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How the Mobile Industry Is Similiar to Yesterday's PC Era Steve Vaughn writes about the similarities between today's mobile industry and yesterday's era of personal computing. Industry professionals should view the mobile market as immature and make strategic plans according to how the PC industry changed in the 1990s. |
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Apple Announces 45 Billion Apps Downloaded, $9 Billion to Developers Apple announced in its Q2 earnings call to investors this week that app downloads have passed the 45 billion milestone, only four months after hitting the 40 billion mark in January. To date, the company has paid out to developers more than $9 billion—half of that in the last year alone. |
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Will Mobile App Development Slow Due to New Privacy Laws? A recent extension to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act has mobile application developers scrambling to not only follow the new laws but also just to understand them—and the penalties that come with them. Some believe the laws can in fact be followed, but more time is needed to comply. |
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Growth of API Usage Sparks New Management Tools Open APIs have become not only available, but prevalent, giving capabilities to photo, video, messaging, mapping, music, and news outlets. ProgrammableWeb's directory of web service APIs now numbers more than 8,000. With increased API usage, the need for help managing APIs also is growing. |
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Applying Test-Driven Development to Android Development Test-driven development (TDD) is a cornerstone practice for agile development teams, but Android development poses some significant challenges to a test-driven approach. With the right testing framework, an Android development team can maintain velocity while following TDD practices. |
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Hubbl App's Spacebar Platform Uses Contextual Ads to Promote Apps Hubbl is an app that helps people discover other apps based on their interests. Through partnerships with content distributors, Hubbl’s B2B platform Spacebar will suggest apps based on the subject matter of the webpage the user is looking at—a sort of contextual advertising. Integration! |
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Java 8 Gets 2014 Release Date as Java 7 Patches Continue It's safe to say that Java 7 didn't go quite as smoothly as Oracle wanted since multiple major security flaws have been exposed since its release. Oracle's not taking any chances with the much-anticipated Java 8. They've recently announced a newly delayed March 2014 release date. |
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Stewardship in Agile Software Architecture and Design Software architects typically don’t own the products that individual teams are creating, yet they help define a cohesive approach to developing the products and are often responsible for defining how different products interoperate. Scott Sehlhorst looks at the idea of architecture stewardship. |
