Improvements to be enabled via DX12 and Vulkan APIs Graphics cards are currently “not living up to their full potential,” says AMD, and the company is adamant that the forthcoming DX12 and Vulkan APIs will change that. Specifically, the red team says that these APIs will be able to take advantage of AMD’s asynchronous compute engines (ACE), which are inherent to AMD’s GCN architecture...
Research In Motion announced on Thursday that it has released an update to its BlackBerry 10 developer toolkits. The tools. are available for free from RIM’s developer site but are currently still in beta, the company said. The latest enhancements include new APIs, for allowing BlackBerry 10 applications to interact with one another, and Push APIs for sending notifications to end users...
I’ve been using Spotify’s iPhone application on my iPad for as long as I can remember, and while it works well and gets the job done, I’d love to see a Spotify app built specifically for the larger device. And I’m pretty certain I’m not alone on this. Thankfully, Spotify has revealed that it already has an iPad application in the works, and its launch isn’t too far away. In an...
Bandwidth hungry mobile apps may soon come equipped with "turbocharge" buttons, Verizon Wireless announced. The company is aiming to publish an API during the third quarter of 2012 that can then be implemented into mobile apps by developers. The boost, of course, will come at a small, undisclosed fee, but the new turbo apps will have priority when Verizon's network is congested. In...
After restructuring their corporate hierarchy earlier this year, Twitter executives are now attempting to broaden the appeal of the popular networking website through a number of key acquisitions. According to a preliminary report from The Wall Street Journal, Twitter is now looking to purchase TweetDeck, a widely-used cross-platform Twitter client, for a whopping $50 million. For many...
In June, Apple introduced an API into their iOS 4.0 software as part of their mobile device management (MDM) initiative. The new addition would allow third-party MDM applications like Airwatch or Afaria to check for unauthorized modifications to the system files. Apple’s jailbreak detection API granted MDM applications direct access to the iOS information, which, needless to say, did...