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Want An In-App Notification Center? There’s A SDK For That
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Today, mobile promotion and discovery service AppsFire is launching a new toolkit for developers called App Booster. Meant to boost user engagement and retention, two of the toughest challenges developers face today, the App Booster SDK (software development kit) introduces a suite of tools for things like in-app notifications, user...
iOS 6: what to expect - and not to expect from Apple's WWDC 2012
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What will Apple's Tom Cook reveal about Apple's updates to its iOS operating system, Apple TV and new desktops and laptops?What should you expect in Monday's WWDC keynote from Apple, and what should you not expect? From talking to developers and other sources, here are our predictions.You should get…Apple TV:...
Insert Coin: Etcher, the fully functional Etch A Sketch iPad case
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In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you'd like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with "Insert Coin" as the subject line. Visions of the iPad as a modern-day Etch A Sketch have...
TokBox SDK Brings Video Chat To iOS Apps
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Just over a year ago, video chat startup TokBox shuttered its consumer application and began focusing exclusively on its platform strategy — using its technology to enable video chat on other websites. Today, it’s expanding that effort into mobile. Specifically, TokBox is announcing a software development kit allowing iOS developers...
Apple Is Rejecting Apps That Use Dropbox
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Apple is rejecting applications that use Dropbox, an online storage system, because it violates rules against sending users to a new purchase, according to a support thread on Dropbox. If the user of the new app doesn't have Dropbox installed, it redirects the user to the web-based version of Dropbox...
Windows Phone 8 SDK leaks, details developer improvements for Microsoft's next mobile OS
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Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 Software Development Kit (SDK) has leaked out onto the web ahead of its expected debut. Chinese site WPXAP has posted links to download the SDK and accompanying documents that provide additional details into the development options for Windows Phone 8. We're digging into the documents...
Tizen 1.0 Larkspur arrives, fuels your open-source phone dreams
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The unveiling of Tizen left many mobile open-source aficionados wondering when the OS would reach its all-important 1.0 status. The answer is now: the coalition between Intel, Panasonic, Samsung and a raft of carriers has posted the first non-beta release in both source code and software development kit forms....
Feature: Exclusive: building native iOS apps with RubyMotion
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In 2007, software developer Laurent Sansonetti launched an open source software project called MacRuby. It aimed to build a Ruby interpreter on top of the Objective-C runtime, providing a seamless bridge between Ruby and OS X "Cocoa" ecosystem—and it succeeded. Now Sansonetti hopes to do something similar for iOS....
Ouya Android games console blasts past $2.3m funding on Kickstarter
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The challenge now is to deliver on the expectations of its 19k early backersUS startup Ouya has attracted $2.3m of pledges for its Android-based games console, less than 24 hours after launching its campaign on crowdfunding website Kickstarter.Nearly 19,000 people have backed the project at the time of writing, and...
BoxPAY Debuts Its Carrier Billing Platform For Smart TVs
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Betting big on the future monetization opportunities to be found in the “smart TV” ecosystem is boxPAY, a company which is now bringing the carrier billing option to TV apps and services. With boxPAY, consumers can pay for Smart TV apps or make in-app purchases by charging those purchases to...
Here's Facebook's Official Statement On The New 'Want' Button (FB)
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Facebook declined to deny to Business Insider that it will roll out a new "Want" button to sit alongside its oft-used "Like" thumbs-up signifier. We noted last week that code for a "Want" button was released to the Facebook Javascript software development kit on Wednesday. A Want button would be...
6 Features That Make Android Jelly Bean Better Than iOS, Windows Phone and Blackberry
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Google announced the next version of Android, dubbed Jelly Bean, today, and it is jam-packed with new goodies for developers and consumers to play with. Google is rolling out the over-the-air Android 4.1 update in mid-July, and developers will get the software development kit Wednesday at Google I/O. Google is...
Oracle Releases Java Development Kits for OS X as Work on Java SE 7 for Mac Continues
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Back in late 2010, Apple announced that it would cease supporting Java for OS X, with Steve Jobs noting that Apple was always a version behind that being distributed by Sun/Oracle, which handled Java for all other platforms. Confusion about whether Oracle would step into the Java void created by...
5 questions with the creator of the first iPad-made iOS game
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Rui Viana isn’t a full-time app developer and he hasn’t learned how to use Apple’s iOS software development kit. Yet last week his newly released iPad game, Cargo-Bot, managed to become of the top 10 most downloaded iPad apps in the U.S., with more than 200,000 downloads in over a week....
Buddy lands $1M to help developers manage apps across platforms
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Buddy co-founders Jeffrey MacDuff and Dave McLauchlan are helping mobile developers build apps faster and cheaper Buddy Platform today is announcing that it has secured $1 million in seed financing, and rolled its service for managing apps across various platforms. Investors in the Kirkland company include San Francisco’s Transmedia Capital and...
GREE takes its mobile social games network global in open beta
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Japanese giant hopes to take its domestic success to the WestWith revenues of around £348m in the first quarter of 2012 alone, GREE may be the biggest social games company in the world. What about Zynga? Its revenues were around £204m for the same period.All of GREE's revenues came from...
Mobile Payments Startup Jumio Takes On Card.io With Credit Card Scanning Toolkit For App Developers
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Mobile payments and identity verification company Jumio is introducing its Netswipe Mobile SDK today, which allows developers to add credit card scanning functionality to their mobile applications. The SDK (software development kit), is available now for iOS, but an Android version is coming soon, the company says. To jump-start usage, Jumio is...
PlayPhone enables instant multiplayer across Android and iOS devices (exclusive)
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PlayPhone is announcing a technology today that will enable instant multiplayer gaming across iOS and Android devices. The technology will be part of the company’s mobile social gaming network and it is now available for developers to implement in their games. San Jose, Calif.-based PlayPhone says it will enable...
Google Boss Takes Stand in Oracle Trial, Dodges Android Questions
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Larry Page entertains the crowd. (niallkennedy/Flickr) Google CEO Larry Page took the stand on Wednesday during the company’s ongoing court battle with Oracle over the use of the Java programming language on Google’s Android operating system. Though he responded to questioning with mostly evasive answers, Page fared better than Oracle...
Android SDK updated, emulator now natively supports x86
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Google updated its software development kit (SDK) to revision 17 today, bringing a few new features and plenty of bug fixes. While developers would do well to check the source link for the full changelog, what's most exciting here for Android enthusiasts is that x86 is now supported natively...
Fake ID holders beware: facial recognition service Face.com can now detect your age
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Facial recognition platform Face.com could foil the plans of all those under-age kids looking to score some booze. Fake IDs might not fool anyone for much longer, because Face.com’s new application programming interface (API) can detect a person’s age by scanning a photo. With its facial recognition system, Face.com has built...
VeriFone launches Square rival SAIL on Android
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VeriFone is taking its newly launched SAIL mobile payment product to Android smartphones after debuting on the iPhone last month. The move helps VeriFone better compete with Square, an early mobile payment leader and PayPal Here, which are both available on iPhones and Android. VeriFone is also making it easy...
Overwolf opens its in-game app store to publishers and code-savvy gamers
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Gaming startup Overwolf is launching an in-game app store that allows players to contribute their own virtual items to their favorite titles while giving publishers the opportunity to make virtual-transaction revenue from existing releases. The new offering from the Tel Aviv-based company provides a novel way to retrofit existing games so...
New Google Drive SDK supports third-party Android and iOS apps
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One of the many rumors we heard about Google Drive before the cloud storage service's eventual release was support for third-party app integration via a software development kit. That didn't come to pass in the first version of the SDK, but that all changes today with version 2 —...
Aviary bringing photo-editing tech to Windows Phone apps
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Aviary, a photo-editing tech startup backed by investors including Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, is placing a bet on Nokia and Windows Phone with plans to expand its platform to the Microsoft mobile operating system — making it possible for software developers to incorporate its photo-editing technology into Windows Phone apps....
Qualcomm to deliver Snapdragon SDK to Android developers
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At this year's Uplinq conference, Qualcomm hit Android developers with some exciting news. In the coming months, the chip maker will deliver a Snapdragon software development kit (SDK) that will provide devs with access to the "next-generation technology and features" embedded in its processors. Through APIs, the kit will...
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Android SDK for better hardware integration
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Qualcomm is releasing a software development kit that it hopes will help Android developers take advantage of the Snapdragon processor line. The SDK includes a set of APIs for the Snapdragon S4 8960 processor, and Qualcomm says it will be expanding to more of the Snapdragon line over time....
Microsoft Gives Windows Azure Amazonian Facelift
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Microsoft's cloud is one the move What is Microsoft Windows Azure? That was never an easy question to answer. And it has only become more difficult now that Microsoft has unveiled several new additions to its online service. The short version is that Windows Azure is an online service for...
As Zynga’s stock lockup ends, Game Closure steals a mobile game expert
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Zynga’s lockup on the ability for employees to sell stock in the aftermath of its initial public offering expires today. That may explain why a smaller company, Game Closure, has been able to recruit a prominent mobile gaming expert from Zynga. Game Closure is announcing today that it has hired...
RIM takes the wraps off BlackBerry 10 OS, shows off camera and keyboard
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RIM showed off elements of its upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system at the BlackBerry World 2012 conference Tuesday. The QNX-based BB10 will include some slick new gesture-based navigations, a new keyboard, and some interesting camera functionality. The new software development kit also includes features that should make porting and...
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