Google Play is slowly gaining on Apple's App Store. In fact, it now has more than 600,000 applications available for download. However, the most noticeable difference between the two mobile marketplaces is how applications are submitted and accepted. Apple keeps a close eye on the apps that are submitted to the App Store and has a long drawn out approval process. Meanwhile, Google Play...
Earlier this year, there was uproar when Fez designer Phil Fish said modern Japanese games suck. Braid's Jonathan Blow and Mega Man master Keiji Inafune even backed him up with explicit agreement. If fans were angry about it though, the developers themselves seem to be aware of it and wanting to make it better. The newest Famitsu devoted ten full pages to an interview with a number of...
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...
Microsoft just announced Windows Phone 8 during a platform preview press event in San Francisco. Windows Phone Program manager Joe Belfiore said that he's excited to talk about what will be coming to Windows Phone "this fall." Belfiore also said the platform will have a "shared core" with the company's Windows 8 operating system. Internet Explorer 10 will be built into Windows Phone 8...
We had suspicions Facebook would launch its new App Center today, and right on cue, the new service is available within the Facebook mobile apps for Android and iOS, and within Facebook in your web browser — if you're in the United States. Announced back in May, App Center is open to mobile apps that were originally native to Facebook, or those that connect to the social network for...
4 out of 5 A Microsoft blog post that was published — and then quickly pulled — yesterday, May 30, reveals that the company's first Windows 8 Release Preview is scheduled to arrive today. The post was dated May 31, but seems...
Having promised that all Xperia smartphones released in 2011 would get the Ice Cream Sandwich update this spring, Sony has released an Android 4.0 preview beta ROM for the Xperia Arc S, the Xperia Neo V, and the Xperia Ray. The update follows the release of an alpha ROM that was issued for the same devices back in December, and it introduces a number of new features and improvements....
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Flash isn’t officially dead, but today’s announcement from Adobe that they’re ending development Flash Player for mobile devices isn’t exactly a good sign for supporters of the technology. Mobile rules right now, and while I wouldn’t yet go so far as to talk about Post-PC this and that, I certainly would use mobile as a barometer of where the computing industry is – and where it’s...
Google has posted a notice on its blog that encourages Android developers to prepare their applications for the upcoming release of the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. The company says that while apps developed for Honeycomb currently run exclusively on tablets, that won’t be the case under Ice Cream Sandwich, and so developers must prepare their applications for smaller displays...