Guess this was expected following the unveiling of the BlackBerry Partners Fund. Research In Motion (RIM) announced plans to launch an annual developer conference to “provide commercial and corporate developers from around the world with opportunities to advance their skills and knowledge in building powerful, world-class applications on the market-leading BlackBerry platform.” The first BlackBerry…
Apple iPhone SDK Beta 5 now available
The Beta 5 version of the iPhone SDK is now out. Unlike the previous release, this one doesn’t bring much new to the table. However, tweaks to the developers tools and some bug fixes should be more than enough for any iPhone/iPod Touch developer out there to update. This fifth beta release of the iPhone…
Chinese handwriting recognition spotted in iPhone 2.0 OS beta
With more mobile subscribers than there are people living in the US, China’s mobile market is a force to be reckoned with. So, it makes sense that Apple is still pursuing the Chinese market for their heralded iPhone. The newest revelation gleaned from the iPhone 2.0 OS points toward some handwriting recognition support for its…
Germans working on smell-o-phone
It just won’t die. The idea of sending various scents and odors along with your mobile-message isn’t novel and it looks like it’s not going to go away any time soon. A group of German tech developers have announced that they’ve patented hardware that would allow mobile phone users to send scents along with SMS…
Sun: We’re still gunning for Java (JVM) on the Apple iPhone
Call them what you want, but you can’t call Sun Microsystems a bunch of quitters. They are a persistent lot. Even after Apple’s announcement that they don’t want Java on the iPhone, Sun is pushing to get Apple to agree to letting the iPhone play nice with a Java JVM (Java Virtual Machine). “We’ve expressed…
RIM looking to hire Apple iPhone software developer?
Like they say, “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.” At least that’s what is seems like RIM is doing by looking to hire software developers for the Apple iPhone. A new internal job listing suggests that RIM is looking to bring its BlackBerry software to the iPhone – possibly even allowing the iPhone to…
HTC: Video update still on the way – HTC boosting video performance
Remember all the hoopla that HTC was caught up in a few months back? Right, well all the petition-signing and class-action lawsuit-filing from angry HTC customers looking to have full video acceleration on their flagship HTC smartphones paid off. HTC gave in and promised to deliver a software update for their flagship handsets that should…
Newest iPhone SDK beta could allow applications and processes to run in background
It’s not everyday that we see even a modicum of concern from Cupertino regarding public (by which I mean the blogosphere’s) opinion on any Apple product. That said, it’s good to see that the newly released iPhone SDK beta could allow applications to run processes in the background – opening the door for true multi-tasking…
New iPhone SDK Beta out, now with OpenGL ES 3D graphics support
The new iPhone SDK Beta 4 is out. Apple invites all interested developers to download it and take advantage of the OpenGL ES support which is now included in the iPhone simulator. This way you’ll actually see how iPhone can render all weird graphics ideas you may have for your apps. June couldn’t come fast…
PWN your iPhone from a Windows machine – PwnageTool available for Windows users
All you Windows-using iPhoners out there can join the Pwnage club with the release of winpwn. Just like the Mac-only PwnageTool released by the iPhone Dev Team, winpwn allows you to “pwn” your iPhone using your Windows machine. Pwn-ing your iPhone requires that you build a custom IPSW (firmware/OS) bundle and upload it to your…