Nokia said today its Ovi Store has grown nearly eight times over the last year and reaches up to 5 million downloads per day driven by by the latest Symbian devices – the Nokia N8, Nokia C6-01, Nokia C7 and Nokia E7 – which account for about 15 percent of the daily downloads. Nokia’s new

Adobe has introduced new tooling and framework support in Flash Builder 4.5 software for developing, testing and launching mobile apps on Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS and iOS platforms. Flex 4.5, an open source framework, includes new support for building mobile applications for Android, and support for BlackBerry Tablet OS and iOS platforms is expected in

Nexage a provider of mobile advertising tools for publishers and app developers, has announced it has reached 100 percent uptime for more than one year on its platform. Nexage products work across mobile web sites and BlackBerry, iPhone, iPad, and Android applications, processing ~4 Billion impressions monthly. While the platform’s scalability has been documented in

Nokia has introduced Nokia Web Tools for Series 40 devices allowing developers to creae rich, light weight web apps. Developers can use the Ovi Browser with Nokia Web Tools for Series 40. Nokia Web Tools provides developers with a new way to leverage standard web technologies by allowing anyone who can build a web page

Barnes & Noble said today its Nook Developer team is introducing new services and resources aimed at speeding up the launch for applications for its Nook Color. The company said it is focusing on offering reading-centric apps to users that improve the reading experience on the Nook Color. Barnes & Noble has plans for a

Novell announced today the availability of Mono for Android, a tool for developing Microsoft .NET apps for the Android platform using Microsoft Visual Studio. Novell is enabling Microsoft .NET and C# developers using Visual Studio and other environments to use a common code base to create applications for mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets,

Zipline Games, a new mobile games company, has announced the first beta of its Moai game development platform. Moai offers mobile game developers a open-source SDK for developing IOS and Android games in Lua with all the features and performance of native development. Moai Cloud expands the Lua heritage with flexible hosting and scalable cloud

HP has announced it is giving developers in its Early Access program, access to its webOS 3.0 SDK. The webOS 3.0 SDK allows developers to create apps for HP TouchPad and the next-generation of webOS devices. Features include: *Enyo, the new framework that supports new and future webOS form factors *Leverage core webOS features like

PapayaMobile has announced that Android’s In -App billing is now available on its social gaming network. PapayaMobile will also integrate Android’s In-App billing into its Social SDK and Game Engine products, offering Android developers access to monetization tools. Papaya says the key reason why developers are currently finding iPhone to be a better monetization platform