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Whether you’re an avid Google+ user or just an on again/off again user, you’ll undoubtedly enjoy the latest update that Google has provided for its social networking application. The Google+ update brings the aesthetic look of Ice Cream Sandwich and we’re in love with the new look. The latest version of Google+ brings the following…
So you like the new Samsung Galaxy Note but are afraid its S Pen will be limited to very few apps. To be fair your fears are somewhat justified as there are only few options you can/will be able to choose from, including apps like Zen Brush, OmniSketch, Soonr, iAnnotate PDF and ComicBook. Luckily Samsung…
Oh, Logitech Revue, when will you give us value? The first set-top box with Google TV installed has suffered from sluggish sales and an eventual price slash to $99 to help move units. Still, what most people have been waiting for (if they haven’t lost interest completely) is the Android 3.1 update and the introduction…
Twilio, the cloud communications company we’ve already talked about in the past, is bringing its Twilio Voice solution to Europe. The company opened an office in East London to allow developers to buy local UK telephone numbers instantly from the Twilio.com website and Twilio’s API. The service is used to build web and mobile applications…
Our first glimpse of Android apps running on the PlayBook was a little choppy, but now that RIM has opened up the App Player to developers, we’ve got a chance to see performance closer to what was demoed at BlackBerry World. RIM’s Chris Smith walked us through some of the apps that they’ve got working…
Google and Samsung recently took the wraps off of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and to say that the search giant has stepped up its game is an understatement. Ice Cream Sandwich covers many of the bases that Android needed tending to, and keeps going. This update shows that the Android operating system is maturing…
appMobi, which we know for their HTML5-based development tools, launched its new PhoneGap Mobile App XDK (X-platform Development Kit) that fully supports the open source PhoneGap mobile app development framework. The popular framework has been recently recommended by Facebook as the preferred way to create mobile apps for the Facebook Platform. PhoneGap XDK offers a…
Back at BlackBerry World, RIM had promised that a lot of the fancy user interface elements made by their Swedish branch would become available to BlackBerry developers. This week at DevCon 2011, RIM took some time to show off the library, called Cascades. During the keynote, they showed off just some of those UI bits,…
During a briefing on their involvement with Android on the PlayBook tablet, a RIM exec at DevCon 2011 made a somewhat bold statement: BlackBerry App World would be the first professional market for Android applications. This stemmed from a line of questioning around security – how does RIM propose to stop just about anybody from…
A big part of today’s announcements at the BlackBerry DevCon 2011 was OS 2.0 of RIM’s PlayBook tablet, or at least an early beta of it. The user interface has a few small tweaks, but the main reason for this release is to give developers something they can start loading Android apps into. We’re still…