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Today, RIM announced their upcoming operating system for smartphones – a re-jiggered version of the QNX OS on their PlayBook tablet called BBX. Backwards compatibility with classic BlackBerry applications was once in the cards, but RIM’s Alec Saunders has confirmed that Java apps did not make the cut. After trying to emulate the Java ME…
We’re mid-liveblog right now at the BlackBerry DevCon general session, but a press release just crossed the wire outlining RIM’s announcements for the show. BBX will support Adobe AIR 3.0, have a native SDK UI tool called Cascades, and a ton of HTML 5 support. Here’s the press release – we’ll have more soon!
It looks like Google is beginning to gear up for its upcoming developer conference for 2012 and the Google Code Blog suggests you save the dates of April 24th and 25th.With Ice Cream Sandwich and the Galaxy Nexus just a handful of hours away until the official announcement, we can only wonder what’s in store…
In a developer blog post similar to the one we saw prior to the OS 7 device launch, RIM described the displays for two upcoming BlackBerry devices. The 9380 (which we had seen in glimpses) will have a 3.2-inch 480 x 360 touchscreen in a 4:3 aspect ratio, much like the existing Torch 9800. The…
Adobe just announced its acquisition of HTML5 specialist Nitobi and font company Typekit. Purchasing these two companies is a pretty strategic move on the part Adobe, as it will offer the software giant better Web standards including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Now for those of you who don’t know who or what Nitobi and Typekit is, let…
Speech technology company Nuance Communications enhanced its developer program, now called NDEV Mobile, which comes with new services that will “make it easier than ever for developers to voice-enable apps with Nuance’s industry-leading speech technology.” The newly restructured program now has three tiers — silver, gold and emerald — to give “more choice and flexibility”…
RIM is gearing up to show off the Android app player for their PlayBook tablet next month at BlackBerry DevCon, but that hardly means they’re adopting Android wholesale. In fact, at a Romanian developer event, RIM engineers explained just some of the Android features we won’t be seeing in QNX 2.0 for the PlayBook: live…
Well, it looks like Google has taken another bite out of Apple, with its recent hiring of a Facebook iPad developer Jeff Verkoeyen. This brings to question if this move is from the long delayed release of the Facebook iPad app, which all users have been waiting for seemingly forever. It turns out that the…
With the Ice Cream Sandwich likely just weeks away, Google is getting Android developers ready for the impending update with some tips on how to optimize applications for phones and tablets alike for the next version of the mobile operating system. Google introduced the Fragment API in Honeycomb and we’ve been expecting them to be…
Barnes & Noble is teaming-up with mobile app development platform Appcelerator to accelerate the deployment of Appcelerator Titanium apps on NOOK Color. Under the terms of the deal, Titanium’s 200,000 mobile developers will get a fast track to publish apps in the NOOK Store, which reaches millions of customers (we don’t have the precise figures,…