While mobile developers may hope to strike it rich with the next Candy Crush Saga, the reality is that enterprise developers stand to make four times as much money building mobile apps than consumer-oriented developers do, according to research from VisionMobile. While money isn't everything, especially in developer land, for those interested in making a buck, consumer may be the wrong option for mobile developers.
Consumer Gets The Developer Love
Given the boom in consumer mobile, it's not surprising that developers have been flocking to it, as VisionMobile's survey shows:
Credit: VisionMobile 2013
Apple has stoked this consumer fever, touting $10 billion in developer payments and over 50 billion downloads from its popular App Store. Google, for its part, has also been minting money for developers, while foregoing some cash by shutting down some mobile advertising practices that made the Android mobile experience somewhat spammy.
The consumer, in other words, is king for both major mobile platforms.
Enterprise: Boring And Profitable
Or is it? The problem, as ReadWrite's Dan Rowinski noted earlier this year, "building apps for consumers is a very hit-or-miss business." For every Temple Run there are countless -- For more information read the original article here.
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.
Last January marked the launch of Code.org, a nonprofit that promotes computer-science education. Code.org launched Hour Of Code, a nationwide campaign that urged Americans to learn how to program. President Obama even recorded a video in support of the campaign. Nearly 15 million people responded to the call.
And that experience encapsulates what a whirlwind year it's been for the "learn to code" movement. In 2012, about 170,000 people—including New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg—resolved to learn to code in that year's Codecademy campaign. In 2013, 88 times that number actually did learn to code—and that's just in Code.org's campaign, which was one of many.
Demand for developers continues to rise, so this trend isn't showing signs of peaking yet. Here's why it took off in 2013.
High Demand
It's no wonder so many people are buying into learn-to-code campaigns. The technology industry is where the jobs are.
In 2010, there were 913,000 U.S. jobs for software developers, a number expected to grow by -- For more information read the original article here.
If you're in the market for a new job, you might want to consider the tech sector. According to LinkedIn, the most desirable skills in 2013 were dominated by tech.
LinkedIn took a look at the skills and employment history of over 259 million members to determine what the most popular skills were this year. Based off new jobs added by people with select skills and recruiter search activity, the company found that social media marketing led the way followed by mobile development, cloud and distributed computing, Ruby, Python and Perl coding languages, and statistical analysis.
Tech Is So Hot Right Now
This year put an increased emphasis on technical education that translated into the job market.
Free open online courses, often called MOOCs, became extremely popular in 2013, and a significant number of those programs focus on technical skills including programming and Web development. Students were able to become self-taught experts in some of the most marketable skills, and, especially in technical fields, job opportunities stemmed from completion of online courses.
A push to learn coding also put more attention on the importance of technical skills in the job market. <a class="colorbox" href="http://code.org/" -- For more information read the original article here.
Though Apple's FaceTime camera is designed to always illuminate the adjacent green light at the top of the screen, software has been written to separate the camera and light hardware, allowing both illegal -- and legal, the FBI has used similar software in criminal investigations -- ways.
While controlling a camera remotely has long been a source of concern to privacy advocates, conventional wisdom said there was at least no way to deactivate the warning light. New evidence indicates otherwise.A pair of students at Johns Hopkins examined Apple's webcam indicator [PDF] and discovered both how to disable the LED indicator, -- For more information read the original article here.
Marcus Thomas, former assistant director of the FBI's Operational Technology Division in Quantico, said in a recent story in The Washington Post that the FBI has been able to covertly activate a computer's camera — without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording — for several years.
