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In 3 weeks Apple’s new guidelines for in app purchases are due to go into effect and section 11.13 of the infinitely long document of legal jargon has been causing a lot of scandals. It stated that publishers, and in this case they list creators of magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, video, had to offer…
Mobile social gaming network OpenFeint launched GameFeed, touting it as cross platform news feed with real time gaming updates from players’ OpenFeint network. Still in private beta, the new service is designed to “foster social competition,” allowing developers to expose their game’s community through a new drop-in widget with a single line of code. Players…
Mobile gaming company ngmoco is calling all developers to get ready for the upcoming launch of its social network Mobage by opening the Sandbox developer environment. The Sandbox allows developers using the ngCore mobile and social game development engine to test and develop features leveraging the robust Mobage platform. Already, Mobage counts more than 100…
The legendary iPhone Dev-Team’s MuscleNerd got his hands on the early release of iOS 5 yesterday, and has already jailbroken it. Cydia and any apps, like MyWi and iSSH, are all working with “not too many surprises” in the process. On the more official side of things, iOS 5 includes a new app caklled Reminders,…
We already knew that the T-Mobile G2X was blazing fast thanks to its NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor but it looks like the guys over at XDA have managed to give the handset a speed boost. Using a custom kernel, G2X users can now overclock their processors to an eye-bleeding 1.5GHz. While there are similar…
HTCdev.com was launched today at the Uplinq conference, giving developers a chance to tailor their apps for HTC’s particular handset customizations. The biggest thing HTC is offering through the new dev portal is API access to the pen accessory launched with the Flyer tablet. There are a ton of possibilities there, considering within recent years…
HTC EVO 4G users will finally start receiving a OTA update on June 6th to get a taste of Android Gingerbread, but if you just can’t wait until next Monday you can manually update your phone starting tomorrow. The massively popular handset has been running on Android 2.2. Froyo since last August, so it’s a…
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 owners may be surprised when you turn the tablet on for the first time, as it will be running stock Android Honeycomb. Apparently the TouchWiz UX isn’t ready for prime time yet and it will come through a OTA update later. When we first got word about this, I thought Samsung…
Many have been waiting to see what Microsoft will be doing with its latest version of the Windows operating system and we just found out. Unsurprisingly, the demo shows a very Windows Phone-like UI that looks great, but apparently only for certain applications. The user interface looks like a radical change from the standard Windows…
Attention Motorola Droid Pro users: Android 2.3 Gingerbread is now officially available for your device. The Droid aimed at BlackBerry users can now take advantage of the new features that come with the latest build of Android. Motorola Droid Pro owners may have had to wait almost a full 6 months to get the update,…