We stay in the realm of mobile marketing but there are no acquisitions involved in this story. We’re talking about acquired-by-Google AdMob, which announced an enhanced offering for its developers and publishers. First of all, they said their Android and iPhone SDKs have been updated. Android developers can now use AdMob’s rich media ad units…
Sony Ericsson’s X10 Mini UI ported to Mytouch 3G
There are many different flavors of Android homescreens. We’ve seen HTC Sense, Motorola MotoBlur, Samsung’s TouchWiz, the ‘grid’ UI on Huawei’s Pulse, and the Time and Mediascape UI’s from Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10, just to name a few. Another UI from Sony Ericsson, similar to the original X10, is the X10 Mini. The X10 Mini’s…
Microsoft gets official on Windows Phone 7 cut-and-paste and unlocked emulator goodies
There’s a lot of chatter going on right now about whether or not cut-and-paste and true multi-tasking will ever make it into Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Series platform. Well, today Microsoft themselves are getting a little more official – if just as vague – on the whole issue of which features may, or may not,…
Droid Eris Finally rooted, and getting some Android 2.1 love
This was going to happen at some point, the Droid Eris has been rooted! Unlike many of the rooted Android phones, the Eris already has a ROM ready for installation that we’d written about a couple weeks back. So, Eris users, if you’re tired of waiting for Verizon’s supposed update, then sit back, read through…
BlackBerry Push Services Now Available for Developers
Back at the BlackBerry Developer Conference, RIM announced that it would be offering free push APIs to application devs to allow them to use the same mechanism that enables the BlackBerry’s world-class e-mail, and today, it’s available for all. If you’ve yet to see it in action, push is essentially server-initiated content fetching – that…
A look at Windows Phone 7 Xbox Live gaming hub
One of the cool features baked right into Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 is its hub-centric Xbox Live games panel. By connecting Windows Phone 7 directly to your Xbox Live account, you can keep up to date on your Xbox Live account – points, avatars, unlocked achievements, etc. And, because the Windows Phone 7 platform is…
Skyhook Announces SpotRank – Allows Mobile App Devs to Work with Hotspots
Location technology developer, Skyhook, has just announced their latest product for developers: SpotRank. Basically, it involves condensing the location data they gather from a bajillion different sources into an API usable by third party developers. There are over half a billion 100-meter “spots” which are measuredNot only does SpotRank allow apps to see which spots…
Microsoft releases Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools, shows off ease of app development
Today is the start of Microsoft’s MIX10 conference in Las Vegas, and there’s some good stuff coming down the Windows Phone 7 pipeline. First up, Microsoft has announced that they have made their Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools available for download through their MSDN download center. The tools will give eager devs a chance to…
Hands-on video: 3D gaming gets serious on webOS
We were at the Game Developer’s Conference this week in San Francisco and we got some good hands-on time with the latest games for webOS. The platform was originally launched with a relatively simple software development kit: it was based around Internet standards like HTML and CSS in order to target the millions of web…
webOS Paid Apps Coming to Canadian, Mexican and European App Catalogs
webOS developers have received an e-mail regarding the international launch of paid applications in Palm’s App Catalog – specifically, that markets in Canada and Mexico will open at the same time as Europe. Earlier tips already hinted at a European webOS App Catalog launching sometime late this month, so that gives us some timeline of…