Tag: SDK

You've probably noticed a complete lack of iPad/iTablet/iSlate news around these parts. That's because we don't cover gadgets, nor do we cover hyperbolic crotch-grabbing fanboy speculation. But now that it's finally been announced (forever will it go down in history that we watched Steve Jobs sit in a leather chair and surf on his iPad), we can finally get down to business. The iPad, whether ...

Yep, time to fire up the code editor of your choice and get crackin' on that explosive "app market" the mobile space is all abuzz about. It seems Palm finally had enough of the paltry offerings in their App Catalog for the Pre and opened the SDK and documents to any fool crazy enough to write a list app, tip calculator, etc. Palm's blog post about this momentous occasion offers some dates for ...

StyleTap is an application that lets you run PalmOS software on Windows Mobile devices. The company has been working on a Symbian version of StyleTap since last year, and is now looking for beta testers. The test will begin on May 12th, and users can sign up by sending an email to StyleTap asking to be part of the beta. In other news, while the company hasn't exactly committed to releasing a ...

While we're guessing Microsoft would love to make Windows Mobil customers out of each and every iPhone user, that doesn't mean the company doesn't see a business opportunity in Apple's cellphone. After all, Microsoft has been selling Office software to Mac users for years, so now that Apple has provided an SDK for the iPhone, why not port Office Mobile and other Microsoft applications to the ...

So you may have heard, Apple threw a little press event today. And while we won't get into all of the gritty details (our friends at Engadget have already done a pretty good job of that), we did want to highlight a few of the more exciting announcements related to the iPhone SDK: Apple has licensed Microsoft's ActiveSync technology to enable Exchange synchronization. That means Push email, ...

Though NASA and other large enterprise institutions have previously decried the iPhone as "not enterprise ready", it appears Salesforce.com has a different opinion of the buttonless cell phone device. Even as Apple reported a substantially positive quarter, the avant-garde CRM company let it slip that they're working on adding iPhone-specific support to their hugely popular web application suite. ...

Get ready for iPhone and iPod Touch applications to roll out of the pipes early next year, an SDK is coming! We heard a rumor yesterday, but our friends over at TUAW have let us in on some exciting news from the Apple front. Apple has said that the much anticipated iPhone SDK will be released to developers by February 2008. This Software Developer Kit will allow developers to create applications ...

When Apple introduced the iPhone at this year's Macworld Expo, there was a great sigh of disappointment when Steve Jobs informed his developer community that only web-based applications would be supported on the iPhone. That is, no Software Development Kit (SDK) to create native programs. Among other things, this letdown limited developers' ability to harness the iPhone's coveted multi-touch ...

Two weeks ago we saw the first wave of third party applications for the iPhone. But because Apple has yet to open up the device and provides an API (Application Programming Interface) for software developers, making third party applications right now is not for the faint hearted or even regular developers. A couple of weeks ago in MacBreak Weekly, Leo Laporte called for Apple to open up the iPhone ...

No Apple hasn't finally given us what we want by releasing an official iPhone SDK so developers can create true apps for the phone, but that doesn't seem to be holding back enterprising hackers. Erica Sadun at our sister site The Unofficial Apple Weblog has released a basic text editor and even a screenshot app for the iPhone, while Gizmodo has MobileTerminal, a command line app that should allow ...

Adobe has released Creative Suite 3 for the masses, which means their attention can now turn to the SDKs for the developers in the audience (that's: Software Development Kit for the rest of us). After all, we can't design by built-in filters and plugins alone, can we? Mark Niemann-Ross, Adobe's Developer Evangelist, has announced on his Adobe Blog that some of the SDKs are in fact ready and ...

The Google Desktop SDK allows developers to create all sorts of gadgets and plug-ins for Google Desktop. I'm a big fan of using GOOG's desktop widgets to display some important news updates on my desktop, as well as the weather gadget, and a slick del.icio.us bookmark plug-in. This new update to the SDK brings a bunch more sample gadgets that you can build off of, with new features and API's. The ...

The new Yahoo! Messenger version 8 with voice has been brought out of beta to stir the pot with MSN Messenger, and Google Talk. Besides being able to tie into MSN Messenger contacts, the new Yahoo messenger is loaded with plug-ins and cool new features from both internal developers, and users, by using Yahoo Messengers Plug-in SDK. Top plug-ins for Yahoo Messenger include one for Coupons.com, ...

A new plug-in has just been released that lets network engineers look at the active internet nodes that are communicating with local nodes like web, email, wireless, voip, WAN and application server nodes. The tool was built so that engineers could get better grips on their data including troubleshooting, faults, restoring services, and network uptime. Through this new plug-in that accesses a ...

Microsoft is sponsoring a contest that challenges developers to create chatbots for the MSN/Windows Live Messenger network. The contest, called Invasion of the Robots, promises over $40,000 in prizes, including the grand prize, a sweet Alienware system or US$10,000 in cash. The deadline is September 15, and Judging will presumably be done by a Microsoft panel (the contest rules just say "qualified ...