By Shubhangi Shah

The smartphone space sans Android is inconceivable. Currently, over 2.5 billion mobile users use this operating system (OS), making it the most-used mobile OS, followed from afar by Apple’s iOS. Although it feels that Android has been here forever, the first smartphone, HTC Dream, only hit the shelves in 2008, about three years after search engine giant Google bought it.

 

By Catherine Knowles

Couchbase has announced that Couchbase Capella now fully manages and hosts a backend for mobile and IoT applications called Capella App Services. The enhanced offering is designed to make it easier for developers to design and deploy fast and resilient mobile applications that sync data between the cloud and devices, enabling applications to work regardless of whether they are online or offline.