Posts tagged Development
Adobe Getting Pounded with Download Requests for iPhone+iPod
0February 11, 2010
Adobe got 7 million iPhone and iPod touch download requests for Flash in December: A touch of history might be appropriate here. Back in March 2008, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen proudly proclaimed that his team was about to start coding a Flash player for the iPhone, only for his company to promptly backtrack on those words a day later.
Then, about this time last year, Apple and Adobe again announced that they were collectively working on putting the ubiquitous format on Cupertino’s mobile devices, but you won’t be surprised to hear that hasn’t born any fruit yet either. In fact, More >
NVIDIA Optimus Optimizes Laptop Battery Life
0February 11, 2010
If you think about it logically, having control over the graphics card your laptop runs on seems to make sense. NVIDIA’s new Optimus technology looks like it’s going to implement just that. Why did it take someone so long to come up with this? It is just irony at it’s finest. The idea behind this technology is that you don’t have to manually toggling between the powerful discrete GPU and the power-saving integrated chip. The software and hardware combo that NVIDIA has in the works will take care of deciding which graphics processor is best for the application or content. To provide an More >
Google Launching 1Gbps ISP Service?
0February 11, 2010
Google’s next step towards taking over all forms for communication, they plan on deploying 1Gbps fiber to select few.
The company is going to test this super high speed internet to “a small number of trial locations across the United States,” and give somewhere between 50,000 to 500,000 people an amazingly fast pipe. What’s the point of this?
- Next generation apps: We want to see what developers and users can do with ultra high-speeds, whether it’s creating new bandwidth-intensive “killer apps” and services, or other uses we can’t yet imagine.
- New deployment techniques: We’ll test new ways More >
Google Works On Voice Translation
0February 10, 2010
Google has let the news out that they are working on a voice translator phone, redefining the synergy that voice translation works. Franz Och, Google’s head of translation services has said the following: “ ”Okay, so Google has this expansive online translation service, which we all know, use, and sometimes even love. Google also has its own branded phone, with a voice recognition function that we frankly adore. So what’s a brave new age company with bottomless pockets to do but try to splice the two together into some kind of omnilingual instant translator? Speech-to-speech More >
Apple Releases iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta2 for Devs
1February 10, 2010
It looks like Apple has given registered developers a green light to download iPhone OS 3.2 (build 10M2135).
Based on initial reports it looks like the latest beta version of iPhone OS 3.2 SDK fixes some bugs and allows developers to upgrade their existing iPhone target to a Universal application that supports both iPhone and iPad.
Reports show that OS 3.2 SDK fixes the following bugs:
- FIXED: Changing an iPhone Executable’s working directory from “Build Products directory” may cause the application not to install properly with the error message “The Info.plist for application at (null) More >
Rumored HTC Scorpion Will Run Android 2.2
0February 10, 2010
Google’s Nexus One might be the king of Android phones at the moment, but if the rumors are true, then HTC is already busy planning a newer and more powerful phone. According to MobileCrunch, there’s a unknown device called the HTC Scorpion referred to as “The Dream Phone”.
The only thing that exists so far for the HTC Scorpion that we know of, is a couple leaked build files that supposedly are real. The build files refer to the HTC Scorpion as haven’t a 1.5Ghz Qualcomm QSD8672 – being reported as Froyo, and WiMax, which means it could potentially be HTC’s More >
5.1 Surround Sound & Closed Captioning Coming To Netflix
0February 9, 2010
Rumor has it that Watch Instantly fans might be seeing an upgrade, as CNET has heard news that the company will be rolling out 1080p sometime soon and 5.1 surround sound and closed captioning later this year. No information was given a Netflix’s bout timing or any other details but this could mean that the company is moving o Microsoft Silverlight Version 3 which comes with additional tweaks for adaptive streaming and hardware graphics acceleration. No information is known on how much bandwidth is needed either but considering Microsoft already uses similar technology for the 1080p More >
HTC’s New Phone ‘Incredible” Leaked
0February 8, 2010
The HTC Incredible, which first made leaked rumors back in December turns out to be the real deal. Pocket Now has released some sneak peak information on the phone. Including a brown colored version:
The phone seems to have wacky shapes in the back and is probably a prototype placeholder (or so we can hope.) Some of the specs have been released including an Android 2.1 OS with HTC Sense, running on a Snapdragon CPU. It is rumored to be running on 256mb RAM which is accompanied by a 3.5′-3.7′ WVGA screen. A leaked video was also released which can be found here. What do you guys think of More >
Game Developers Prefer Apple?
0February 7, 2010
No one would have guessed that Apple is actually winning the race among handheld game developers, the information was provided by Game Developer Research. Nineteen percent of handheld game develops now write for the iPhone and iPod touch. That number is actually double the amount of Nintendo DS and Sony PSP developers. Other interesting figures pointed out by Game Developer Research include:
• Handheld games are now 25 percent of the whole gaming market, up from 12 percent before the iPhone/iPod touch phenomenon.
• During the last three quarters, all handheld game developers are More >
Kindle Development Kit Now Available In Limited Beta
0February 7, 2010
Amazon announced a few weeks ago that they were opening up the Kindle for development and as of today they have officially started to accept requests for the Development Kit which is in limited beta. You can head over to Amazon to sign up and be a beta developer and to request the KDK. The site also has an updated Kindle Development Kit FAQs and API information for anyone who is interested.
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