Word has it the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice are days away from figuring out which one will be participate in an inquiry at Apple for their recent policy of disallowing third-party development tools to create iPhone apps. Although an inquiry doesn’t necessarily mean a full-blown investigation will take place, the possibility…
iPad, newer iPhones, hacked and jailbroken – Multitask on your iPad now!
Ahh, we love the smell of fresh jailbreaks in the morning. There’s no better way to kick off the work week than with news of a new iPhone OS jailbreak solution from the iPhone Dev Team. Following on their iPad jailbreak preview and iPhone OS 4.0 jailbreak demo, the venerable iPhone OS hackers have announced…
Devs get new Windows Phone 7 tools
We’re getting tantalizingly closer to the release of Windows Phone 7 and Microsoft has just unveiled some more developer tools in order to beef up the applications before Microsoft’ operating system hits the shelves. According to Microsoft, The Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP Refresh includes: * This release has been tested to work with the…
junaio for Android available in closed beta
junaio, that other popular augmented reality platform (in addition to Layar), is about to “go Android.” The application is already available for select developers, which are part of the closed beta program. The wider availability — when everyone will be able to grab the application — is set for mid-May. The Android version will come…
Symbian unveils new web app development tools
Symbian released its web application development tools, making application development on the platform “as easy as creating a webpage.” In other words, any web developer with a knowledge of HTML, CSS and some JavaScript can create mobile apps that run on Symbian smartphones, including the newly unveiled Nokia N8. The good thing about these tools…
Official Apps2SD coming to Android “soon”
Android has suffered from limited internal storage for applications since it’s early days, and that problems still continues today. Only a select few phones have a decent amount of internal storage, which has prompted developers to create the option for rooted Android devices. Google has said it’s been working on an official fix for this,…
PayPal’s Open Mobile Payments now available for iPhone developers in beta
After successfully launching its Mobile Payments Library to select developers (private beta) during the Macworld 2010, PayPal is now opening up its mobile payment platform to the wider community. Anyone can download the library from x.com and add checkout functionality for physical goods and services sold through apps on the iPhone, without having to worry…
Vodafone reveals UK winner of its AppStar competition
Vodafone have announced the local winners of its Vodafone AppStar competition, a list of eight mobile apps that will now fight to become the best app in Europe and claim a share of the €1 million Vodafone AppStar prize fund. In the UK, JoggerTracker – an application developed by Mark Salvin that uses GPS to…
iPhone, BlackBerry Won’t Last Another Five Years – Kaspersky
Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of a popular antivirus company, said at a Infosec that closed operating systems, like iPhone, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone, won’t last in the long run because they don’t embrace open-source, like Android and Symbian do. That’s an awfully heavy-handed statement, considering the ample success of iPhone and BlackBerry these days, though Android…
Steve Jobs Outlines Why Flash is Wrong for iPhone
Apple and Adobe have been getting pretty snarky lately over Flash on iPhone, and now His Holiness Steve Jobs has personally stepped into the debate. The letter outlines six major points as to why Flash isn’t on iPhone: it’s proprietary, users aren’t missing video without Flash, Flash isn’t secure, it has an impact on battery…