Nokia has launched a competition for UK Mobile Apps developers, and is offering a decent wedge of cash to the winner – how does £20,000 sound to you?! The competition is called “Calling All Innovators” and will have 5 categories: Social location Business and productivity Communications and social networking Games Just for fun Apparently each…
Vodafone Launches a Combined €1,000,000 Prize Fund to Find the Best Mobile Widgets
As if the launch of Vodafone 360 (see here) wasn’t enough, Vodafone are going big on a talent search for the best Mobile Widgets! At its international Developer Event today, Vodafone is announcing the launch of a two-phased competition to find the most innovative and useful mobile widgets, giving two victorious developers the chance to…
Sprint adds some Android love on its developer website
Sprint has announced support for the Android platform on its developer website. The new portion of the site is designed to “give developers the tools needed to create innovative applications for Android-powered devices.” Developers utilizing the site and tools will easily be able to create and test applications for the Android platform on the Sprint…
About freaking time: Mobilizy proposes an open standard for augmented reality data
Augmented reality applications like Layar or Wikitude are awesome, but they are inherently flawed since all the effort put forth at creating data for one particular application can’t be read in a different application. Mobilizy, creator of the first augmented reality application for mobile phones known as Wikitude, is proposing to the augmented reality consortium…
Apple launches AppStore Resource Center, falls on its face
iPhone developers the world over have been up in arms recently over Apple’s handling of iPhone application submissions and approvals for the AppStore. Apple has been criticized for keeping their AppStore certification process as transparent as coal and basically giving some iPhone developers the cold shoulder. So, in an attempt to right its AppStore wrongs,…
HTC issues HTC Touch Diamond2 hotfix for LED bug
Got an HTC Touch Diamond2 in your pocket? Well, first of all, you’re one lucky S.O.B. Second, you’ve probably noticed that the LED indicator light up towards the top of your Diamond2 sometimes fails to turn “green” when the battery is topped off. After paying handsomely for one of this year’s hottest Windows Mobile touchscreen…
iPhone Dev Team cracks iPhone 3.1 OS, except for iPhone 3GS
iPhone and iPhone 3G owners still waiting to update their jailbroken smartphone to the iPhone 3.1 OS are in luck today. The iPhone Dev Team has just released their latest PwnageTool update! With the new PwnageTool utility, iPhone users can update to jailbroken iPhone 3.1 OS firmware without worrying about losing the jailbreak (which allows…
Android SDK 1.6 Released
Those waiting for a big ol’ bite of the Donut code branch from Android probably won’t have to wait too much longer, as the software development kit for version 1.6 of Google’s mobile operating system has just been released. What’s in store? Support for different screen resolutions, types, and sizes Support for CDMA Quick Search…
More than 1,000 developers register on Verizon Developer Community
When a big carrier like Verizon unveils its offering for developers, we see quite a few companies and individials applying to participate. On that note, the carrier announced that more than 1,000 developers have registered to become part of the VDC, only a month after the Verizon Developer Community (VDC) Conference. Verizon’s Apply Your Ideas…
Disable your Windows Mobile Standard phone’s Application Lock with ease
First, it’s important to know that this really only applies to WinMo fans with Windows Mobile Standard smartphones. What is Application Lock? The WM Standard operating system uses Application Lock to keep unqualified Windows Mobile applications from accessing core parts of the Windows Mobile platform. This essentially cripples apps without privileged signatures from running on…