All the stories tagged with development
Sony XPERIA Z Tablet With Stock Android And Unlocked, For Development
05/17/2013, The Sony XPERIA Z Tablet is going to hit U.S shores by month’s end, but Sony has just announced that its flagship tablet could be unlocked and loaded with a stock Android OS for developers who want to take the [...]
Android Developers Get Awesome Tools
05/15/2013, At Google I/O 2013, Google has announced an updated set of tools that I find particularly interesting. First, there the new Android Studio IDE (integrated development environment) which makes Android development more agreeable and also more productive by showing a [...]
Activision Shows Next-Gen Tech At GDC With Impressive Visuals
03/28/2013, The next-generation of video game consoles will usher in some amazing visuals, which we already caught a glimpse of during Sony’s PlayStation 4 unveiling. Activision’s R&D department took center stage yesterday during the company’s GDC panel called “next-generation character rendering,” which [...]
Steve Balmer rally developers around Windows 8 at BUILD
10/30/2012, This week, Microsoft is holding its BUILD developer conference. Steve Balmer (Microsoft’s CEO) went on stage to demonstrate himself what Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 were about. He did a really good job rallying the Windows 8 developers (arguably [...]
Amazon GameCircle Gives Developers Access to Amazon Customers and New APIs
07/11/2012, Amazon just launched GameCircle, a new service for game developers that gives some social abilities to games via leaderboards which keep tabs with everyone’s scores and makes things a little more competitive. On an individual basis, GameCircle will also track [...]
Qualcomm pitches Snapdragon S4 and S4 Pro to developers at Uplinq
06/27/2012, Today is rich in development news with Google IO (San Francisco) and Uplinq (San Diego) happening at the same time in California. Both overlap on the Android front, but Qualcomm had a message of its own to developers who attended [...]
Apple Siri Request Sent From Non-iPhone 4S devices
11/14/2011, An developer has reverse-engineered how the iPhone 4S talks to the Siri servers, and has successfully sent requests from a non-iPhone device. In case you don’t know, Siri works by using a three-steps methods: 1/voice recording (on the phone) 2/voice [...]
NVIDIA Developer Program for Windows 8
09/13/2011, NVIDIA Developer Program - NVIDIA has announced that it is starting its Windows 8 Developer Program which will include (free?) Windows 8 developer tools for ARM and Intel X86 architectures
Diffbot API uses visual learning to parse web content
08/25/2011, Diffbot making its visual learning application programming interface (API) available to developers who want to create apps that need to understand the structure of web pages in an efficient way. Traditionally, developers who wanted to understand a web page would [...]
Android Fragmentation: a real problem, developers say
04/04/2011, Google said at the previous Google IO that Android is not *that* fragmented, but many developers -86%- (according to Fortune and 250 developers surveyed) think that Android fragmentation is a real problem. First, let’s provide some context: developers bump into [...]
Sony Develops A Single Wire Interface Technology
08/20/2010, Electrical components in general might not be that interesting news, but Sony’s development of a single wire interface technology is rather interesting. The new design replaces the 20-odd cables that are usually found inside mobile phones that provide power, control [...]
Intel Starts Atom Developer Million Dollar Development Fund
03/01/2010, Intel just announced that it has created the Atom Developer Million Dollar Development Fund whose goal is to accelerate the rate of innovation on its Atom platforms. This is another tool that the Intel Atom Developer Program can use to [...]
Microsoft to court the best iPhone developers? You bet!
08/14/2009, Microsoft has been helping iPhone developers switch to WinMo The Zune HD is a very powerful handheld, much more so than the current iPod Touch, and probably more so than the upcoming iPod Touch (based on the iPhone 3GS hardware). [...]
