If you’re like us, you’re probably in pins and needles as you wait for the iPhone Dev Team to finalize their iPhone OS 4.0 jailbreak method and push out a consumer-grade application. Granted, the iPhone OS 4.0 isn’t due to hit the iPhone until later this year (Summer), but the sooner we get confirmation that…
Big names and Android games, Google hires developer advocate for gaming
So Google finally realized that Android kind of sucks when it comes to gaming, eh? The big G has hired a developer advocate for gaming. I guess giving free phones away wasn’t good enough, (and I’m still bitter I’m not getting a new phone for Google I/O). They are slowly realizing they need to tryyy.…
Adobe preparing legal assault on Apple over Flash feud
The conflict between Apple and Adobe is heating up the point where the duo’s feud over Adobe’s Flash technology is starting to become entertaining. On the one side, we have Apple, who refuses to let any of Adobe’s Flash technology come near their iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad ecosystem. In the other corner, we have Adobe crying foul…
Firefox Mobile Hacked to Run on webOS
Firefox has been running on the Nokia N900 for some time now and is coming soon to Android, but we have yet to see it find its way to any other platforms yet. Well, the mobile browser has been shoehorned into a Palm Pre, thanks to a Mozilla developer named Dave Townsend. Before you get…
Vodafone 360 Shop opens doors to developers through JIL.org website
Vodafone has announced that developers can publish apps to the Vodafone 360 Shop through the JIL.org website. For those of you that don’t know, JIL stands for Joint Innovation Lab, which Vodafone has a particular spin on for their Vodafone 360 offering (think social networking/apps mashup service, and you’re about there…). Through JIL.org, developers can…
iPhone OS 4.0 Houses Car Integration?
iPhone OS 4.0 has within an application that, when hooked up to a video out, shows this kind of user interface. After digging around through some APIs, like ones named IAPSimpleRemoteCarButtonNotification and IAPSimpleRemoteCarButtonTypeKey, we’re led to believe that these iPod Accessory Protocols will enable car accessories for music control. Another hook would enable handsfree commands,…
Upcoming Developer Webcast to Feature BlackBerry Push Services
Attention BlackBerry Developers… Just received a note in my inbox from RIM. They’re going to run yet another webcast for developers on April 13th, from 2 – 3PM EST. Yes, that’s TOMORROW! The topic? BlackBerry Push Services. In the webcast you’ll learn how to: Push any type of data, text or images without restrictions. Developers…
Did you know that iPhone OS 4.0 makes your iPhone work with iPad Keyboard Dock?
Did you know that the iPhone 3GS will work with the iPad Keyboard Dock? Well, consider yourself put on notice. Steve Jobs was so busy talking up the multitasking and iAd features of the iPhone OS 4.0 on Thursday’s keynote stage that he apparently forgot to mention that the next major iteration of the iPhone…
iPhone OS 4.0 gets jailbroken, for really this time
It hasn’t yet been a full 24 hours since Apple unveiled their iPhone OS 4.0 to the world, but the iPhone Dev Team has already jailbroken the firmware, complete with video evidence that they’ve managed to open up the latest iPhone OS file system. We first caught wind of an iPhone 4.0 jailbreak yesterday, from…
iPhone OS 4.0 already jailbroken – Jailbreak beats OS 4.0 launch! [Update: No, no it isn’t]
The iPhone OS 4.0 was unveiled today, showing off some really cool features – which should have been available years ago, to be honest – that will finally make the iPhone 3GS as close to a completely functional smartphone as we dare hope for. But, we’ll all have to wait until Summer 2010 before the…