2014 articles
After the American government warned users of the security risk posed by the recently discovered Java vulnerability that was being exploited in the wild, Oracle quickly came into action and posted a security update within 3 days of the news spreading worldwide.
More than 15000 apps were submitted for the Blackberry 10 platform in a matter of 37.5 hours, when RIM held Port-A-Thon events to promote developers to start porting their already existing Android apps to the Blackberry 10 app store. Among the rewards being given out was a chance to earn $100 up front if your app got approved for the Blackberry app store
Google is now allowing developers to directly respond to Google Play Store reviews, while making the users use their Google+ profile to remove anonymity.
Google is doing everything possible to make its Play Store more accessible for developers by allowing them to respond to user comments.
Facebook has announced Graph Search that allows users to search for contextual open graph data like photos, restaurants, games, music, movies etc., which have been liked by your friends.
Cloud app platform Parse has released an update which deeply integrates with Facebook’s latest SDK for Android, allowing you to take advantage of all of this new functionality in your apps.
Microsoft has released information about their upcoming embedded edition of Windows 8, and also a preview version of the OS.
In order to combat excessive bait and switch scammers trying to promote their apps by posting fake screenshots immediately after their apps are approved for the App Store, Apple has now stopped allowing developers from updating the screenshots until a legitimate binary update is posted accompanying them.
After finding a critical Java vulnerability that is already being exploited worldwide, the american government has asked all users to turn off Java in their respective browsers to avoid being held hostage to malicious software.
