Black Duck has announced its fifth annual Open Source Rookies of the Year, revealing that JavaScript and mobile dominated the focus of the Top 10 open-source projects last year. “As we look at all ...

Security firm Trend Micro has discovered an attack on home routers that involves malicious JavaScript, a mobile website, and a mobile device such as a smartphone. This attack has been taking place ...

Facing a crucible of providing more sophisticated apps in shorter cycles, mobile front-end developers will be forced to rely on composition -- using prebuilt code components instead of coding all ...

Development tool maker Syncfusion Inc. recently updated its Essential Studio 2014 suite of tools with 27 new JavaScript libraries aimed at mobile app developers. The new widgets for UI components such ...

Citing rival MongoDB Inc.’s recent decision to phase out support for its mobile database, Couchbase Inc. today is doubling down with updates to its Couchbase Mobile platform aimed at supporting edge ...

JavaScript was originally developed as a browser-agnostic scripting language, but recent research reveals it is becoming the lingua franca for mobile development. “Its ability to render rich results ...

JavaScript is the second-largest contributor to page weight, behind images, which means it can play a major role in slowing down the speed of your mobile site. Here's how you can reduce your reliance ...

Salesforce.com has attracted one million developers to its platform and is now making a push into the mobile market with a new hybrid environment that allows developers to use JavaScript to update ...

Parse, the Y Combinator-backed startup that powers the back-end for mobile apps like Band of the Day and Hipmunk, is rolling out support for mobile web apps too. The San Francisco startup has a new ...

Apple brought huge JavaScript performance improvements to Mobile Safari in March of this year, but those benefits didn’t extend to Web apps saved to a user’s home screen. iOS 5 will remedy that ...