQ examines what makes Parse tick. Parse, like its growing list of competitors, saves mobile app developers the time and hassle required to create one’s own efficient mobile backend.
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jQuery Mobile 1.3.0 Released
The jQuery Foundation released version 1.3.0 of its JavaScript and HTML5/CSS framework jQuery Mobile. The update focusses on responsive web design and introduces new widgets for mobile applications.
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To Live and Code in Kinvey MBaaS
Second in a series of articles about the organizations back of the burgeoning category of Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS), InfoQ takes a gander at Cambridge, Massachusetts company Kinvey, Inc. Kinvey’s third party data integrations, support for multiple platforms, notifications, versioned API’s and business logic features expedite the developer’s backend.
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In Case You Missed It: Qt 5.0
Qt 5 was released with a heavy emphasis on its declarative programming language, QML. Based on CSS and JavaScript, it allows developers to quickly add user interfaces to applications written in a wide variety of languages.
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Enterprises Have Built Few Mobile Apps, Plan on Doing More
According to a recent Appcelerator survey, enterprise have built few mobile applications so far, but they intend to build more this year considering 2013 as the year when the number of mobile apps created will surpass those for the desktop. The report includes other details on the enterprise mobile space.
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Kii Cloud Back End Features Analytics and Monetization
If you want to gain a significant presence in the Asian mobile community, Kii Cloud provides a snap in back end for your iOS, Android or HTML5/JavaScript mobile app. It’s free to add a comprehensive back end that features analytics and monetization to your app during its current Beta run.
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Trends in the latest Technology Radar
ThoughtWorks's latest "Technology Radar" focuses on mobile, accessible analytics, simple architectures, reproducible environments, and data persistence done right.