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‘News’
Friday, July 30th, 2010
Slowly, and by invitation only, the Places API Google showed off earlier this year will start becoming accessible to more developers. Google announced yesterday that it’s started establishing contact with developers who want to work on check-in applications.
Thor Mitchell, a Maps API product manager, explained on the Google Geo Developers Blog, “I’m happy to say [...]
By: Doug Caverly in Google
Friday, July 30th, 2010
The Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), an alliance of telecommunications companies focused on building an open application platform, have announced its formation as a corporation.
The company has also announced it will partner with Joint Innovation Lab (JIL), accelerating the commercial launch of WAC-enabled application stores. The transaction is set to be completed in September 2010. WAC [...]
By: Mike Sachoff in Mobile Developers
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
If the Yahoo User Interface interests you, a new giveaway should be right up your alley. In return for just a question or couple of sentences, copies of Daniel Barreiro’s and Dan Wellman’s YUI 2.8: Learning the Library are being made available.
That book is currently selling for $71.08, so “free” is a pretty huge improvement. [...]
By: Doug Caverly in Contests, Yahoo
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Solid Documents, a developer of document reconstruction software, has introduced its latest release of its Solid Framework.Net Software Development Kit (SDK).
Version 7.0 gives developers more flexibility in developing applications with the SDK.
It includes tools, documentation and samples developers can reference to write, build, test and deploy .NET Framework applications. It is also designed to improve [...]
By: Mike Sachoff in Solid Documents
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Apple developers have something new to play with (yet again). Yesterday, Apple released another little scrap of data in the form of the iOS 4.1 Beta 2, so developers can now take a look at how it works and tinker some more with their apps.
Not a lot has been confirmed (or denied) yet – Apple [...]
By: Doug Caverly in Apple, iOS
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
The Walt Disney Company has announced it has agreed to acquire online social game developer Playdom.
Under the deal, Playdom shareholders will receive a total of $563.2 million, and a performance-linked earn-out of up to $200 million.
Playdom’s titles include Social City, Sorority Life, Market Street and Bolo, the company estimates it attracts 42 million active players [...]
By: Mike Sachoff in Disney, Social Games
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Developers who deal with media – whether that means the output of a single blogger or something like CNN – are in luck. Following a study of how the top 100 media sites do things, Facebook’s put together a list of tips that should help increase traffic numbers and user engagement.
Implementing the Like button is [...]
By: Doug Caverly in Facebook
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Google said today it is launching a licensing service for applications in the Android Market to better protect developers against unauthorized user of their applications.
The Android Developer blog offers more details. “This simple and free service provides a secure mechanism to manage access to all Android Market paid applications targeting Android 1.5 or higher. At [...]
By: Mike Sachoff in Android
Monday, July 26th, 2010
Although it doesn’t quite represent good news for developers in the sense that an acquisition or nice round of funding might, a fresh article in the New York Times may be a morale-booster just the same. The title and a quote within the piece make clear that social games are a big and promising business.
Let’s [...]
By: Doug Caverly in Zynga
Friday, July 23rd, 2010
SilverTouch has introduced an upgrade of it s iPhone development service and is offering application development services for Apple’s iPhone 4.
Using development tools as Objective-C and the Cocoa Touch framework they deliver A to Z iPhone application development services from concept to complete solutions. Newly announced Apple’s iOS 4 (or iPhone OS 4) possesses many [...]
By: Mike Sachoff in Apple, iPhone 4