One of the companies showing off at Showstoppers was Touchatag, which you might know as tikitag; they had been working on a 2D barcode scanner and RFID detector which allowed for contactless close-range communication between tagged objects and your phone. In addition to their rebranding, Touchatag is now offering an extended API for developers to…
Windows Announces Marketplace for Mobile, Preloaded on Windows Mobile 6.5
Nokia‘s not the only one announcing a mobile app store at Mobile World Congress 2009 – Microsoft, hot on the heels of their Windows Mobile 6.5 launch, have opened up on their own plans for on-device software browsing and downloading. There are more than a few advantages for Windows Mobile developers: An easily discovered on-device…
Palm shows off UMTS version of the Pre; Announces webOS development book
Palm is showing off the UMTS version of its Pre smartphone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Not much is known at this stage, but some rumors suggest the Treo maker is in talks with Vodafone, which would certainly help the company access many European markets. As for the release date, we’ve only heard…
Google Setting Price Cap for Apps in the Android Market
Remember the $999 I Am Rich app for the iPhone? The thing was completely ridiculous. The whole purpose of the app was to give ‘rich’ folks an extremely overpriced app to buy, just so that they could show off how much money they have. The app didn’t do anything. Hit the icon, and all you…
Adobe and Nokia announce $10 million Open Screen Project fund to push Flash apps development
It’s the way of the future. Apple has its iFund, Google its developers challenge and now Nokia along with Adobe is joining the wave. The two companies unveiled $10 million Open Screen Project fund to push development of applications and services using the Adobe Flash platform. The new fund is a result of the industry-wide…
Big Nerd Ranch Android Developer ‘Bootcamp’ Coming in March
Are you a developer that has been itching to learn more and start developing apps for Android? If you are, and aren’t afraid to drop some coin on solid training, Big Nerd Ranch is holding an ‘Android Bootcamp’ from March 16th – 20th in Atlanta. The bootcamp will take you through everything Android, from a…
Apple looking to keep iPhone jailbreaking protected by DMCA
Apple may have so far given the iPhone jailbreak community a good bit of leash to play with, but that doesn’t mean the iPhone maker is all for people opening up the iPhone’s filesystem to third-party code. Jailbreaking the iPhone serves to remove the any software protections put in place to keep users from modifying…
Google preparing paid Android apps for next week!
We love it when a rumor comes together. Even better when one of our own rumors pans out. Earlier this week, we mentioned a rumor that had Google pushing out premium Android applications through the Android Market before the week’s end. The web was ablaze with speculation that paid Android apps would go live this…
Firefox Mobile (Fennec) goes live on HTC Touch Pro!
Welp, it’s finally happened. The long wait for Mozilla’s answer to the third-party mobile browsers from Skyfire and Opera has finally come to a head with the release of Firefox Mobile (codename: Fennec), in pre-release form, on the HTC Touch Pro! We had expected the Fennec team to go live with their milestone release of…
Latest Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshots confirm Outlook Live, Marketplace, and My Phone branding
Just yesterday, Microsoft re-branded their SkyBox phone data-synchronization service as “My Phone.” Today, we see the cloud-sync service hanging out with the other WinMo applications in the latest Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshot leak. Most impressive in the new screenshots is the refreshed Windows Media Player UI. With a more finger-friendly interface, the new WM Player…