The Symbian Foundation launched a new beta site offering participating developers (i.e. member companies) a tons of content such as platform release information, council charters, wikis, forums as well as access to the SDK, SCM (Mercurial), Bugzilla, tools, documents and FAQs. Commenting on the announcement, which BTW was made during the CTIA in Las Vegas,…
Survey Sez: LBS Developers Not Interested in WebOS, Symbian
According to recent research by Skyhook Wireless (the guys who work on Wi-Fi positioning systems), only 8% of location-based service developers will jump to the Palm Pre operating system, WebOS. The survey was conducted over 100 developers spread across six platforms: Windows Mobile, Symbian, Android, BlackBerry, Java and iPhone. Here are the main findings from…
iPhone OS 3.0 Unleashed to Devs, Shared with World
iPhone OS 3.0 is now in the hands of developers who are more than happy to show it off to the world. Plenty of new features to go over, including video recording, copy and paste, new landscape layouts for many apps, spotlight search, and all the other features announced (and unannounced) a few weeks ago.…
AT&T Launches Apps Beta Program
While manufacturers are either working hard on their own version of an on-device ‘App Store’, lets not forget about all of the carriers out there. They’re chomping at the bit to get in the game and make more money as well. To that end, AT&T has introduced its own Apps Beta Program. Developers simply submit…
iPhone OS 3.0 gets jailbroken, but not unlocked
We’re all eagerly awaiting Apple’s mid-year launch of the iPhone 3.0 OS. With new features like copy/paste support and stereo Bluetooth in tow, the next iPhone OS iteration is expected to make a big splash. And, it looks like the iPhone OS 3.0 firmware has already been jailbroken. Thanks to Russian iPhone developer Vortex, iPhone…
Samsung opens up the TouchWIZ platform; Announces Yahoo, Google and AccuWeather.com widgets
Samsung has finally did the thing I’ve been thinking about for some time – they’ve opened up their TouchWIZ platform to enable interested companies and individuals to bring their widgets to Samsung phones. UI Evolution is developing a set of developer tools for Samsung to support the easy development of TouchWIZ widgets. Based upon the…
Google Banning Tethering Apps from Android Market
If you’ve been hoping that Google and the Android Market would allow a truly ‘open’ experience… and have been getting tired of the banned apps that seem to flow down the pipe out of the Apple App Store… It looks like Google might be starting to head down that same road. According to Seth, an…
Apple Keeps Commission from Refunded Apps
If you were still feeling fuzzy-wuzzy for Apple after all the developer love at their OS 3.0 announcement, be prepared for disappointment. There’s apparently a clause in the App Store terms of service which states that not only will developers return the full cost when a return is demanded by a customer within 90 days…
Microsoft to charge developers for Windows Marketplace application updates
Apple may be failing to keep up with iPhone developers demanding timely iPhone application approvals and App Store payments, but at least Apple doesn’t charge iPhone developers a submission-fee every time they update their application. It seems that Microsoft, in their unquestioned wisdom, thinks it best to make Windows Mobile developers pay for every single…
O2’s Litmus video tour
O2 Litmus (O2’s community project dedicated to finding and nurturing the very best new mobile, wireless and internet-enabled applications and services) has released a video tour of the platform. You can view the video here: http://vimeo.com/3813960. The video explains the benefits of O2 Litmus for both developers and O2 customers in a clear and coherent…