RIM Clawing its Way Back

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It seems Research in Motion (RIM) the Canadian outfit who makes the BlackBerry smartphones is making something of a comeback.  Moreover, the company is doing it by offering free tablets. RIM appears to be employing a new marketing strategy that will come to an end on the 13th February.  Apparently every Android Apps developer that ports [...]

What Price Investment?

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Google is on a recruitment drive trying to expand its developer clientele.  One of the ways it does this, I understand, is via associated companies such as Tapjoy. Tapjoy apparently recently invested $5 million in just 150 developers, trying to attract them to switch to Android and start developing a greater range of Google Apps. [...]

Google Sky now Open Source

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Along with Google’s App Inventor the search engine company has decided to make its popular Google Sky open source. Sky is Google’s first astronomy application that allows you to point your mobile device at the night sky and get an instant map downloaded.  I’ve never used this particular software but I can imagine it to [...]

App Inventor now Open Source

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A project between Google and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) called App Inventor has been declared open source, I believe.  This means that anyone who wants to create and develop their own Google Apps can now do so, providing, of course, they have the Android toolset. The decision to open source App Inventor is [...]

New Style Guide Published by Google

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If you are looking to develop apps for the latest Android operating system – Ice Cream Sandwich, then Google has published a new style guide. The guide apparently has summaries of the requirements needed to create Google Apps.  These include guidelines relating to user interface capabilities and creative vision.  Other specifications include colour matching, typography [...]

Portable App Technology now Available

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Do you use an iPad but want to run some Android or Google Apps? Until now, you could not do this, but I believe that a new technology has been developed that will allow you to now use your favourite apps on any platform. I presume this technology is similar to the emulator software that [...]

What Makes an Application Worth Getting?

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With millions of Google Apps, applications for the iPhone and so on to choose from, how do you know which one is worth getting?  I know I can get confused, particularly since many are essentially either doing the same or similar job or providing a similar sort of entertainment.  Yet, they can range in price [...]

Are iPad Publishers Fighting Back?

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Many of the apps used on the iPad are now created and published by newspapers and other similar organisations. When they first started doing this, publishers believed it would revolutionise the way we all read our newspapers.  While reading online was a growing phenomenon, reading on an iPad offered a mobile alternative. However, I believe [...]