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Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and Managing Director Steven VanRoekl have introduced new suite of tools designed to open up FCC data and spur innovation in the public and private sector.
The suite of tools released by the FCC includes a number of APIs that enable communication between independent databases — for use by developers [...]
By: Mike Sachoff in FCC
Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Microsoft has released an updated application security tool kit for developers.
The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Tool kit (EMET) offers users the ability to deploy security technologies to arbitrary applications.
The Microsoft Security Research & Defense blog offers more details. “This helps prevent vulnerabilities in those applications (especially line of business and 3rd party apps) from successfully being [...]
By: Mike Sachoff in Microsoft
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Finnish game developer Rocket Pack has introduced Rocket Engine, a professional game development platform for the web.
Built by and for professional game developers, the Rocket Engine is a fully integrated solution for plugin-free browser game development. The game engine is fully compatible with all major browsers and social gaming platforms, including the iPhone, iPad and [...]
By: Mike Sachoff in Game Developers
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
AOL has purchased mobile application developer Rally Up to improve its mobile application offerings.
For the first time, AOL mobile applications will consist not only of mobile versions of its desktop and web offerings, but also include new products that launch first on mobile devices.
Rally Up will be based in AOL’s new West Coast office in [...]
By: Mike Sachoff in AOL, Mobile Developers
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Mobile application developers can now use the WorkLight Platform to create and manage apps for BlackBerry OS 5 and OS 6 devices.
With this latest addition to its support of iOS and Android devices, WorkLight now allows businesses to cover all three major smartphones with a single platform.
“As RIM continues to launch new devices and technologies, [...]
By: Mike Sachoff in BlackBerry
Friday, August 27th, 2010
Apple has introduced a new payments and financial module for developers in iTunes Connect.
The new module offers developers details on financial reports and payments. From a dashboard, developers can get information including last payment, amount owed, latest monthly earnings, a transaction history, unit sales and payment trends.
Other new features include:
*Reduction in the thresholds required to [...]
By: Mike Sachoff in Apple
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Qualcomm has introduced Qualcomm Services Labs (QSL), created to develop and introduce new services and applications that use mobile technology.
QSL and its products will focus on mobile innovation by developing services and applications in five main areas native to the mobile experience:
*Communication (keeping you connected in new ways)
*Information/Entertainment (delivering meaningful, captivating content)
*Discovery (personalized and context-aware [...]
By: Mike Sachoff in Qualcomm
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Flurry has introduced AppCircle Rewards, an add-on solution for Apple iOS game developers using AppCircle.
AppCircle Rewards enables game makers to integrate their own virtual currency systems into AppCircle, Flurry’s recommendation-driven application cross selling network, to reward application downloads and increase revenue.
While AppCircle Rewards was conceived for game publishers with virtual currency, the solution works equally [...]
By: Mike Sachoff in Game Developers
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Intel and Nokia have opened a joint lab focused on developing 3-D experiences on mobile devices.
The lab called the Nokia Joint Innovation Center is partnership with Oulu University in Finland.
The lab is aligned with the MeeGo open source platform recently launched by Intel and Nokia.
“The University of Oulu’s focus on future telecommunications solutions as well [...]
By: Mike Sachoff in Intel, Nokia
Friday, August 20th, 2010
Google said today it has introduced some new features to its Analytics for Developer pages on Google Code.
“Since we now have 3+ major sections on our site, it was time to provide landing pages for all the news and updates relevant to Tracking Code configuration, Management API, and Export API,” Google says on its analytics [...]
By: Mike Sachoff in Google