Month: September 2011
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Running Windows 8 inside VirtualBox
Small step-by-step guide on how to install and run Windows 8 Developer Preview under VirtualBox.
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First Google+ APIs released: read-only people and activitites
Chris Chabot announced the new Google+ APIs: I’m super excited about how the Google+ project brings the richness and nuance of real life sharing to software, and today we’re announcing our first step towards bringing this to your apps as well by launching the Google+ public data APIs. The APIs are available at Google+ Platform…
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Wunderlist for Android is going native, drops Appcelerator Titanium Mobile
Appcelerator’s approach to the Android platform has made another victim, a significant one: 6Wunderkinder’s popular Wunderlist ditched Titanium Mobile (TM) for Android, and is now a native app. “(…) Wunderlist is now native – smaller, faster and more stable.” Matthew Bostock, 6Wunderkinder’s blog Translated, Wunderlist got rid of TM’s biggest problems: Size: even the smallest…
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Apple is trying to recover the stolen/lost iPhone 5 using TV Ads
An Apple employee lost a working prototype of the upcoming iPhone 5 in a bar, and someone took it home. Here is the TV Ad Apple made* on this subject.
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HTML5 Mobile Apps for the Enterprise
Jonathan Stark, blogger and writer of various books (Building Android Apps with HTML(…), Building iPhone Apps (…) without Objective-C among others), compares various approaches to Mobile Enterprise development: Native Apps, Web Apps and Hybrid Apps (PhoneGap, Titanium et al.): (…) As the mobile enterprise continues to boom and hardware complexity grows with a wide range…
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Now that WebOS died, which is the best development crossplatform for iOS, Android, RIM and WP7?
Yes, the excellent WebOS is defunct, and it will never be the mainstream player as, at least technically, it deserved. For all of us developing for the mobile world that don’t have the time or budget to develop natively in all the mainstream platforms, its one less player to target. Myself, personally, am deciding/evaluating available options for…