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Mozilla offers app to create Web pages on smartphones

It's for Android devices and available currently in four languages: Bengali, Brazilian Portuguese, English and Indonesian
Parse opens up SDKs to Apple, Android developers

The Facebook-owned cloud platform for mobile apps will first offer up kits for Apple and Android, with kits for JavaScript, PHP, and others to follow
GitHub launches desktop client to lure more developers

The GitHib desktop can branch copies of a software project and then merge user changes back into the project
Microsoft retools F# for Visual Studio 2015

Visual F# Power Tools 2.0.0 features support for F# 4.0 constructs
Digium helps mobile apps communicate better with new SDKs

Developers no longer need to be signaling experts to add in-app communications features
Once-declining Java cements its lead in language popularity index

Last year's Java 8 release boosted the aging language, helping it open up a big lead over C

Stop the funeral! Objective-C is alive and kicking

Developers still value Apple's now-legacy language for iOS and Mac app dev, and the transition Swift will be gradual
Sick of Flash security holes? HTML5 has its own

Web browsers and HTML5 technologies bring their own weaknesses to the world of Internet apps
Why R? The pros and cons of the R language

Package ecosystem and graphics are strengths; security and memory management are weaknesses
When it comes to mobile apps, IT is ‘slow, poor and weak'

Are your users getting the mobile support they need from your IT team or are they bringing their own apps?
Android Pay likely at Google I/O as Samsung preps its own service

Google is expected to reveal details about Android Pay at its annual I/O conference this week.
Java at 20: The programming juggernaut rolls on

Java has joined C and C++ as a programming language that has stood the test of time