WorkLight launched WorkLight Mobile Platform 4.0, enabling companies to develop smartphone and tablet applications using a combined (hybrid) coding of native and web languages within the same application. As a result, it is said that developers get “unmatched flexibility and richness of user experience.” Also included in this release is support for unified push notifications…
Android 2.2 Froyo on more than 50% of all devices, Gingerbread makes its debut
Google has updated their Android version numbers on the Developers site, and Froyo is officially now running on more than 50% of all devices. In addition to the Froyo domination, Gingerbread has officially made its debut. Android 2.2 Froyo now accounts for 51.8% of all devices now, with Android 2.3 Gingerbread taking a very small…
Google Goggles updated, now snappier and kicks ass at Sudoku
Google has just updated their Goggles application for Android with some speed enhancements as well as some cool new features, like newspaper, magazine ad recognition, and even Sudoku puzzle solving. Version 1.3 of Goggles for Android allows for faster barcode scanning of products. Similar to the basic Barcode scanner for Android, all one needs to…
Android ‘Ice Cream’ to hit this summer as Android 2.4 OS?
While we’ve only seen the Nexus S and the Sony Ericsson Arc running Gingerbread at this point, the next version of Android aimed at smartphones may not be too far away. We’ve heard that the next version of the OS will be called Ice Cream, but that was about it. While we still know very…
The BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet’s One Glaring Flaw: Bridge
We’ve seen an awful lot of RIM’s first tablet, the BlackBerry PlayBook this week at CES. Now that they’re finally letting us actually touch the thing, most of the initial impressions have been positive, but one really big problem has come up: you can’t fetch e-mail or access other personal information management data (address book,…
AppMakr expands to Android and Windows Phone; Allows anyone to make multi-platform mobile apps
The do-it-yourself mobile app service AppMakr.com is adding Android and Windows Phone 7 support, allowing anyone to make multi-platform mobile apps. Up until now, AppMakr.com only supported Apple’s iOS, and was used to create more than 3500 apps, including the very popular applications for the PGA Tour, the Perez Hilton blog, the Harvard Business Review,…
Android 3.0 Honeycomb first impressions
Android has come a long way since the days of the G1, and since then has taken the mobile space by storm and is now on hundreds of devices around the world. The newest version of the popular OS, Android 3.0 Honeycomb was developed for devices with larger screens in mind, namely tablets. From the…
U-verse App for iPad Remote Controls DVR, Displays Extra Content
At AT&T’s CES developer event today, they showed off some work they’ve done with the iPad U-verse app, with a new feature called ComplemenTV. When paired up with a TV via Wi-Fi using DLNA, the iPad automatically showed extra information on whatever show was being watched (like links to related stuff on Amazon). It could…
BlackBerry PlayBook’s Web Multimedia Showed off by RIM on Video
RIM has provided another demo of the BlackBerry PlayBook demo to follow up on their comparison with the iPad. This time, they’re showing how various web video formats run smooth as butter in the native web browser, and how the Facebook experience is just like on a desktop, complete with chat and games. Take a…
Samsung Bada SDK 1.2.1 comes with in-app advertising support
Samsung has updated its Bada SDK with support for in-app advertising, allowing mobile app developers to monetize their work by displaying ads. And here’s a trick – Samsung is not taking its cut, leaving 100% of the ad revenue to the developer! Before you go “WOW, that’s cool!” it’s fair to point few things: Bada…