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Microsoft makes appeal to iOS developers

by Dana Franklin (May 5th, 2011)

Microsoft hopes to lure iOS developers to Windows Phone 7. A new website published by the company earlier this year now offers guides and testimonials specifically designed to entice iOS developers to transform their iPhone apps into Windows Phone compatible software. Currently, Microsoft finds ...

Adobe Nav for iPad and Photoshop video demo

by Dana Franklin (Apr 17th, 2011)

John Nack, Principal Product Manager at Adobe, posted a video demo of Adobe Nav for iPad on his blog Saturday morning. Adobe Nav is one of the first apps to showcase the new tablet integration features included with the software maker's upcoming Creative Suite version 5.5 (CS5.5). The video ...

iOS 4.3 Beta 2 ready for download

by Erica Sadun (Jan 19th, 2011)

Apple posts beta. Beta by Apple. Do you like green eggs and beta? Will you download over here? Or will you download over there? You will not download over here. You cannot download over there. The servers are all crazy there. You cannot download betas there. I will download with my ...

GameSalad announces GameSalad Direct, publishing model outside of Apple's dev program

by Mike Schramm (Oct 12th, 2010)

We've posted about GameSalad here before -- the company offers up a third-party development and publishing solution that allows anyone, even non-coders, to jump into the GS SDK, make a game, and then quickly publish it out to the web or platforms like Apple's App Store. The company has been ...

iOS 4.2 SDK beta 3 available for download

by Erica Sadun (Oct 12th, 2010)

Apple has posted an updated beta for the iOS 4.2 SDK. iOS 4.2 is expected to debut "in November" for general consumption. If you are part of the developer program, you can head on over to the dev center now, authenticate with your credentials and download the newest release. As always, beta SDKs ...

Game Center gets a new look

by Mike Schramm (Jul 15th, 2010)

Mobile Crunch has posted a few pictures of Apple's Game Center app (still only available to developers and therefore still under NDA), and it appears that Apple is still working on the look and feel of the app. Previously, they were going with the dark blue look you can see above on the left ...

4.0.1 SDK ready for download

by Erica Sadun (Jul 15th, 2010)

Upgraded your iPhone and iPad to 4.0.1 and 3.2.1? You will not be able to develop for those devices until you download the newly posted 4.0.1 SDK from Apple's developer website. This is a production version of the SDK and should be installed separately from the beta 4.1 SDK that was announced ...

iOS 4.1 SDK Beta 1 ready for download

by Erica Sadun (Jul 14th, 2010)

Developers start your engines! Apple has just posted the first beta of iOS 4.1 at its iPhone Developer website. The new beta includes firmware for the iPhone 3G and later and the iPod touch 2G and later. Further details about the beta and its capabilities lie behind an ongoing nondisclosure wall, ...

BusinessInsider insists Android is the new Windows. Again.

by TJ Luoma (Jul 8th, 2010)

There's an old saying, "When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail." For Henry Blodget of Business Insider, perhaps we should change it to "When all you have is a comparison between Windows and Mac OS from the 1980s, every situation looks like a repeat." In an article entitled ...

Poll: What are your feelings about iAds?

by Erica Sadun (Jun 11th, 2010)

Hey TUAW's Developer Brain Trust! For many of you WWDC is just wrapping up, and you're now probably hanging around in airports bored and checking on e-mail, visiting web sites. We thought it would be a great time to offer you something to think about. Now that you've been exposed to iAds and are ...

WWDC 2010: Beta 5 ready for download

by Erica Sadun (Jun 7th, 2010)

Happy dub-dub everyone! The smell of new technology is in the air and we are practically breathless, we tell you, with happy anticipation. Already, Apple's Developer Site has begun its updates and we are just as excited as you are for the 4.0 Golden Master candidate and all the new developer ...

AdMob releases iPad SDK

by Michael Rose (Jun 2nd, 2010)

The Google-owned AdMob advertising network wants to make it easier for marketers to leverage the power of iPad (and also stay ahead of Apple's impending iAds frameworks in the process). The company announced today that its iPad App SDK is available for developers; this unified environment works ...

Rumor for developers, developers, developers! Steve Ballmer to present at WWDC?

by Sang Tang (May 27th, 2010)

Barron's reports, you decide: According to Trip Chowdry, an analyst with Global Equities Research, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will have seven minutes of stage time at WWDC 2010. [Wait, what now? –Ed.] According to Chowdry, Ballmer's topic will be Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft's ...

Rumor: Apple building Facebook into iPhone OS

by Mike Schramm (May 14th, 2010)

Business Insider says a source has told them that Apple is working on integrating Facebook directly into the next iPhone OS. This would mean the use of Facebook Connect to bring contacts directly into the phone (which we've heard as a rumor before, and which would make sense, considering that the ...

Apple spurs an antitrust investigation

by Dave Caolo (May 3rd, 2010)

According to the New York Post, The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are negotiating which of them will launch an inquiry into a clause in the iPhone OS 4 SDK that bans the porting of software originally written for Adobe's Flash, Sun's Java or Microsoft's ...