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Is This What Android 4: Ice Cream Sandwich Looks Like?

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12 Aug 2011

Google has been awfully protective of their latest version of Android, but thanks to the folks over at RootzWiki and Android Police, we may have our first ever glimpse at Ice Cream Sandwich. As always, keep those grains of salt handy — they claim their source is solid, but there’s no guarantee this isn’t just [...]

HTML5 vs. Native Apps: the Google Plus Thread

In: web resources

8 Jul 2011

Over on Google’s new social networking service Google Plus, Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur started a great discussion on the differences between HTML5 mobile Web apps and native iOS and Android apps. The question he raised is what can you not do in a mobile Web app? You can’t do video capture, for instance, or [...]

The Orchard Partners With Songpier To Make Music App Creation Easy

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6 Jul 2011

Music distributor The Orchard has just partnered with app creation service Songpier, making the service available to all of its artists and label customers. Songpier is a German app creation service from startup pierlane GmbH that launched in public beta in June. The service streamlines the process of making music apps (I made an app [...]

A New Reason to Jailbreak: Custom Widgets in iOS 5′s Notifications Center

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14 Jun 2011

In Apple’s next mobile operating system iOS 5, there are now integrated widgets for core apps like stocks and weather available in the operating system’s new Notifications Center. This Android-like drop-down list of updates, accessible by swiping down from the top of the screen, alerts you to things like new emails, missed calls, voicemails and [...]

Facebook Acquires Snaptu to Bring Social Networking to Feature Phones

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21 Mar 2011

Facebook has acquired Israeli startup Snaptu, a creator of simple mobile applications for feature phones, for an estimated $70 million. Snaptu’s technology is designed to bring web service such as Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn to almost any phone through a series of applications it has designed. The company’s Java-based apps replicate many of the features [...]


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