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If you’re into the hacking thing, we have great news for you. T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II now officially has support for the wildly popular CyanogenMod 10.1 builds. The new ROM is only a nightly build, so it isn’t stable. For those of you who don’t know, Magenta’s Samsung Galaxy S II carries a Qualcomm processor instead…
While the Korean giant has its own mobile app/content store, Samsung Apps, it’s still Google Play that most users turn to download stuff. Sure enough, there are certain cases when Samsung is offering some premium game for free, but that’s more of an exception than the rule. The problem Samsung faces is that its app…
Dropbox is releasing new APIs for iOS and Android that is supposed to allow developers to synchronize their apps with the cloud service. Simply put, this release makes including Dropbox in apps much easier. This is a pretty bold move from Dropbox as it tries to become more than just a typical cloud storage company,…
Microsoft released Windows Phone 7.8 SDK, bringing Live Tiles to the mix. Sadly, there are no new APIs included, once again proving version 7.8 is more of a cosmetic update (rather than substantial upgrade of the platform). The SDK update adds Windows Phone 7.8 512MB and 256MB emulators, as well as Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1…
The Developer Economics 2013 report is now available for download, covering six developer tool sectors, including ad-networks, back-end as a service, cross-platform tools, cross-promotion networks, user analytics and voice services. The findings, presented below, are based on an online survey of 3,400 developers across the globe. Developers swarm around iOS/Android but keep looking for viable…
Paranoid Android has been around for a while, and it’s always been something I’ve admired from a distance. On the surface, the custom ROM may just seem like it’s a tablet version of the OS slapped onto Android phones, but it’s not. There’s a lot going on with the project and one of the coolest…
CyanogenMod 10.1 Milestone 1 ROMs are now available for Nexus and Samsung devices. For those of you not familiar with this kind of ROM, allow for me to break down the geek/techie lingo. This Milestone 1 version is an unofficial Android 4.2 build deemed “mostly stable” and good enough for daily use, unlike the Nightly…
Ford is already known as one of the pioneers in the smart car technology thanks to its partnership with Microsoft over SYNC. Like that’s not enough, they are turning attention to the growing trend in hardware hacking by transforming vehicles into an “experimental development environment.” To that end, the company is launching the OpenXC research…
You’ve probably read “Android app on Google Play” for like a million times, which is written on the “regular” Android app download signs. Now Google is making it easier to make this sign with a brand new Google Play Badge maker tool. What makes it even cooler, is that it’s available in a total of…
Back in June, Google allowed select group of developers to respond to user comments in the Google Play Store. At that point, the capability was made available only to the big boys, and now everyone can join the party. Yup even individual developers and small teams of 1-3 people can communicate with folks who downloaded…